Sunday, November 24, 2013

Trip Report

We had a group of four for our semi-annual overnight fishing trip.  This trip originally started a number of years ago with overnight camping/hiking trips, but it has been two years since we did a camping/fishing trip.  The last few years, the trip has become more about fishing, and less about hiking and camping.   For this trip, we set our home base in Blue Ridge, at The Gubna's cabin. 
We started with a short float down the HI near Reliance, TN.  Rob caught a really nice bow on his 8 weight.  He's caught 2-3 20 plus inch fish on his 8 weight over the last year.  The rest of us have been stuck catching SNITs.
At the end of the float, we got into a whole mess of fish feeding on bwos.  I caught 25-30 bows, plus crappie and a brim.  One guy in our group caught baby browns, which was interesting.  Doc took off after the first float to check out the upper toccoa.  The three of us remaining did another float on the HI.  The 2nd float wasn't very productive, but a good time nonetheless.
We drove to Blue Ridge, at which point it turned into a strange adventure, with Streamer Rob getting his truck stuck in a ditch, and Hip Hop Will in rare form after numerous double crown and cokes.
We got up in the morning and hit the upper toccoa.  There was some debate among the group on whether to also fish snowbird, but we opted for a day at the upper toccoa.  Streamer Rob and Doc did well, catching a number of nice brookies and bows.  I think we caught 25-30 between the four of us.  We rounded it all out with pizza from Blue Jeans.
Can't wait for the next trip!