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Altamont Anglers In The Press

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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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Tom Martin hoists a hefty smallmouth bass he caught on May 19, 2009 (click image for larger view).

Tom"not a slave to fashion" Martin is a passionate angler with years of experience seeking--and catching--bass. Despite the many hours spent in bass boats, Tom still feels the suspense of every cast and retrieve, and has lost none of his excitement for every bite by a bass!

And--judging by the photo to the left--Tom still feels the exuberance of the final boating of the prize, in this case one fine specimen of smallmouth bass. While most successful fisherman have acquired, over the years, secrets to their success, most keep these hard-learned tricks or techniques close to vest. Not Tom. His magic bass-attracting fish bibs are right out there for all to see...

Ken Petersonholds a powerful smallmouth bass on May 19, 2009 (click image to enlarge).

Ken Peterson is the perfect foil for his fishing buddy, Tom, easily passing the age-old test "could you spend a day in a bass boat with this guy?": calm, reserved, always impeccably dressed and--most importantly--willing to pay for the guide!

Altamont Anglers guide Teo Whitlock keeps an eye on the bass-fishing conditions here in Western North Carolina, with standing orders from Tom and Ken that when it gets right, he is to call them. And so he did, and so they arrived on Tuesday, May 19, primed for a half-day float . Despite recent thunderstorms--you can see how full the river is in that photo to the right--the fishing appears to have been worth the drive from their homes in the Charlotte, NC area.

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)

 

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