Trackrock Campground (September 2009)

Tuesday, September 1 - Today we drove over Blood Mountain to the Chestatee Wildlife Management Area and fished near where we worked on Saturday. This is such a beautiful area with large rocks and cascading pools. John caught the only larger trout, but we both had numerous follows and misses. There are other areas here to fish, but they will have to wait for another time.

Thursday, September 3 - We put the kayaks up on the truck the night before and headed over to Clay County Park in North Carolina which is only 13.5 miles from Trackrock. We launched and fished structure around the shoreline. Joan started things off with a nice bream. The action was good with several good sized bream each to the boat and a few small bass as well. Most fish were caught on a small elk hare fly with a foam indicator on its back. John also got some nice action on a larger foam beetle.

Thursday, September 17 - It seems like it has been raining for weeks now. We decided to go on an explore into some outstanding areas in the Nantahala National Forest between Murphy and Franklin, North Carolina. One spot we have wanted to check out is Standing Indian Recreation Area. There is a campground there by the same name, and it has the headwaters of the Nantahala River passing through it. This river is on the Trout Unlimited top 100 rivers in the country. We talked to the couple who were hosting at the campground and running the little store there. They answered our questions about the area and easily convinced us that we need to put this on the top of our list for places to camp next year when we take out the pop-up. We checked out the river, but had gotten too hungry to take the time to fish it. Besides, we had not put our wading boots in the truck. We went on to Franklin for pizza before heading back to Trackrock.

Friday, September 25 - Our kayak outing this time was on the Lake Hiwassee in North Carolina. We put in at the boat launch and put on about six miles. This lake is the most beautiful one we have been on yet. There is virtually no development and the shoreline is mostly very rocky. We will be back soon to try fishing it. We have no pictures since John forgot the camera.

Saturday, September 26 - After breakfast in Blairsville, we drove to Blue Ridge to the Chamber of Commerce and met other members of TU Blairsville, plus TU Blue Ridge to help several scouts do the necessary activities to earn their Fly Fishing Merit Badge. John helped with fly tying and Joan helped them learn about other equipment.




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