Author Topic: Trout Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee (No Gun Content)  (Read 2742 times)

Offline Richard S

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The gentleman in this photograph, Casey Oakley, lives near Critter Creek.  He is the son of the late Wiley Oakley, one of those who convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and for whom any number of roads and places of interest are named in and around Gatlinburg, Tennessee.  (The Park is now sadly closed while the politicians in Washington, D. C., dither over the government shutdown and debt limit, and the politicians in Nashville dither over whether to provide interim funding for the Park's reopening.)

Meanwhile, just look at the 16.5-pound Rainbow Trout that Casey pulled from the Greenbrier River using 4-pound test line about 15 miles from Critter Creek:




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Offline Z

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That shure is a beatiful fish.
He ought to be proud of that catch! :)