Later this morning, Nathaniel and will head uphill to spend a couple of days waist deep in North Carolina's Nantahala with TJ & Ron Stallings of Road Runner lures, and prospects look great. By now, the river should have its full complement of spring-stocked fish (single-hook artificials and catch-and-release only for another few weeks), there should be a nice water flow, and the weather forecast looks perfect.
Nathaniel and I enjoyed a great trip to the Nantahala with TJ around this time last spring and got to do some early sampling of the Natural Science Trout & Panfish Series Road Runners, which are new in the marketplace this year. We caught quite a few trout, with all three species in the mix. Among them was a chunky brown trout that couldn't resist a Road Runner Original Marabou.
The 4 miles of delayed-harvest waters at the Nantahala offer a tremendous variety of water types, and a paralleling road makes it easy to hop in and out and sample everything from pockets to riffles to big plunge pools. Easy access and great fishing also attract a lot of fishermen, but it's easy to see where other anglers are already fishing.
This will be my first Nantahala trip of 2011, so I'm looking forward to stepping into the creek! Report to follow later this week.
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