Al Birkmaier's fly fishing trip on the Watauga River guided by Altamont Anglers

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Al Birkmaier, who is becoming a "regular" client (he just can't get enough of this good fishing), floated the Watauga River with us February 27th and 28th. After returning home he sent us this email: "Steve Hurlbut and I want to thank you and Teo for the great time we had on the Watauga Friday and Saturday. Teo was awesome and got us into the two biggest fish Steve and I will ever catch in our life times. Although we are still in the state of shock, we are already planning a return trip...
Please ask Teo to send the pictures ASAP so we can silence some of the skeptics."

Al Birkmaier caught this monster Watauga River brown trout on Frbruary 27th, held here by his guide, Teo Whitlock (click image to enlarge)

Ok all you skeptics, bear witness to the fish on the left held by Teo, and please remain silent.

Sometimes the worst the weather the better the fishing: Altamont Anglers guides Teo Whitlock and Erich Sonderegger had floated the Watauga River the day before, with much nicer weather and tougher fishing, but the cold and the rain on the days Al and Steve fished seemed to turn the fish on.

Teo holds a huge male brown caught by Steve Hurlbut on the Watauga River, 2/27/09 (click to enlarge)

Under normal conditions Steve would congratulate Al on his 28", 10+lb fish, move as far down or up stream from Al as the boat would allow, and begin fishing even harder to try to even the score (with no such luck, of course). However, these were not normal conditions: only two casts later Steve would, in fact, even the score with his own Watauga River brown trout, a gigantic male.

Click the thumb nail pictures below for larger views of the great fishing on the Watauga River on 2/27/09 and 2/28/09 (including the cool three-photo sequence at the end)...

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

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Or wall-hangers--but we released them all!!

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