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Carolina Christmas Brook Trout Stream
Date: December, 23th 2008
Time: 9:30am
Location: Secret Brooktrout stream, North Carolina
Who: My wife, Ellie Childs
Anyone else fish in the last week? Where and what for?
nice piece of film, man.
yrs-
Evan!
Posted by: Evan! | December 29, 2008 at 09:36 AM
A slice of heaven ... beautiful. And no snow! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Mike | December 29, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Hiring arborists and geologists to help me determine the stream's exact location -- I have to fish that piece of water soon as the brook trout in southern Appalachia are particulary vulnerable to global warming.
Posted by: curmudgeon | December 29, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Posted by: whitewatermel | December 29, 2008 at 04:54 PM
Global warming is simply a joke.
Posted by: whitewatermel | December 29, 2008 at 04:54 PM
mel,
you serious?
Posted by: tim Romano | December 29, 2008 at 06:12 PM
Cool video, although no fish. Wonder what the CFM's were?
Posted by: Matt Penttila | December 29, 2008 at 09:53 PM
acid rain, gravity and a round earth are a joke also...
Posted by: joey | December 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Nice...I'm Jealous!
Posted by: Troutdawg | December 30, 2008 at 02:43 AM
Here's what I noticed; Rhodis apparently never drop their leaves and can therefore snag my fly at any time of the year! Didn't get to fish but got many goodies for X-mas. Must have been good this year.
Posted by: Wags | December 30, 2008 at 08:24 AM
Wags,
Yeah, there were a ton of Rhododendron in NC. I can only imagine how amazing it looks when there in bloom. It was kinda weird seeing leaves everywhere in December when it was below freezing... We don't have any here.
Posted by: tim romano | December 30, 2008 at 09:36 AM
dry fly fishing in a spring creek in northern patagonia last week...
Posted by: joey | December 30, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Joey, I know you're a Longhorn and I'm a Sooner, but can I come to Patagonia fishing with you some time?
Oh, and I forgot to mention, uhh, you'd have to spot me the coin, but maybe I could trade it out in some guided, uh, rough fish trips on a few of our fantastic NW Oklahoma rivers...
Patagonia. Rub it in, cornboy. I hope Rick Barnes develops a flaming case of the 'roids...
Posted by: Chad Love | December 30, 2008 at 02:27 PM
Tim,
I spend a long weekend in the Smokies every spring. The rhodis are really beautiful when they are in bloom. Of course, those beautiful blooms will also eat flies. My wife planted two in front of the house a couple of years ago during a landscaping remodel. I've told her many times they would look more natural with some 6x and a few flies strung out in them. She does not seem to see the humor. My question is did you catch anything?
Posted by: Wags | December 31, 2008 at 05:28 AM
wags, well no. I have to be honest. We didn't catch anything, although we didn't really try to hard. It was really cold and we just wanted to see this stream that we'd heard so much about for the past couple of years.
Posted by: tim romano | December 31, 2008 at 01:11 PM