Mad River - Fairborn Ohio 8/28/10

What to do on a Saturday, hmmm, don't have my son, girlfriend is busy somewhere else...blue bird skies, hot, sunny....not the best fishing weather, yep gonna go hit a river....which one? I have a two hour window of opportune time to take advantage of, so it had better be close. That leaves me with two choices, one being the Mad River, the other would be the Little Miami River. Both the same distance, so it's a toss up.....let's do the "Mad".

That was my thought process last Saturday. It was about noon that day when I got in the car, by myself to find some small mouth bass action. The weather was more like beach or pool weather but I really wanted to go out and hit a few fish. So that's what I did. I wasn't out long and I did hit a few chunky little bass. I ran into a couple of older fellas on the river, catfisherman. They were good ole boys. Nice talking with em. They were the old types that like to gab a lot. Wanted to check out my gear since I was decked out in my waders and such....

Below are a couple of quick vids I shot that day. I was glad I made the choice to get out and fish. Just another Adventure, by way of fishing....

Video 2, Cohutta wilderness TroutPacking Trip

Here is the second video of our series of videos we have put together from out trip into North Georgia. The Cohutta Wilderness. Just a fun little video. But I must warn those out there that have sensitive ears, the is a bit of foul language in this video....I know it's hard to believe that a couple of guys fishing used some bad language, I was shocked myself...haha......

Video Of Our Drive Into The Cohutta Wilderness

A few weeks ago my buddy Marshall and I went to North Georgia to hike into the Cohutta to do some trout fishing on the Conasauga River. I blogged about this, but at the time no video was ready to post. Now I have it ready, or should I say I have Video part 1 ready. I will be posting the other videos soon. You can check out all our videos at youtube. www.youtube.com/riverhunters
Oh, by the way, there is some bad language in this video. Might not want kids to hear some of this foul language.

Hiking the Cohutta Wilderness, and the Conasauga River.

Take a drive and head on over to North Georgia. Why? To hike into the Blue ridge Mountains. This is exactly what myself and a friend accomplished Marched 22 - 28th 2010.

Cohutta Wilderness

We began our drive on Monday morning March 22nd, 2010 about 7:30am. Not a long drive, only 426 miles, we took out time and made a few stops along the way. Coffee was going right thru us......the day was gray and cloudy, and as we passed thru Knoxville, TN. we saw it was snowing, this actually made us excited to get on the mountain(Cahutta Mountain).....and that's what it was doing as we drove up the pass to the trail head, snow, snow, snow. It was so awesome, we would begin our hike in while it was snowing all around us.

The trails are steep and rocky, but not a bad hike at all. We started at the Hickory Trail Head, which is accessed by FS road 630 in Crandall, Georgia. It is a beautiful place to go. The river is awesome, clear, clean in that area.....this was early spring so plants and animals where just getting out...trees were not turning green yet.....so awesome to be in that area.

Trout Fishing

This was why we went. For the trout. I had been doing some reading and thought we would find out if it was as good as we expected. I am gonna just say that the fishing was hard, and we did not do well. Those native trout are shy and skittish. But I am not convinced there are a whole lot in there. I mean, it's not a stocked fishery, but I expected at this time of year a lot more action, let me just say we did more fishing that catching,......but that's ok and that's the way it goes sometimes....but it's a beautiful river and the area is awesome....I just don't think there a huge numbers of trout there....we did our better fishing as we traveled up stream, closer to the head waters....

The Cahutta wilderness inside the Chattahoochee National Forest is a great place to go hike and camp. But we noticed a lack of respect for this place by other visitors. There was a lot of small trash left by others. Not a welcome site in a place like this....You might read that this place is hard to get into. But that is just not true. Lots of trails, and easy access. I say go visit, take a hike and you will be in heaven. Just do us all a favor and and pick up the trash you see. please. This is what we did, and others should do it as well.....