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Old April 12th, 2010, 10:05 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.fishing
Mark Bowen
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Default Upper Creek Cont...

Well ya can't ask for any better than the delayed harvest section of Wilson
Creek! Not sure when it reverts back to catch and take though? Of course a
long stretch will be full of dumbassed trout then too.

Give me a holler anytime after May 8th. I will be working around mother's
house--she wants tomatoes and green beans this year, if I can get the tiller
running that is? However, lacking homework to do each evening should free me
up quite a bit.

Op


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"Mark Bowen" wrote in message
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"jloomis" wrote in message
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Wow. Very similiar Canyon Structure to a river area in Twaine Harte
Calif.
Looks like fun fishing.
Nice water condition.
Slightly green.....nice
john


The stream is Upper Creek in Burke County, NC--a quick look at Google
Earth will give you some idea of the gradient. This stream drops rather
steeply from top to bottom of the mountain. Of course, our mountains are
considerably smaller than the ones y'all have out West.

The water conditions were high and fast--dangerous climbing up the 5 tier
waterfalls!--as we have had an inordinate amount of snow this year, which
has replenished the water table in Catawba water basin. Upper Creek is
fed mostly by water seeping from the water table, as the stream has cut
its way to bedrock.

Fishing was mediocre at best, but I believe it was mainly due to the
level and current flow. Once we got to the top of the falls, where the
stream flattens out for a ways, before climbing upward again, we had some
good dry fly action.

I finish my MPA degree in May and plan on fishing agreat deal more this
year than last--this means more pics of our wonderful NC streams!

Take care!

Op --the brown in the attachment is from Upper Creek above where we
fished the other week--

pretty fish, mark. i sure would like to come up this early summer for
some easy, old man, streamside casting to dumbass fish.


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