"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:cXS%d.66421$7z6.16282@lakeread04...
...in the warmth of our lodgings on a st. patrick's night, anticipating
better weather for fishing in the 'morrow, tom brown prepared a beef
wellington with steamed asparagus and potatoes while i (and others)
liberally sampled his tanqueray (green bottle), heineken (green bottle),
and le mistral (green wine g).

Damn I'm hungry now,

moronic...uh...we ate, drank, talked, and went to sleep with plans to go
fishing early the next morning.

with images of sugar plums dancing in your heads?

mark, joe, tom, and i planned to check out a recommended stream. when
chris (photo on abp) came out to the anti-clave last october, he suggested
we try this place...i'll call it buster's creek. i'd never fished it
before, so whatthehell.

Not Jeff's creek?


after a bit of work herding the crowd up the dirt and loosely graveled
roads to buster's, tom and joe went upstream, mark and i headed
downstream. tom and joe didn't speak of their fishing too much...a sign
of either their desire to keep secrets from their friends, or they got
skunked. mark and i had an exceptional day of fishing and catching. all
of our fish were browns (samples on abpf) ranging from 8-11". more than
decent non-hatchery fish in the blue ridge. we lost a couple that were
over 12"...one broke off my 6x, i'm sure it was over 14". all of the fish
came out of deeper pools, none were in pockets or riffles. still adjusting
to temperature i assume. however, in one section of the stream i saw a
decent hatch of mayflies and there were rising fish. one of the very few
times i've ever targeted rising wild trout in nc. we (well, after mark
finally listened to me about bwo's and parachute adams, "we") caught as
many as 4 fish out of some of the longer, deeper pools. not at all bad for
a trip with such a dismal i-40 beginning. further evidence that ol' ht was
right about not letting the weasels get ya.

jeff

Great report...and pictures. new camera eh? What kind?

I'm betting Quill Gordons, but there's a few early season bugs that look
similar. I'm jealous, we're still a few weeks out from our first decent
mayfly.

Mike