Exams, stress and not much fishing

Haven't been able to post in a while due to all the work for school that my professors decide to cram into the last week of classes and exams!  I've done only a little fishing lately.  I fished once during the week with Justin at a little wild creek about 20 minutes from campus and we caught a few wild browns but for whatever reason, not as many as we usually manage to fool.  Most of mine came on the dropper copper john and Justin managed a few on a sulphur pattern dry fly. 

I went to the Elk river down in Banner Elk on Saturday and fished it way up higher than I ever have with my buddy Garret.  He wanted to try a spot through town where it was apparent that nobody fishes and we did quite well.  We fished that section for an hour or so and then moved back down to the section just above the lake at Lees McRae.  We also did well there.  There were fish rising all the way through the section we fished and we threw our stimulators at them and they ate em up. 

Then I fished twice in one day on Sunday.  I fished for some brooks with my buddy Clay in the early afternoon and came back to town and Justin called me wanting to fish for a couple hours close to school so we went to the Middle Fork of the New River.  The brook trout weren't "on" but we did catch quite a few.  Of course all were on dries.  When I fished with Justin at Middle Fork, we fished the gorge section and caught some fish pretty consistently for two hours or so and then turned around when the creek chubs decided to come out in force.  We caught a few wild browns and rainbows in the gorge section.  I wish one of those browns would grow big enough to start eating those stupid chubs....

As for the future, I am looking forward to getting done with exams and I am trailering my boat down to my cottage at Harkers Island and going fishing for cobia this weekend.  Who knows, I may get a chance to chuck a "flash tail whistler" fly I bought from Bay Street Outfitters at a free swimming cobe with my new 12wt Sage!  Needless to say, I've been thinking more about cobia than my exams lately....

I only have two pictures from recent adventures

-Will