Best Kept Secret for Hopper Fishing on the East Coast

High up in the mountains of North Georgia where the spring fed trout streams run clear and cold year round, there is a two mile catch and release section of trophy trout water that offers fly anglers unbelievable dry fly hopper fishing during the summer months. This secret trout stream is Noontootla Creek, located in Fannin County Georgia, and it produces brilliant colored rainbow and brown trout consistently in the 20 inch range. The crazy thing about this is there are much bigger trout in this section of river. That twenty inch mark is about our average size trout that comes up and inhale’s our foam hopper and beetle patterns.

The two-mile stretch of trophy trout water sits on a 1500 acre private preserve that’s been unavailable to the public for well over fifty years. A pure genetic line of rainbow and brown trout has been passed down from the 1960s when the Georgia DNR ceased trout stockings on Noontootla Creek. Since then this pure genetic line has been protected and passed down from generation to generation through natural reproduction in the stream.

Generally you don’t see this kind of great hopper fishing in the higher elevation trout streams of the Appalachian mountains. The reason you see it on Noontootla Creek inside the preserve, is the farming of corn and milo on the property. This provides exceptional habitat and food for the land born terrestrials (Grasshoppers, Beetles, Ants) that end up in huge numbers floating down the stream and eventually in the stomachs of the resident trout. The trophy trout on the preserve gorge themselves on this available food source just like they do out west during the summer months.

This epic terrestrial fishing starts mid-June and runs through September every year, and it offers fly fishermen some of the most exciting hopper fishing on the east coast for trophy trout. If you like seeing explosive strikes, toilet bowl flushes, and giant white mouths sucking in dry flies this is a place you need to check out.

If this testimony doesn’t convince you, take a couple minutes to check out this video that was filmed last year on Noontootla Creek during the hopper season.

If your serious about fishing this pristine trout stream during this amazing annual event, please contact Capt. Kent Klewein with Reel Job Fishing to set up your fishing trip reservations. He lives two miles from this stream and is the local guide and expert on this killer trout water.

Don’t make the mistake of waiting until the last minute to book your trip. To ensure you get in on the action during the terrestrial feeding frenzy, you’ll need to start looking at booking your trip the month of March or April.

For more information on Booking Reservations on Noontootla Creek Farms please visit or contact:

Capt. Kent Klewein
Reel Job Fishing, LLC
www.kent-klewein.com
info@kent-klewein.com
770-330-7583