I finally caught my first trout Saturday. I went on a guided float trip last fall and caught a ton of fish, but this was my first since I have been going by myself. I have been tying all my own flies and trying different patterns and it payed off. I caught it on a barb less #14 Adams, that I just learned to tie last week. The fish was caught on a C&R stream in Avery county and was right at 10" long. The fish gave a good fight and took off just as fast when I got the hook out. It was a great trade off to the crazy morning we had getting to the stream. It took 3hrs to get 1.5hrs away. We first got lost on some Forest Service Roads and then we went to far on the trail. I have always had a great time going fishing but this makes it all worth it.
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Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
I'll try to get a trip report up in the next couple of days. I just got back from a week in Utah. This grayling came from Utah's Uinta mountains. This was perhaps the most fun dry fly fishing I have ever had. This picture just doesn't do this fish, or the experience, justice.