Fantastic Doubles to finnish the day!!! Best ever Stripper!!!

Musky in the French Broad

Jon's 20in. tiger Musky on the French Broad 10/27/2012

He pulled this fish out of our best hole fishing upstream with a green bass jig, bumpin it over rocks back toward him. He caught a one pound bass right before this fish taged his lure on the next cast. Only two fish caught in that boat. (Mike did miss a nice fish that pulled drag)

toothy critter!

Tuckaseegee Delayed Harvest Trout fishing Oct 2012

Nice 14in. Rainbow on a wooly bugger

Fighting the coldfront!!! Mid October 20th Float on the French Broad

Cory's one fish of the day!

My one littler fish of the day.

Caught on a tan deer hair jig with green tail trailers.

Mid Sept. French Float....

I love In-line spinners!!!Meps #4 gold blade.

Caught a few on the green jigs

Today we caught less fish from the trip before but, the fish on average were alittle larger. I picked up the first fish from the bank before the boat hit the water, i was fixing my line and hooked a one pound er. Within the first mile we caught the big fish for the day tad under 3lb. I'd say. It  took an meps in-line #4 gold blade spinner about 6 1/2 feet from the boat. I live for the short strikes near the boat by big fish, it was really similar to a fish i caught on the same bait up-north. I think we might have caught around a dozen small mouth bass and one baby muskie. River being alitter higher i think made for as tougher bite and seemed that only the bigger fish were feeding tight to cover.  Great fall views of Biltmore!! cool river to paddle.

Tuck Delayed Harvest 10/7

Big Fish of the day +16" Brook Trout on the Tuck!!

Took a dark olive wooley bugger in the top of the run.

Got up this moring and decided to do a little float on the Tuck since it's the start to delayed harvest season in Cullowhee! I floated about 3 mile and met up with Swerve to the Curve!! We fished two runs together, with him catchin 4 nice trout. I ended a tough day on the fiver with 7 Trout. The best part for me was using my NEW Orivs Hellios Flyrod!! It was smooth like butter that handles this big brookie well..

10 hr. float on the French Broad River Sept. 15th 2012



Found this nice smallie in a rocky hole near the shore.  This bronzeback wacked a #4 mepps in-line spinner about 5ft from the boat.. We caught at least 6-7 fish around this size in the rocky spots.  



Cory's first Chunky fish caught on a jig with kicker trailer legs.

 Cory and I floated a new section of the French Broad from the airport down to Bent Creek. (we think around 5-6 miles section. ) It took us almost 10hr. putting in at 8am and pullin out around 6pm, fishing hard all day long. We didn't start picking up fish until a mile or so down when the river started to get rocky with ledges and runs with holes. We started picking them up with green/brown hair and reg. jigs with, pumpkin kicker trailers legs. The fish were feeding good and would pick up the jigs up quickly on the bounce and drop. WE both missed our biggest fish of the day (at least solid 4-5 pound fish) that jumped out of the drink and thru our jigs back at us. I was fight my biggest fish in 3-4 feet of water standing next to the boat. It's just good to know you can trick em and see em jump and go crazy. Al in all we ended the day with 30+ fish in the boat all smallies and one rockbass.

chunky bass

Pigeon River near Canton NC Sept. 1st 2012

Smashed the green deer hair jig!! Tight to cover..

Tiger stripes...

Green jig in the rocks...

crawdad lure

felt like a solid 3lb. small mouth bass

Hammocks Beach SP, Swansboro, NC 8/20-8/22

Great Battle in the surf with my casting Ugly stick! 1st cast into the surf hole with a 4 1/2in. paddle tailed mullet swimbait on a jig head. This fish was well out of slot limit and was quickly released!! We are guessin about 34-35in 17-20 lb.

This was our home for 3 nights...so peaceful. The drum hole was right up front.

The beach to ourselves, this was the sight most days!!

Old Drum Fishing on the lower Nuese!! Aug 22nd 2012

This Massive Red Drum ate a "really Fresh" mullet head on a hand tied leader.

Measured out to be 43 3/4 inches !!!

Jon Fought the fish and I helped land it at the boat.

Easy Farm pond fishing!!! In Chatham Co. 8/2012

Shakey head with blue/plurple fleck worm long tailed, seen that fish wake from half way across the pond to my worm.

multiple species of massive bream, shellcracker i think.?

First cast Fish on s topwater Cricket popper!!

1st Cast Heddon baby bass with prop tail!!!

Family Fun in Michigan Up-north...4th of July week 2012

Best Family Reunion Ever!! Good times with lots of big smallies!!!

Biggest fish caught that week by my uncle Glenn!!! Great catch..