Found My Old Trout Journal

[Phil]

Came across my old dusty copy of "The Trout Fisher's Journal" yesterday. Fairly interesting (to me, anyway) to read my reports back in 1986, 87, and 88 fishing the Watauga and SoHo tailwaters (mostly the Watauga). Late March and early April hatches of hendricksons were so profuse that the fly got lost in the naturals, same with sulphers in summer. We were using comparaduns, split duck wing no-hackles, and floating nymphs. Fishing over pods of rising browns all in excess of 18-20 inches and catching quite a few. 12-14 foot 6X leaders mostly fished across and downstream to them. 24-26 inch fish were not uncommon, parking was not a problem on either river, and no mention of any crowds of other fishermen at all.
I wish those rivers were still like that, dang it.