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..