The reason for the season. Fishing Season.

I may not fish as much as some people, definitely not as much as I'd like to, and honestly, I had gotten out of it for a long time. But I'm back now, mainly due to fly fishing and joining Trout Unlimited. I do still carry my spincaster with me and pull it out at least for a little while everytime I fish, but if I say I caught something, you can be 99% sure that it was caught with a fly.

I joined TU, the Coosa Valley Chapter 519 in the late winter of 2008. I was getting bored sitting at home all night, so I decided to join a club to get me out of the house, at least one night a month. I tried a photography club and found that they weren't very interesting, not to mention the fact they met in a church. We just sat in a circle talking about taking pictures. It felt more like a support group than anything else. Hi, my name is Mike, and, ah, well, I like to take photos, with my camera. "Hi, Mike! We love you!"

So then I saw the entry for TU, meets the last Thursday every month at the Landmark. I knew a couple of the guys, Paul DiPrima and John Furr, whose names are basically synonomous with TU around town. So I drove over to the Landmark and signed up. What I found out, and I was definitely wrong about, was that TU is not a fishing club. TU is all about stream conservation and saving these precious resources for our children and their children. They are so much more than just a fishing club.

Shortly after joining, I got a part-time job working at night. Mainly working every Thursday. So in a nutshell, I didn't get to attend any meetings for a while. Things changed at work later on and better enabled me to get back in it. Now I'm fairly involved in volunteering, at stream clean-ups and work days, and taking a weekend for the chili cook-off. In case anyone doesn't know by now, Chapter 519 of Trout Unlimited organizes a chili cook-off every October as their only fund-raiser for the year. All the scholarships, operating budget, donations to education and conservation groups, and other efforts are supported by the chili cook-off.

But back to fishing and why I created this blog. I decided to start fishing somewhere in northwest Georgia every Sunday. I may not make it every Sunday, but most every Sunday, I'll be out there, probably up to my knees in a creek somewhere with my flyrod going at it.

I'd like to relay as much information as possible to anyone who reads the blog, that they may also enjoy fishing at these locations. I don't always catch fish when I go out, and you may not either, but hopefully we can get to the point where we'll have detailed information about all the fishing spots. And that might, probably not, but might help us catch more fish in the future.