redneck_billcollector
Purveyor Of Fine Spirits
Spent a few days in the mountains of N. Ga. scouting out future camp sites for both hunting and fishing. I logged the off pavement trails I traveled on and put in just over 200 miles on FS Trails, some of which were apparently not maintained. Marked around 2 dozen camp sites that were rather remote and off the beaten path, scouted out some decent higher altitude blue line brook trout streams. Saw a lot of deer and not many deer hunters at all, the acorns a literally falling like rain in many parts of the mountains. And what I really enjoyed was finding a lot of rather massive Eastern White Pines (I used to cruise timber and well, love old growth trees). One last observation, they need rain, the blue line streams were really, and I mean really low. It is sad, one of the streams I used to catch brook trout on years ago used to have beaver ponds in its upper reaches and they would keep them flowing even during the worst of droughts, it appears they have all been torn out by someone who wrongly thinks beaver dams and trout don't mix. I encountered one beaver dam that has been torn out in the last year. I talked with a guide I know up there and he verified that there are some locals who think beavers eat trout and somehow harm the population....you can't fix dumb.