Wayne Knight wrote:
"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.



the daily fee is $5.50 to fish the tellico-citico trout waters. i think
it's used to support the hatchery stocking program.

"Tellico Hatchery receives 8 to 9 inch rainbow trout from DHNFH. These
fish are then grown to 11 to 12 inches and stocked frequently into the
Tellico River, Citico Creek, and Green Cove Pond. This intense
management requires additional fees to support the program and a special
Tellico-Citico permit is required to fish these waters. Several Polk
County streams are also stocked with trout from Tellico Hatchery."

http://www.state.tn.us/twra/fish/Str...ut_Plan_06.pdf

aren't most of the tellico brookie waters on the nc side?

jeff