Mike Strong offers the camera a view of a beautifull 18" Watauga River brown trout on July 12, 2009 (click the image to enlarge it).
Some guys get all the luck: Mike Strong and his dad, David, no sooner finished a week of canoeing than they were gifted a float trip by mom/wife Laura! We know the Hyde drift boat captained by Altamont Anglers guide Teo Whitlock was roomier than that canoe, and we can only hope that the big brown trout on the left was "roomier" than whatever they caught on their canoe trip.
Despite what Teo described as "tough" fishing on Sunday, July 12, Mike and David seem to have overcome the conditions, somewhat. Click the thumbnail images below for larger views of the fishing...

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







































