Hello from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

[BulaBeans]

“Saying you're guilty of swinging a fly to unsuspecting.... makes it sound like a code for something else. The Blue Ridge mountains seem like a nice place to light a pipe. I know the mountains up in PA are great for that.”

Yeah. It’s code Blue-line fly fishing which has been my first love for many, many years.

I was fortunate last summer to spend several weeks doing a job in WV around the Seneca Rock area in between Petersburg and Franklin area along the Allegheny front. It was pretty country. I had hope to fly fish for trout there but didn’t get to.

 

[BulaBeans]

Welcome.
From Asheville myself, used to fish Little Snowbird Creek for specks. Miss it.

Very nice. I live close to Big Rock Creek and the Toe River. Near the Roan. I get ti Asheville quite regularly. Glad to know someone so close.

 

[BulaBeans]

Welcome from Virginia 30 Mins from the trail myself being 30 mins west of Richmond out in the Burbs.
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Glad to have you here and several members are pretty much your neighbors!

Very nice! My MIL lives in Leesburg, just outside DC. My work takes me to Bristol quite often.

 

[WVOldFart]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia. If you have a Golden Retriever then I like you already. I live in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia and only about an hour from Seneca Rocks. West Virginia is a beautiful State that has many wonderful areas for fishing.

 

[BulaBeans]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia. If you have a Golden Retriever then I like you already. I live in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia and only about an hour from Seneca Rocks. West Virginia is a beautiful State that has many wonderful areas for fishing.

Golden are the best! I love that part of the state. It was drier than I thought it would be. And that Allegheny front! Oh my! Almost as pretty as where I live—but I’m a little biased.

 

[AroEnglish]

Welcome from mountainous Michigan!

 

[Pipeoff]

Welcome from W NY.

 

[solideogloria86]

Welcome. Born and raised in Weaverville/Asheville area. Currently living in sagebrush country. Northern Nevada.

 

[Bbailey324]

Welcome from Texas. Don't mind throwing a fly line myself.

 

[Home Brewing Piper]

 

[BulaBeans]

Welcome. Born and raised in Weaverville/Asheville area. Currently living in sagebrush country. Northern Nevada.

I know that feeling. I lived in Western Montana for several years. In the Bitterroot Valley, south of Missoula.

 

[BulaBeans]

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Very cool. Lived in Kenosha for six years.

 

[Tyke Piper]

Welcome to the forums from northern England

 

[MattRVA]

Welcome from Virginia

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Stupid fact: Lewis & Clark visited this area as well on the Mississippi river. Wisconsin was an important connection from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi and Gulf before roads. I live 20 miles from Portage, so named because the rivers cross moving North (Fox ending in Green Bay) and South (Wisconsin ending in the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien) allowing a traveler to portage their canoe or goods across the ~2 mile barrier.

 

[Mortamyhr]

Hello from Nashville!

 

[MRW]

G'morning all. Joining in on all the fun.

A bit about me: I've been a briar-lover and smoker for 10 years now. Also known to partake of (not necessarily in this order) a fine bourbon or a single malt with a pint of Guiness. I'm also guilty of swinging a fly to unsuspecting Southern Appalachian Brookies when the occasion occurs. And I love early American colonial history (some of my family were some of the earliest to settle in Massachusetts, and I have an ancestor who gave maps to the Lewis & Clark expedition of the Upper Missouri). I live in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, which I enjoy hiking immensely along with my wife and my Golden Retriever, River.

Nice to meet everyone.

Hello and welcome to the Forum from Deep in the Heart of Texas. You will find this site to be informative and the members insightful (and at times, most entertaining). Enjoy your stay!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Welcome from the Central Coast of California!

 

[Annaresti Red]

Welcome!

 

[gkunkel]

G'morning all. Joining in on all the fun.

A bit about me: I've been a briar-lover and smoker for 10 years now. Also known to partake of (not necessarily in this order) a fine bourbon or a single malt with a pint of Guiness. I'm also guilty of swinging a fly to unsuspecting Southern Appalachian Brookies when the occasion occurs. And I love early American colonial history (some of my family were some of the earliest to settle in Massachusetts, and I have an ancestor who gave maps to the Lewis & Clark expedition of the Upper Missouri). I live in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, which I enjoy hiking immensely along with my wife and my Golden Retriever, River.

Nice to meet everyone.

Welcome from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia!