miller's may meandering #1

[jeff]

these are some photos of the first leg of my 12 day fishing sojourn.
these are in burke county, upper creek and catawba river.

this is mark bowen teasing some trout with his hump-dis-hopper.

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campsite on upper creek

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creek scenes

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typical wild rainbow we caught in the creek

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interesting bedrock formation found on the creek near the cable area...

[jeff]

this one gives you some perspective...that's mark in the top right
corner of the rock face.

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streamside

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end of the day, last pool, near chestnut mt. falls. we walked back,
following a trail up over raven rock cliffs shown in an earlier photo...

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the rest of these are of the catawba river tailwater below lake
james...this was the first of the nice brown trout i caught.

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one of the faster water stretches

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my friend walt winter, owner of ezflyfish.com and wilson creek
outfitters in morganton, nc... and a decent oarsman as well...

[jeff]

end of the day, looking south toward the takeout near a bridge. end of
this leg of the trip...

[jeff]

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second photo shows the cable crossing from upstream, north side - after
having gotten around it. it's much more precarious than this photo
shows...and is perched about 15 feet above a deep fast pool run down on
the left of the picture. i'd probably not have done it without mark's
help. the cable is bolted in the rock on the other side, but just looped
around a rock on this side... no way through this area except by means
of this cable. i'm sure it gets easier with experience, but my vertigo
makes it a chilling part of the trip up the creek.

[jeff]

raven rock cliff

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me with a catawba river brown trout

[Doug]

Awesome pictures man! Few pictures make me feel like I really really want
to be there, but those do. You definitely have a talent! Where is the
Catawba river at? Google would be to easy, so I thought I'd ask. ;)

Doug


"jeff" > wrote in message
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> these are some photos of the first leg of my 12 day fishing sojourn.
> these are in burke county, upper creek and catawba river.
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> this is mark bowen teasing some trout with his hump-dis-hopper.
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[Wayne Harrison]

"jeff" > wrote in message
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> me with a catawba river brown trout
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now *that's* the kind of fishing i have come to prefer--in comparison to
risking hat and ass climbing up a place like upper creek for 8" rainbows...

i'll check with you for some details.

yfitp
wayno

[jeff]

thanks... this portion of the catawba runs from lake james to and
through morganton, nc. we fished the upper half of the tailwater
stretch flowing out of lake james. lake james is below linville gorge.
a very pretty area of the state.

jeff

Doug wrote:

> Awesome pictures man! Few pictures make me feel like I really really want
> to be there, but those do. You definitely have a talent! Where is the
> Catawba river at? Google would be to easy, so I thought I'd ask. ;)
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> Doug
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>>these are some photos of the first leg of my 12 day fishing sojourn.
>>these are in burke county, upper creek and catawba river.
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>>this is mark bowen teasing some trout with his hump-dis-hopper.
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[Opus--Mark H. Bowen]

"jeff" > wrote in message
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> these are some photos of the first leg of my 12 day fishing sojourn.
> these are in burke county, upper creek and catawba river.
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> this is mark bowen teasing some trout with his hump-dis-hopper.

I don't recall you takin' so many pics?

I apologize for not having a camera with me on our trip :~^ ( I promise to
have one for next years foray.

Op

[jeffc[_2_]]

"jeff" > wrote in message
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> the rest of these are of the catawba river tailwater below lake
> james...this was the first of the nice brown trout i caught.
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Gaw! Shocking, after the size from the little water. Nice.