Welcome!
My family and I currently live about one hour from the nearest Wild Brook Trout Stream. Granted we would like to live even closer but work keeps me where I am.
The outdoors is a family affair. Our family likes to fish and hike. We usually take at least one camera wherever we go.
I have been an avid backpacker and outdoorsman my whole life. The photo of Eagle Creek at the right was taken a few years ago when I went in for a five day solo trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP). Although Hazel Creek seems to get all of the notoriety in the GSMNP, Eagle Creek has finer fishing, in my opinion, is absolutely beautiful and also has minimal human traffic. For the five days I was in there I didn't see one person.
A Fishing Epigram:
Fishing, if I a fisher may protest,
Of pleasures is the sweet'st, of sports the best,
Of exercises the most excellent,
Of recreations the most innocent.
But now the sport is marde, and wott ye why
Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.
-Thomas Bastard (1598)
