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smallmouth bass fishing guides
Sauger Sighting, April 20, 2012 (click to visit)

South Holston River fly fishing
South Holston River, April 15 report (click to visit)

South Holston River fly fishing
South Holston Stripers on the fly (click to visit)

Watauga River fly fishing
April 2 on the Watauga River (click to visit)

South Holston River fly fishing guides
South Holston River gets weird (click to visit)

Asheville Fly Fishing Guides
Patrick Roberts' Delayed Harvest report (click to visit)

Watauga River fly fishing
Watauga River report from Pete Post (click to visit)

smallmouth bass fishing in Tennessee
Blind squirrel finds acorn (click to visit)

Watauga River fly fishing
Tom Taylor, March 27, 2012 (click to visit)

Tennessee Smallmouth bass fishing
Tom Taylor March 26, 2012 (click to visit)

Smallmouth bass fishing guides
March Madness for Smallmouth Bass (click to visit)

South Holston River fly fishing guides
South Holston River, Feb. 9, 2012 (click to visit)

smallmouth bass fishing guides, Asheville, NC
February smallmouth fishing (click to visit)

Asheville, NC fly fishing guides
Jocelyn & the February bass (click to visit)

Fly fishing for striped bass
February stripers on the fly (click to visit)

Fly fishing the South Holston River
Clay Gibson with more reasons for Winter fishing (click to visit)

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

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

South Holston River fly fishing
Jason Jones brings us a Winter's Tale (click to visit)

Fly fishing the South Holston River
A tale of Brians on the Davidson River (click to visit)

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

Fy fishing the South Holston River
The Goering group hits the tailwaters (click to visit)

Fly fishing the South Holston River
Betsy Dawson learns the South Holston (click for more)

North Carolina smalllmouth bass
Ken & Tom conquer the bass (click for more)

Watauga River fly fishing
Jeremiah on the Watauga River (click for more)

Smallmouth bass fishing in North Carolina
Largemouth bass in our mountains? click for more...

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

smallmouth bass fishing north carolina
Smallmouth on flies (click to visit)

Watauga River Fly Fishing
Mark's Watauga River report (click to visit)

fly fishing the Watauga River
Watauga River stripers! (click to visit)

A Pigeon River rainbow trout
Dylan hits the Pigeon River (click to visit)

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

A North Carolina smallmouth bass
French Broad Muskie on the fly! (click to visit)

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

South Holston River brown trout
South Holston Stream report (click to visit)

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

Watauga River brown trout
Winter Fly Fishing: Why Bother? (click to find out)

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

A South Hoston River brown trout
South Holston stream report (click to visit)

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John Claunch brought the family up to Asheville from their digs in Fairhope, AL for some cooling mountain air. He had a great plan to treat his father and himself to a half-day of guided fly fishing, but the plan had a flaw--it relied on the airlines' ability to deliver his Dad from Houston in time for the fishing. When the airline cancelled Dad's flight we discussed the various options of re-scheduling, cancelling, John fishing alone, etc. and at some point John heard a small voice with a solution: why not take treat his daughter Anna Grace to a fly fishing lesson?

So Altamont Anglers' guide Forrest Marshall took John and Anna Grace to one of his favorite back-country streams to learn some fly fishing and stalk some wild brookies. Judging from the pictures, Anna Grace is a quick learner, if not a natural-born threat to the wild brook trout population.

Here's a nice shot of Anna Grace and her Dad, John, with a fine brook trout caught July 27, 2006 after a little bit of instruction in the back-country not far from Asheville, NC: (click to enlarge the picture)...
Anna Grace Claunch holds a brook trout caught near Asheville, NC

And here's a great shot of John and Anna and a truly over-sized wild brook trout (over-sized for the tiny, back-country stream it inhabits, that is)--they say an 11-inch wild brookie is a trophy, and this looks to measure up to trophy proportions (click to enlarge the image)...
John and Anna Grace Claunch with a big brook trout caught near Asheville, NC

And here are a few more nice shots of and Anna Grace and John Claunch with some nice back-country brookies on July 27, 2006 (click the thumbs for a bigger view)...
Anna Grace and John Claunch with a wild trout caught near Asheville, NC Anna Grace Claunch with a brook trout caught, near Asheville, NC Anna Grace Claunch with a nice brook trout caught near Asheville, NC

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

 

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