The North Carolina chapter of Trout Unlimited held their 8th annual Rivercourse summer camp on June 13 - 19 and Lowcountryoutdoors.com was fortunate enough to join them at picturesque Lake Logan. This summer camp is open for youths age 13, 14 and 15 and has a curriculum that entails fly-fishing, study of stream side bugs and tying of flies. Lake Logan Episcopal camp is the setting where the youths and their instructors (or ghillies) hone their fly-fishing skills. The West fork of the Pigeon River pours out of the Pisgah National Forest in Haywood County and runs through the 300-acre camp before running into the 90-acre Lake Logan. Rainbow trout are stocked in the stream but wild trout are also present, and the youths come to learn the difference between these categories - as well as stream etiquette and how to release a trout in good health. No fish are kept during this course, and coldwater conservation is stressed so that these students can take that message back to their hometowns and schools. You can read MUCH more about Rivercourse in my feature article for the Charleston Mercury set to publish on July 2.
Photos by Jeff Dennis: The group photo from Rivercourse, Benjamin King with a fine brown trout, teamwork comes in the form of a youth angler and his mentor, TU's logo for a baseball hat and a license plate
Video: Shows a youth fly-fisherman landing a trout with his sure-handed mentor
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