NWC Fish Day One - Davidson River 21Apr16

I was on the Davidson River with Jeb Hall (morning guide) on a nice day near Asheville, NC. The water is smaller here in the Smokies than I am used to and there is no snowpack as snow melts after it falls typically. There are also no regular hatches. It was nice though even if a bit crowded. I was upstream and caught a triple of smallish fish (their were very few of larger fish - but I did see a few in a deeper pool)... brook, brown and rainbow. Stranger than truth - I was using just baby blanket fuzz. We were gonna move to a new spot and I asked about private water downstream near the shop and we were having a pretty good time so Jeb asked if I wanted to try it for free - "sure." I caught a big rainbow there on a cream midge - it was a non-spawning plant. I left Jeb for the bike shop with draft beer across the street - very cool; had lunch from a BBQ food truck - very good. Then I hit the Mill River and caught a gob of 4"-6" fish on dries. I returned to Asheville to meet up with my team and hit our 3rd brewery in the area, the excellent Wicked Weed, where I had Pernicious IPA (awesome) and Freak Of Nature DIPA.