July Hiwassee River

Doug and I finally had a day off at the same time. This does not happen much since the both of us are pretty much it for fishing coverage in the store. We made a day of it and floated the Hiwassee in my boat. The fishing was not overly good however for our first time floating that river we did okay. Not to mention the hordes of recreational floaters that we had to deal with. We both managed some stockers and proably could have boated quite a few, however I didn't want to stop much because I did not know how long it would take to get to the take out. The float was a blast and as it was the most technical rowing that I have done to date. I actually didn't fish much because I had such a good time rowing.

June Little River

Had the day off and ran up to visit with Steve Moore and Matt Kulp who are in charge of the fisheries in GSMNP. I also had to pick up some maps from them for the store. When I walked in to the office Dan a fellow TU member was talking to Matt. They had apparently just gottn done working on one of the streams in the park. It was around noon so I talked Dan into going fishing up on Little River for a couple of hours. We fished above Huskey Branch and had good luck with Yellow Stimulators and a prince dropper.