North Georgia Wild Trout

by JJ Mathes
(Georgia)

This week I fished another North GA creek for small wild trout. I used a Kiyotaki 18 rod, 7-ft of Yamatoyo 3.5 fluorocarbon level line, 2-ft of 5X tippet, and a size 14 JuteBug. At the lower elevations small rainbows were plentiful, after getting above two waterfall barriers brookies took over and were lots of fun on the Kiyotaki 18.

In the past I’ve had a hard time seeing “orange” hi-vis level line in shadowy areas and wanted to try a different color, the Yamatoyo level line is “chartreuse” it really stood out against the dark shadows of the rhododendron. It also has less memory than the Sunline 3.5 fluorocarbon level line that I have been using.

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” - Benjamin Franklin

"Be sure in casting, that your fly fall first into the water, for if the line fall first, it scares or frightens the fish..." -
Col. Robert Venables 1662

As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron.

We've all had situations where seriously chewed up flies kept catching fish after fish after fish. It is no sin to tie flies that come off the vise looking seriously chewed up.