Ralph Gaurio and his wife Lara Lynn came over from Toyo, Japan to fish with me on the South Holston River while they were here to visit there daughter. We meet up here at the shop, and headed to the river. We got the river and there were a few fish rising, and I spotted a couple of big Browns sitting in a hole. So I rigged Ralph up and he started fishing for the Browns. Then I rigged up Lara Lynn and she headed upstream to fish for some for the rising fish. Ralph worked over the big Browns for a good well, and caught several nice sized Browns out of the hole. He then finally hooked into one of the Browns. After a good long fight Ralph got the fish into the shallows and we landed the Big Brown trout. We took a few pictures of the 28″ Brown and watched her swim away. What a great catch on a size 22 fly and 6X tippet. After lunch we headed upstream to see if ther were any Sulphurs coming off. There was not as big of a hatch as there had been, but there was fish rising. We were able to hook some of the fish on the dries, and then the fish switched to midges. We caught several before we called it a day on midge droppers.

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Tight Lines,

Matt Champion 

South Holston Fly Shop