"jeff" wrote in message
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fishing the upper tellico requires purchase of a special daily permit and
is allowed only on limited days during the week...perhaps a sign of things
to come. we dallied in the lower section on our way back to tellico
plains.

Those permit rules were in place back when I used to fish the area (I left
Atlanta 10 years ago) and originally were used to help support the efforts
to re-introduce/protect/strengthen the native brookies in the permit
stretch.