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Fall Fly Fishing in the Mountains with Sam Johnson



Segment 2, October 20, 2023

Fall in the Carolina’s brings cooler weather, beauty, & cold water.  The cold water is what we want to talk about on this segment of the Carolina Outdoors because it is where the rainbow, brook, & brown trout are living.

Guest Sam Johnson of WIld Bearings Outdoors is an author, speaker, & sportsman.  He joins the Carolina Outdoors to talk fly fishing in western North Carolina this fall.

You’ll Learn:

The Lakes of the Biltmore Estate
Information about filming Wild Bearings Outdoors program on The American Country Network
Beauty of fishing in the fall
Challenge of fishing with leaves falling & how to solve it
Five places to fish that are featured with almost 200 other streams in Fly Fishing the Blue Ridge Parkway-NC.

Johnson names:
The Doe River that eventually flows into Elizabethton, TN
Lower Creek in the Mount Mitchell area of North Carolina
Dutch Creek outside Valle Crucis, NC
East Fork of the Chestnut Creek below Galax, VA