Tom Graham and Maitland meet me at the shop on Saturday for a half day of fly fishing on the South Holston River. Tom has been fly fishing for a long time while Maitland has just picked up the sport. They meet me here at the shop about 12pm and we hit the water. When we got to the water the pulse had just cleared out and the water was still up with a good flow. I got Tom rigged up and before I could even get Maitland rigged up Tom had a couple of fish on. So I took Maitland down below Tom and we hooked up right away with a nice Rainbow. The water was cold and the fish were hot man did they fight hard. I worked on Maitland’s casting and mending an he was into fish. Tom was working the water ahead of while and hooking up really on Blake’s Little Stripper. The fish started slowing down so we moved up stream to a nice run. When we got to the run the fish were rising well so I put Maitland on a Blue Winged Olive Comparadun with a midge dropper he hooked up on a couple of fish right off the bat on the dry. I moved down and switch Tom over to a dry and dropper rig also, Sulphur Dry with midge dropper. Tom got several hits on the midge dropper and caught one hard fighting Rainbow. As Maitland worked his way up the run I spotted a hugh Brown sitting in the top of the run Maitland had already fished over the fish several time, but we just could not get him to take. As the sun disappaired behind the mountain the fish stopped feeding and the temp dropped quickly. It was a great day on the water with both Tom and Maitland. With good fishing to boot.

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Matt Champion 

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