This is a repost. My apologies to everyone forced to endure it twice.

Let me tell some things I have learned about trout fishing from
Memphis. If you are going to fish the Arkansas Ozark Trout streams
(White, Norfork, Little Red) give yourself a few days. You will
probably be skunked one day, but another day will be pure magic.
People really come all the way from Chicago and Iowa to fish for
Arkansas trout.

For those who know, or want to find out, a campground called
McClennan's on the Norfork River in Arkansas is greatest mile of trout
fishing in the Central U.S.

The border country between Tennessee and North Carolina has some
amazing trout fishing. The Watauga and the South Holston are
tremendous places to float and fish. But in my opinion, they keep it
nicer on the North Carolina side of the mountains than the Tennessee
side. Wayne Harrison probably shares that view.

If I stayed in the South, I would want to live in Blowing Rock followed

by Asheville, although I never did get all around Western North
Carolina.

Of course, where to live has some many variables for each individual,
with economics often paramount. I have met many people who have moved
to the Arkansas Ozarks to have trout, home, land and privacy more
cheaply than perhaps any other state. Hell, Arkansas is basically
Mississippi with Montana sized trout. All thanks to the Army Corps of
Engineers.