Smokies Fishing (Oct 3)

We wanted to get in a last trip into the park and had intentions on fishing Noland Creek, which is near the end of the "Road to Nowhere" outside Bryson City. We got to the parking lot, which had several vehicles parked, so we decided to hike up the trail along the creek to check it out before trying to fish it. We got nearly a mile up before we found a place to get to the water. We talked to a group of fishermen who were just getting started, and they said that they hike up about 2 1/2 miles up to fish. We decided we would do that another day and go over to Deep Creek instead. It is really a beautiful drive up to this part of the park. When we got to the picnic area, we stopped and had lunch. Afterwards, we put on out wet wading gear and hiked about a mile up Deep Creek, and fished a few areas. Joan was the successful one, with a nice keeper sized rainbow. We stopped at Anthony's for pizza on the way home. A nice day.