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Clay Gibson with more reasons for Winter fishing (click to visit)

Joe Gibson finds a hog on the South Holston River (click to visit)

Gordon Kay on the South Holston in December (click to visit)

Jason Jones brings us a Winter's Tale (click to visit)

A tale of Brians on the Davidson River (click to visit)

Blake Puryear hits the South Holston River (click to visit)

The Goering group hits the tailwaters (click to visit)

Betsy Dawson learns the South Holston (click for more)

Vee sends an update from Ontario (click for more)

A South Holston River report from Bill Matyi (click for more)

Benny Pearson's smallmouth report (click for more)

Madison's Watauga River report (click for more)

Ken & Tom conquer the bass (click for more)

Jeremiah on the Watauga River (click for more)

Largemouth bass in our mountains? click for more...

Doubled-up on the Watauga River (click to visit)

Smallmouth on flies (click to visit)

Charlie Helm master's the bass (click to visit)

Brian Dunlap hits the Davidson River (click to visit)

Mark's Watauga River report (click to visit)

Garrett Blodgett hits the Watauga (click to visit)

Watauga River stripers! (click to visit)

Scott Luttrell returns to the Davidson River (click to visit)

Team Zalesky on the Watauga River (click to visit)

Watauga River Stream Report (click to visit)

Jocelyn learns on the Davidson River (click to visit)

Dylan hits the Pigeon River (click to visit)

Bill Matyi can't quit the South Holston River (click to visit)

French Broad Muskie on the fly! (click to visit)

Tom Taylor finds some Smallmouth (click to visit)

Aidan Gomez with a Davidson River Report (click to visit)

Paul Tootleman returns to the South Holston (click to visit)

Jay & Teo with a smallmouth bass report (click to visit)

South Holston Stream report (click to visit)

Bill Matyi returns to the South Holston River (click to visit)

Winter Fly Fishing: Why Bother? (click to find out)

Todd Koenig delays the harvest on the Laurel River (click to visit)

Hap Clayton's Delayed Harvest report (click to visit)

Debbie Griffith on the South Holston River (click to visit)

South Holston stream report (click to visit)

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Back-Country Report for

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(Click the thumbnails above for our back-country slide-show.)

Gabe Spencer holds a fine back-country brown trout caught on April 17, 2010 (click image to enlarge).

Lucky Gabe Spencer got a great Christmas gift back in December: a gift certificate for some guided fly fishing!

Gabe called to redeem the certificate and he and Altamont Anglers guide Teo Whitlock decided it was time for a trip to the back-country. The stream must remain anonymous, to protect the trout, but it's only an hour or so from downtown Asheville, and feels like a million miles from civilization.

Now is definitely the time for back-country trips: stream temperatures are warming up to the trout "happy zone", bugs are abundant--look for black caddis, Blue Quills, Quill Gordons, and all the mid-Spring suspects. Or, just put on a Parachute Adams with a bead-head Hare's Ear behind it and enjoy...

Click the thumbs for larger views of some more of Gabe's back-country trip:

(Altamont Anglers operates on Pisgah National Forest Rivers under USDA Forest Service Permit #PIS6560)