North Toe Practice

We met at the Riverside Park in Spruce Pine NC about 8:30 am. The temperature was about 34 degrees with about 15 mph winds and cloudy. All that equal miserable fly fishing conditions. I had wader insulators, two layers of fleece, thick buff, bogin, and my heavy rain coat. I forgot my simms gloves, and could have really used a goose down jacket under the rain coat. This is about as cold as it gets out on the water with these windy conditions.
The North Toe is a big river, probably the same size of the Watauga, with lots of