North Carolina Adventure Access: June 2013

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Rob's Huge Brookie!

1st cast at the ledge!!!

I was lucky enough to paddle up just as Rob hooked this beauty and Mark netted it up!!!

It looked like a big bass flopping in the water, but turned out to be a huge pig Trout..

Mid- Saturday Float On the Tuck..

She often takes naps in the boat, I tease that she's just a counter balance.

Jackson co. line

Brookie on the crawler.

Little smallie on a worm, fights line a 2 lb. trout.

Fishing Update:
My Fiancé just landed a job and moved up to the Mountain's near Asheville were I have been living and working for two years in the public school system. She brought some good fishing luck with her, including landing a 18 1/2 inch Brown on the first trip out to the river (and first cast too). Her Grandmother purchased fishing waders as a gift for graduating from UNC... and she twisted my arm to take her out fishing. Since then we have floated a 3 mile section of the Tuck twice over the last two Saturday's. It's be a great fishing. All trips catching lots of nice trout. The first time we floated we caught over 25 trout in 3 hr's time, only keeping the gut hooked or larger trout to eat, most being rainbows. Yesterday we were able to catch 15-18 trout over the same period of time, with more Brookies mixed in the bag. We have been using a variety of methods to put fish in the boat, including fly-fishing (mostly woolly buggers), in-line spinner's (silver and white with black dots working well), and bumping some worms on the bottom. All have been somewhat equally effective baits to catch fish. We have boated a couple smallies and rock bass on the worms too. With all the recent rains the rivers been a little murky and high so picking a time when the west-fork is not running is best for paddling and fishing. We have been floating mid-day when the west-fork cut off at 8am that morning and drops in the delayed harvest waters by noon.