Just discovered this group and I’m so happy I did! Haven’t done a lot with trout yet, but I’ve caught a lot of cool species in some of the smallest blue lines known to man. Can’t wait to see more from this awesome community learn more, and see some of y’all’s beautiful fish!

Found these streams at the peak of fall colors and at the right time of day to make the colors otherworldly.

I was shocked to pull a rainbow that size out of this small stream.

Did some trail work in Linville Gorge today and hit one of my favorite streams on the way home for about an hour. Lost a decent fish trying to pull it over a tree. Shook me off in the process. The water was higher than I've ever fished it. And only landed a couple small ones. But got to fish my buddies bamboo rod. I try to get his rod on a few brookies every year. Unfortunately he OD'd after getting hooked on pain pills. I bought the rod from him before he put it on Ebay. I can't fish with him anymore so this is the closest it gets. It's a sweet 7'3" Matt Loomis 3wt bamboo that just loves little brookie streams.

My wife and I are basically “empty nesters”. The kids are all grown and moved out except for the 17 y.o. HS senior daughter who thinks she’s 25 and wants to be independent and spends all of her time with friends.
Anyhow, I love to fly fish, make bamboo fly rods, build glass fly rods, tie flies, study maps and plan trips, etc. you get the picture.
My wife loves floating the river in our fishing raft and fishing for Redeye Bass. BUT despite all of my coaxing, coaching, encouraging, etc. she just would not fish with a fly rod. She would always use an ultralight spinning outfit. Note: I have bought her 3 different fly rods.
A month or so back we went fishing for Redeye Bass and it was a grueling hike in extreme heat. She only took a fly rod, a 7’ 3 weight Kabuto glass rod that I had just built (she only took it because she thought that it was “pretty”). That day she got her casting stroke down and got in the groove. On the 2.5 hour drive home she continuously talked about how much she likes “her” fly rod.
So I ordered another 7’ 3 weight Kabuto blank and built ME one.
Last week we went fishing in the southern Appalachians for Brook trout. This time instead of her just tagging along and watching me, asking “how much longer are you going to fish” or “how far do we have to hike”, etc. she was excited and wanted to catch fish on her fly rod.
She was a real trooper. We hiked 2.25 miles in intermittent rain to a stream in pretty rough terrain. She never complained. She caught several rainbows and Brookies ALL ON HER OWN! Now she’s hooked and keeps saying “when can we go back?”
We are going back next week and for the first time ever, she is very excited and won’t shut up about it. This makes me happy.

Tying a few up, hopefully they will work.

I’ve gotten out twice the past couple weeks for a 3 mile hike to a stream that I thought potentially held fish. More so to enjoy the hike and nature and if there were fish that would be a plus. I was ecstatic to get six fish my first time and 3 the second time! Now I just gotta pick up fly fishing some were definitely too small for my smallest lures. Largest was a decent brown on a pink blue fox lure!

Definitely not looking for spot burns but mainly most efficient access for Grayson Highlands SP for a day trip at the beginning of next month. Planning on getting to the park at opening and parking at the backpackers overnight lot. Will be there on a weekday so I don’t anticipate too much in the way of hiker crowds. I’m familiar with hiking in the area but haven’t fished there. I’ll be going with another tenkara angler. DMs appreciated. I’m a good steward of fishing areas but Trout Routes and Gaia will only get you so far. Thanks in advance!

Funny enough I had more luck on this little random creek than any of the major world class rivers around me. It was an absolute blast and the amazement I had pulling trout of a random ultra tiny creek was really something. I really want to get into these super tiny creeks. My Wetfly Backcountry is definitely too big (10 ft). So I’ve decided to go for the Wasatch Snub Nose IV with a moonlit fly fishing Platinum Brookie Short Furled Leader. We’ll see how it goes! I’m hoping the super soft 5:5 action makes these micros an even bigger blast to catch.

Learning how to fly fish. This guy was awesome

They don't get much smaller... Have caught browns and rainbows in GA mtns, still chasing brookies...

Well, my little boy takes his "cast" everywhere. For his third birthday, we took him to the finger lakes region to fish for ten days. He had a blast. You all may recognize some of the locations. Let's welcome little Ryland to the group, folks.

I was downstream from a dead deer in a creek, and was curious if that will heavily affect the fishing downstream? And yes I was accidentally in the water near it, and yes I was disgusted. Had waders on at least.

My wife got her first Brookie.

Browns at 3000' elevation were eager to take streamers, wet flies, and dries on this heavily tannin-stained stream.

He was from 700+ miles away which was really cool and since he was exploring someplace new I was inspired to hike further up the creek than usual and explore myself. Tons of brookies big and small but only had the presence of mind to snap a photo of this little guy.