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Fishing the

Streams!

by Tad Murdock, Georgia Wild Trout Fly Fishing Guide Service
he North Georgia mountains offer many Blue Ridge and Ellijay
opportunities for beginners and avid anglers The trout streams north of Ellijay and around the Blue
Tto explore the local trout streams. Whether Ridge area provide opportunities in every season.
you are trout fishing with conventional gear or The small streams of the Cohutta Wilderness
have an abundance of small, wild trout
fly fishing, the small creeks from Blue Ridge that anglers can target. A handful of
eastward to Clayton hold populations of streams in the area are also
both wild and stocked trout. While many of stocked from April
the stocked streams only provide seasonal
fishing, visitors to the wild trout streams can
enjoy year-round trout fishing opportunities.
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