Author Archives: Travis Stowe

Happy Holidays from River Through Atlanta!

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Happy Holidays! Fishing Report/Gifts We have been enjoying this exceptional weather during our Fall-brown-trout-blitz-bite with many specimen fish to the net on streamers and nymphs. Blue-winged-olive mayflies have been hatching steady bringing pods of fish to the surface for dry fly which we will enjoy all winter long. Lake Sidney Lanier has been in thermal transition and ...

Champion of the River!

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It was a wet, cold miserable November morning when Guide John McCloskey of Ackworth  Ga released a 34&7/8"length and 22" girth monster brown trout back into the Chattahoochee River below Buford Dam. He did not have a scale to weigh the fish just a measuring tape and camera. John makes his living guiding clients for ...

You still have a chance to buy tickets

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Down The Hatch Fly Fishing Film Festival Thursday night at Centerstage in Atlanta Free $25 Orvis gift card with ticket purchase! Tickets are only $25 so it's one heck of a deal! Purchase tickets here: http://bit.ly/1hOpexP This is going to be an amazing event thanks to our friends at Orvis Atlanta The best fly fishing films, free beer, and ...

The Guides Angle

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Fall/winter "turn-over" Here in the South our large impoundments stratify once a year caused by two distinct thermal layers created by our mild winter and summer seasons. In more northern latitudes harsh winters cause most lake surfaces  to freeze causing "turn-over" twice annually. It's all about the density and quantity of this water storage which consists ...