HEard of this???

[Jeff Jones]

Anyone ever heard of a river in NC called the Big Snowbird. e-mail me if you like. I'll find it own my own if you 'ol secret keepers don't tell !
DISCLAIMER: that last statement was intended to be read with a light-hearted feel...

[Jeff Jones]

c'mon guys. If I find it, I'll tke YOU ! I hear it's got a " special" treat in it !

[Woolly Bugger]

Big Snowbird Creek (old railroad junction to mouth) is a hatchery supported stream in Grahmn County, NC I think Eric Rudolph is fishing this stream. Good luck.

http://www.kbrcomm.com/ncfish/Mountain_Trout.html

[edwin]

jeff,
This used to be a good trout stream, until the forestry service ruined it. They are cutting (probably as I write this) several hundred acres along the stream. The service claims that this was required to "salvage" timber that was knocked down during high wind and/or ice storms. If you don't know about the Forestry Service's infamous "salvage" rider that they included on a bill of Congress many years ago, see an environmental lawyer's site at www.wildlaw.org. It's really just another fine example of how the ****-eating politicians can ruin our environment and trout streams!! Anyway, an environmental attorney, named Ray Vaughn, who lives here in Montgomery and runs Wildlaw tried to stop them, but a federal judge denied his appeal. *******s!!! Sorry, but the whole thing just infuriated me.

[edwin]

jeff,
Forgot to tell you that the actual total acreage of timber that was really down total just a few acres (maybe even just one), but he FS said they needed to cut more than 100 acres!! Losers!

[Jeff Jones]

Well, that stinks. Someone said it had tremendous Brookies in it, and at the risk of being slammed - I've got a 23" Bow mounted, and a 18" brown. These were caught in my early days and neither is a wild fish. If I caught one of the big ones( like the ones that seem to be 6 or 7 lbs. ) outta Smith's, He'd be going on the wall, too ! I really would like to have a Brookie, they are my favorite trout. I wouldn't keep one from a wild stream, but then again I wouldn't crucify someone who did. I wouldn't think much of their actions,but if they caught it, it's their fish. Oh - sorry to open THAT can of worms again !