[RoninLB]

Originally Posted by carreradpt

Planning on a little roadtrip in the southeast right after the elections and you'll be on my mind.

, I will be looking for those odd spots that I think you would head after.

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Originally Posted by Brorag

OK, time for me to weigh in. I'm the one that was running around in bib-overalls.
When I met Ron, he was worried about the locals, cause he kept hearing banjo's playing. I told him I was travling in mufti, and that if he kept his mouth shut and didn't say nothing, I'd do the talking, and we'd be fine. So we rode around all day Friday checking stuff out with the top down.
We camped below Ron on the lake, and liked to froze our hoo ha's off!
Remember how we couldn't find Ron when we were taking the group pics at the dam and there was a car across the river at the camp ground?
Ron found a hot shower there, and was apparently washing, shaving and playing with his rubber duckie while we were striking poses wid the porches.
Frankly, I think that was a better use of his time, cause he was beginning to smell real bad. The only consolation was that he was sleeping down wind from us with the camping-for-jesus crowd.
Any way, he showed up after the saturday t.o.d. run after dark with a bag of col. sanders finest. I thought he had crashed the PCA party for sat supper, but he said they kicked him out. We had found some fresh possum road kill and was stewing it over the fire, so we let him stay with us for the rest of the evening.
He was scared to go back to his camp site cause some of the good ole boys two sites down from his, who had spent all day praying for him, because of his being a Yankee and all. They also spoke a different vernacular than he did. There was a preacher with them who was packing a .45 automatic (for them backsliders) who said there might be hope cause yankees (especially this one) never reached the age of accountability.
We did up a mess of meat, potatoes, carrots, and onions in tin foil in the fire, and topped it off with a bold merlot, and followed that with a nice dessert wine and cigars. Swapped more lies, 'til late then went to bed.
Life is good.
Drove back home with the top down.
I'll add pics later when I get it figured out...........

Originally Posted by RoninLB

Info for Fly fisherman.
connect the dots.
I left metro on Tues 3am. Bored $hitLess on I-81 in Vir around 10am i'm passing a town called "Woodstock". WTF, i won't be late for the weekend meet. Spent a few hrs checking it out. [Worth the layover.] Back on I-81 s till it's time to dive into the Smokies via I-40. I wind up at a town called Waynesville in NC. It's somewhere around 12 mid and I might as well top off. The bs ride s is over and i'm in a good mood. I'm in no hurry while making coffee, hanging, etc.
I start talking with a 40yr town local named Bill that's my exact age. I could dial the conversation as 2 college age boomers talking the same attitude they had in the early 1970's at school. I don't leave this guy for a few hours. It was daybreak. I'm out of metro and became dialed in to NC, somewhat.

His area has great native trout fishing and it's accessaable if you want to hunt for fish or hire a guide. I knew the Smokie's forest was nice but now i was wising up.. nice

Only a few hr's later I'm almost at the intersection of my Hy 19/23 and Hy 28N to Fontana and more nice forest.. Top off again for entertainment 5mi before intersection.


Again.. I'm into hanging till the weekend.
The gas station has a bait and tackle section. It's early am and local customers are stopping by. Bang, I get excited over the bait and tackle sec. Within 15min i was involved with locals for 5-15min at a time. The 2 owners and me were entertained with each other. They let me take pictures etc.
IMO great fishing areas, great custom flies, great selection of lures stacked on the shelves from most productive at top till less at bottom. A big welcome to fish out the introduced Brown trout as fast as possible. About 3hrs later i leave for the ranger station up north.

The Place is called Smoky Mountain Bait & Tackle. I newbie could spend $200-500 there and have a decent foundation.


I took pics of the isles and custom fly box in big bits/kb. My bud up here makes his own flies and flipped over the pics.

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Then while doing pics outside I spot a local female also hanging for some reason.








Anyway.. I've seen many forests. The Smokies are among the best.