Year 2004 Fly Fishing Report

Wednesday, 31 October 2007

03-27-04 Saturday    WILSON CREEK & CARY FLAT BRANCH-- The weather was the best it could possible be so my wife, son and me headed out to Upper Wilson Creek. The sun was shinning and the temperatures were right. We hiked in 1.1 miles down 4wd road also called the "Jeep Trail" I fished about 3 minutes before I landed a wild rainbow about 8" long. I caught him on a caddis fly. The water was clear and the level was normal. I fished up Wilson about 100 yards from where I first stepped in. I landed several wild rainbows all 8-10 inches. I then moved 60 yards down below where I first started and fished back up. I saw a nice spot where I knew a trout would be sitting so I cast my caddis fly right up into that feeding alley and WHAmmmmm. Caught a nice 12 inch rainbow. These wild rainbows were full of energy, running and jumping all over the place and this 12 inch rainbow was twice as mean. Unfortunatly I was too far away from my wife and she couldn't bring me the camera, uhhhh. Oh well maybe next time. I proceeded to leave the main wilson creek and go back up the trail and fish all of the feeder stream called Cary Flat Branch creek. It has a lot of trout in it, but it is VERY tight in places. It's all you can do to dabble the fly off the water in some spots. I caught at least 8 more Rainbow Trout before I had to get out because we were feeling a few rain drops. I did catch a few Brown Trout out of this section but they were all very small. The whole family had a blast and the fishing was great. Check out the photo's To get to where we were at you enter a road called Edgemont Rd ( and it does have a sign) off of 221. It is exactly 6.8 miles from the beginning of Edgemont rd. to the Jeep Trail. You go down Edgemont till you reach a T in the road and turn right ( on the  left it is Globe rd., it is all clearly marked) Go down till you see Wilson Creek Trail Road, there is a green road sign clearly marked and a small path in front of a little brown cabin. There is a pull off for you vehicle. The trail should have a trout unlimited watch sign on a tree to the right 20 feet down the trail. The walk should take about 40 minutes. The first 15 minutes on the way down is very rocky, but when you will hit your first creek it is all flat and level from there on out. There are 2 old shack type cabins down there. When you reach the second BROWN shack (has an old pick up shell cover on cinder blocks to the left of the cabin) go 25 yards more on the path and look to the left and you will see a path into the forest of pine trees. Go down that path and follow that to the water. It is 50 yards from that point on to Wilson creek. A little History about Mortimer and Edgemont and Coffey's General Store plus Wilson Creek--Brown Mountain   Location RIVER Wilson Creek    Trails Jeep Trail G.P.S. 36.05826,-81.75685 Temperature & Weather HI 73° LOW 46° Sunny-Calm Normal Pressure Flies Start 11:30 Stop 3:30 Date 3-27-04 Saturday Water Temp. ? Degrees Clarity. Normal Level Normal Stream Terrain Rocky Size Medium Fishing Pressure Light

 

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