Fly Fishing Road Trips
Good People      Good Water       Good Fish

After a long winter, Lauren and I had to get out of town. We have family in Atlanta, Georgia, so we decide to rent a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountain of Georgia. Our cottage is near the town of Blue Ridge, across the street from the Toccoa River. The weather was fantastic, in the 80s, after a winter of freezing temperatures.

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Toccoa River is known for trout, but the big attraction is river rafting, so we packed up the kayak, our two Labrador Retrievers, and our fly rods. On the first day, we dropped Lauren upstream in the kayak while I fished downstream to wait with the pups. It took about three hours to land two small trout, but Georgia is done!  I think I used a caddis and green copper john nymph flies. Lauren took close to four hours to get downstream to meet me. She continued floating down the river over minor falls on the way.

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Lauren's family arrived at our three-bedroom cabin; then it went from 80 to snowy the next morning…UGH! Lauren caught two trout, and I struck out the rest of the trip. But we drank wine and listened to live bluegrass music.