A 9-pound Chattahoochee River brown captured and then released during recent sampling efforts. Photo courtesy of the Georgia WRD.
The good folks who manage our fisheries occasionally share photos that remind us what might be looking at our lures any given day -- like this beautiful hook-jawed brown trout that a Georgia Wildlife Resources Division crew shocked up while doing sampling work in the Chattahoochee River. Of course, Georgia's state record brown trout, which also came from the the 'Hooch, was twice the size of this one, so you know there are some other big ones swimming around down there.
I'm excited about the fact that I'll get to do at least a bit of fishing on three or four days next week, and all will be in Georgia. The only bad part about getting to fish so many cool places as part of my work is that I really don't get to spend as much time as I'd like fishing home waters. However, Monday is Asher's 8th birthday, and we're likely to at least spend a couple of hours at the pond. Then on Tuesday, Nathaniel and I are meeting two friends to hike and fish in the mountains. Then, next weekend, Nathaniel, Asher and I are camping with friends from church along the Tallulah, where we'll definitely do some trout fishing.
I'll keep you posted on what we find!
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