Yet another Alabama Flyfisher

This is my first time to this board...looks good....I have visited your shop several times over the past two years....and just wanted to tell you it has been the best shop I have been in....the products you sell and the people selling it are top notch....see yall this spring ... thanks j.Hightower

[bamafly]

hey J

where do you live?

I am in Athens.

I live about 40... 45 miles north of B'ham.....Gardencity area

[bamafisherlady]

That picture looks like a trout that might have been caught from below Smith Dam. Those rocks are familiar. Am I correct?

Yes bamafisherlady I caught this fish in the Sipsey...over the Christmas Holidays..I get to slip off there about a dozen times a year...mostly during the cold months

[Hawgdaddy]

I love having that place (Sipsey Fork) so close to home. I actually fly fished for trout for a couple of years before being extremely surprised to learn that we had a trout tailwater here in Alabama. Good to see so many folks from Alabama here on the board,

hawgdaddy

[canyon65]

I would have never guessed that was a Sipsey fish - unbelievable color on it. I haven't fished up there in two years, but I caught my first trout there! Seems like back then the fish had very little color - maybe the hatchery is shipping some different bloodlines now. My problem with the Sipsey is the drive-time. I live in Gadsden, and I can be on the Hiwassee in 2 1/2 hours if I hit the traffic in Chattanooga right. With an almost two-hour drive to the Sipsey, I find myself looking North when I want to do a kamikaze day-trip. I still wish I could make myself fish the Sip more!

[jr]

Hiya to all

Yet another Ala Fly, I live in Gadsden

Was in Smokies last weekend, spent some money at LRO, weather to nasty to fish. Had a great time anyway

jr *

Canyon65 most of the fish I have caught in the Sipsey look like this...... I havent caught many of real colorful ones

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[robinma]

Its great to see so many alabamians here, I just recently found out that there is trout in our state ( I haven't been fishing to long to know anyway.) *I have been driving up to the elk outside of Lynchburg to fish my friends hunting camp for the past year though the sipsey is a lot closer to me at school in Auburn. *can any of yall give me an idea on where to fish below the smith lake dam? *I am planning on going in a couple of weeks once midterms are over, I think I will need a break then. *
My home is in Huntsville
War Eagle.