There’s 20,000 reasons to get excited about spring trout fishing in Cherokee, North Carolina. Cherokee’s Cast into Spring Tournament will be held March 28, 2014 – March 30, 2014. It is one of four such major events planned at these waters this summer and autumn. The Cherokee’s Cast into Spring Tournament requires just an $11 entry fee to compete for $20,000 in tagged fish in the rivers on the Qualla Boundary (excluding the 2.2 miles of catch-and-release waters).
Tagged fish will be specially stocked for this event, and when you catch one, you redeem it for cash prizes ranging from $20 to $500. Prizes can be redeemed at Artist Row on US 441. Open to all ages and for all legal fishing methods. Register to redeem cash prizes anywhere fishing licenses are sold in Cherokee.
They say that trout are plentiful at Cherokee and anglers won’t need luck, but you will need a permit. Found here is 30 miles of privately stocked, freestone streams. It is some of the best—and longest—privately owned and stocked fishing waters east of the Mississippi. For more info visit www.fishcherokee.com This informative article is a reprint from Don Kirk's on line magazine "southern Trout". If you are a fisherman at all interested in trout in the trout or for that matter anywhere you should subscribe to this free magazine.