Today’s Photoblog: Noontootla Creek

[Zach Matthews]

That shot was taken at Noontootla Creek in North Georgia.

[steve154]

The fiber optic effects on the flies are cool as hell…how in the hell do you do that? I was thinking that maybe you were using glow in the dark materials, then I noticed that the leader in one pic is also glowing.

[Zach Matthews]

Blacklight.

[Gary Sundin]

Holy smokes that’s my river.  Great shot of the Toot.  While rare in the creek itself, brookies are fairly common in a couple of the tribs.  There is a drive up approach to section below the washout as well.  It is indeed an extremely remarkable fishery for GA.  For a combo of beauty/ruggedness/quality wild trout in GA, only the upper Chattooga near the NC border makes me happier.  Thanks for the great shot.

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[Roger Stouff]

Great shot.

I’m assuming Noontootla is an Indian name…anyone know what tribe, and what it means?

[Andrew Barclay]

I think its Cherokee.

[Mike L.]

Thus, Noontootla Creek has the southernmost population of brook trout in the world.  

There are brook trout in Patagonia.

[anonymous]

According to Nick Karas’ book, the Falkland Islands has the southern most brookies–put there in World War II by British officers who missed their trout fishing.

[Cameron Mortenson]

I never hear that book mentioned on the boards eye2fish…but the Nick Karas book “Brook Trout” is a great read with a LOT of information on this great fish.    

And maybe Zach meant…the southernmost NATIVE population of brook trout.  

[Zach Matthews]

I did exclude stockers from that comment.

[Mike L.]

They are reproducing just fine down there.

[Zach Matthews]

Loghova –

They were stocked at one point.

[Mike L.]

It’s a good thread.

[Zach Matthews]

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