re: Fishing smoky mountain national park

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That’s not usually who I see out there fishing off the stock truck. It’s older guys and they get extremely territorial with each other. Honestly wouldn’t surprise me to see these types shove kids out of the way to get their pole in first.

Seen some weird things out and about on the rivers around here with these types.

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LOL I wouldn't doubt it.

I called a Georgia hatchery once and asked the lady which day of the week they stocked a stream that I knew would be easy for my 6 year old son to access. She told me she could not provide that information but if I would bring her a bucket she would go out back and scoop me up a limit LOL. I took the point and she was right, even if she could have used a little more tact.

We used to have a really good trophy only stream in Georgia and the summer between my Junior and Senior year me and a buddy made it our life's mission to catch a keeper trout out of the stream. We decided the best tactic would be to find out when it was stocked (we were unaware that it was only stocked a couple of times a year). We knew where the hatchery was and laid up nearby and waited for the hatchery truck to come....and it wasn't long before it came along, running about 160 MPH around those damned mountain roads and water going everywhere! We couldn't begin to keep up but we could for a minute...so we followed as long as we could and waited the next day at that point. We finally had that trucks route down cold...it never stocked the stream we were interested in but it did stock stockers in streams and we were basically just bringing a bucket to the hatchery at that point. Thought we were trout catching experts and I maintained that idea until I started chasing the damned things with the long rod....in my experience no matter where they are in the world they are as easy to catch as those Georgia stockers were on bait...but on a flyrod they can be very hard to catch at times....