NWC Fish Day Two - Tuckaseegee River 23Apr16

I floated "the Tuck" aboard Chris Manley's new drift boat. Chris is a young effective guide who is taking accounting at Western NC University and working as a guide and has another job. He's multi-generations from the area. Chris's nice girlfriend Emma brought me a cupcake at the end of our float! The Tuckaseegee is a heavily hatchery-supported fishery with some browns, more rainbows and even more brookies. I caught a triple this day, on the first 3 fish, of recent additions to the river and maybe some holdovers; I caught a dozen on the 1/2 day float. The river was wickedly crowded on a Saturday and Chris skirted around many fishermen. Fishing was "meh." We stayed in an awesome cabin in the Great Smokies with a spa and I visited the best of the three breweries in town, Innovation, each day and tried their 5 IPAs. We ate 3 straight days at Guadalupe's because they had awesome food.