Went back in the mountains

NCHillbilly

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Had one of the best days of native trout fishing yesterday that I've had in a long time. Went way back into the Smokies and hit a couple-three creeks. Two of them I'd never fished before, and one I haven't fished in a long time. The first creek was remote, to say the least. It also was teeming with specks. I caught an eight-inch speck on both of my first two casts, in the same hole. The next couple of hours were a speckfest of epic proportions, caught probably 50-60, with most of them being over 7 inches. :cool:

Unfortunately, I forgot my camera on that creek. And after hiking a couple miles and climbing down into a deep gorge, I wasn't going back to get it. I would have loved to have had some pics of those specks, though.

After climbing back up out of the gorge, I went on to another creek. I was catching mostly rainbows and browns at first, then started getting into the specks.

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You gotta stop and admire the sights sometimes.

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Elk tracks on the creekbank. This is many, many miles from anywhere I've seen elk sign before, they're apparently spreading out all the time.

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Back to the truck tired and hungry. Time for lunch.

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After I ate, I hiked back into another remote little creek and caught plenty of nice specks until both the sun and my energy levels were sinking low.

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Had a great day, and quitting time came way too soon.
 

northgeorgiasportsman

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Awesome man! I was thinking about you while I was frying up my streamside burger.
 

NCHillbilly

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Awesome man! I was thinking about you while I was frying up my streamside burger.

What's the odds on a bacon cheeseburger with those same obscure chips? You would love that first creek.
 

northgeorgiasportsman

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What's the odds on a bacon cheeseburger with those same obscure chips? You would love that first creek.

No kidding, I gotta show this to my wife.

We had to really work on the specs. Of course, we got there right after daybreak and were off the stream by lunch. So the bugs didn't start hatching until we had already fished a bunch. We fished a long ways up past where the trail leaves the creek and the creek starts to live up to its name.
 

antharper

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Sounds like a heck of a day , nice photos !
 

jbogg

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Epic day and nice pics! It seems I have a lot left to learn about dining in the wilderness. That's doing it right!
 

Bream Pole

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beautiful thanks for posting remember when I used to have some energy for that sort of thing
 

Browning Slayer

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Awesome pics!!:cool::cool:
 

dawg2

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That is the best type of fishing!
 
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