It was March 2, 2019. The plan was to meet at Wilson’s creek in Mortimer NC, to pre-fish for the upcoming Wilsons Creek Clean-Up tournament in two weeks on March 23rd. Evidently, the North Carolina game and fish commission decided to wait until March 4th to stock rather than their original plan of March 1st, so we simply decided to try another venue. I actually prefer fishing for wild trout or holdovers over stocked fish, as it makes things much more challenging, but I wanted to fish the creek as it would exist come tournament time. I have learned that pre-fishing a venue before it is stocked, is completely night and day different than when it comes tournament time and it is full of stocked fish. We did have a tournament coming up on the Watauga River in Boone, NC on March 9th, and
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