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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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One of the great things about the fishing around our home of Asheville, NC is the incredible variety of fishing opportunities, from wide-open smallmouth rivers to tight, back-country brookie streams with every kind of wild or stocked (sometimes both) trout stream in between. John DuPlantis got a taste of the variety available when he came up our way from his home in Lafayette, LA and booked a couple of days of guided fishing. Altamont Anglers' guide Teo Whitlock took John into the back-country on their first outing, to one of our favorite wild brookie streams. This is the type of high-country water whose plunge-pools harbour treasure troves of beautiful fish, but require extreme stealth to approach, as John is demonstrating here, on April 4, 2007:

(click the image for a larger view)
John DuPlantis stalks wild trout near Asheville, NC

The rewards for stalking wild brookies this way may be "small", but they're undeniably beautiful (click to enlarge
A wild brook trout caught near Asheville, NC

Click the thumbs below for larger views of John's back-country trip, April 4, 2007:
John DuPlantis holds a wild brookie caught near Asheville, NC John DuPlantis stalks wild brook trout near Asheville, NC A wild brook trout caught near Asheville, NC A wild brook trout caught near Asheville, NC

The next week, on April 9, 2007, John did some more "stalking" of trout, only in very different conditions on the Davidson River. The trout here are also wild fish, but the habitat allows for some serious growth, with mix of Browns and Rainbows that can attain "trophy" size. Indeed, if not for the catch & release rules protecting these fish, many would have long ago taken up residence on the walls of lucky anglers! Here's John with a nice Davidson River rainbow trout caught (and released) on Monday, April 9, 2007 (click to enlarge the image)...
John DuPlantis holds a big rainbow trout caught on the Davidson River, near Asheville, NC

Click the thumbnails below for larger views of John's day on the Davidson River, 4/07/2007...
John DuPlantis holds a brook trout caught on the Davidson River, near Asheville, NC John DuPlantis holds a brook trout caught on the Davidson River, near Asheville, NC John DuPlantis holds a big rainbow trout caught on the Davidson River, near Asheville, NC

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

 

They Coulda Been Contenders!
Or wall-hangers--but we released them all!!


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