Lake James
Prime Fly Fishing near Western Lake James Real Estate
By Harris Realty

If you are intrigued with fly-fishing, the great outdoors, and the scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains, then McDowell County real estate with its tremendous views, small towns, and abundant trout is calling.  In fact, a wooded fly-fishing hideaway in Marion NC real estate, Old Fort NC real estate, Pleasant Gardens NC real estate, Woodlawn NC real estate, or Little Switzerland NC real estate near waterfront Lake James may be the perfect second home for the avid fly-fisherman. 

One of the most creative of the outdoor sports, fly-fishing is especially popular in the clear North Carolina rivers and creeks that rush and gurgle throughout western Lake James real estate in McDowell County.   Several fishing areas come highly recommended by lifetime fishermen:

Near your Pleasant Gardens cabin, lots of wild trout swim in Licklog Creek, Mackey Creek and Buck Creek. More are found along the Armstrong Creek and tributaries above the hatchery property and on the game lands of the Catawba River headwaters.

Little Buck Creek, the North Fork of the Catawba River at the headwaters to North Cove School at 1569 Bridge, and Mill Creek between the upper railroad bridge and the US-70 Bridge offer hatchery-supported fishing.

Curtis Creek and Newberry Creek near Mount Mitchell and the Blue Ridge Parkway are open year-round.  Their waters offer a variety of wonderful fishing experiences such as backcountry trout fishing on Newberry Creek as well as more accessible stream fishing on Curtis Creek itself.  Rainbow trout, brook and brown trout are plentiful.  Try the game-lands section of Curtis Creek; and the game-land portion and downstream of the U.S. Forest Service boundary at Deep Branch with its delayed harvest.  Artificial lures only are used on specific sections of the game-land portion of Newberry Creek.

In this part of the Blue Ridge National Heritage area, all generations of residents and visitors will find something interesting to do.  Hiking, climbing, rappelling, studying plants, birds and wildlife, skiing, or simply basking in the beauty of this special place, your extended family will allow you peaceful times on the river. 

You’ll meet fly fishermen of all kinds:  famous ones, consummate technicians, students of the sport, great historians, writers, story tellers, and pioneers of conservation and preservation of the environment.  And you’ll meet the fly-fishing innovators who always have a new idea, a new technique, a new fly pattern, new materials, or new equipment—most likely created in their own garages and shops.