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Roanoke River stocked with trout downtown today

Just passed by the Roanoke River (downtown) and saw fishermen. It got a dose of trout this morning.

I stopped and checked out a few holes but couldn’t see much. That’s a good thing. The water has some color. It’s not bad. In fact, it looks about perfect.

In the stocked stretch I saw at least a dozen anglers so the word is out.

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  1. Huntersdad | March 8, 2013 at 7:21 am

    Doggone it Mark! You won’t tell us exactly where you caught that nice Muskie at, but then you give all the retired and non-working trout fishermen a full 10 hour jump on the rest of us poor guys that had to work all day….what’s up with that? As punishment I demand you post the GPS coordinates on that Muskie hole!
    Just ribbing you MT….that was one great Muskie….congrats. I’ve been smallmouth fishing on the New several times and have seen a couple of muskies bust the top of the water, but am yet to be lucky enough to accidentally hook up with one them. Maybe I need to check into some of that high dollar Muskie gear you were writing about. Have a good weekend.

  2. Short coach | March 8, 2013 at 8:23 am

    Who’s gona catch a big fish?

  3. David/AlleghanyRidgeRunner | March 11, 2013 at 9:07 am

    I caught a rather nice 2 3/4 lb Rainbow (Picture sent to Mark) as well as some other nice 11-14 inch browns. It was a great day, ALOT of people. one draw back to fishing on the Roanoke river is that people do not seem to have respect for one another. I actually had a guy and girl walk in on me 5 ft downstream as I was working a nice pool. The girl reels my line in and once she unhooks me from her line, she throws my line on the bank, LOL! I busted out laughing and vacated. I did however come back to that exact spot 45 minutes later and landed the nice Rainbow mentioned earlier. At the second low water bridge, there was a behemoth of a Brown landed by a guy. That fish was about 23 inches long and weighed in just over 6 lbs. What a nice day on the river.

  4. alvin davis | April 3, 2013 at 11:42 am

    the people who follow the trucks are about as low as those who bait the deer.

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Mark Taylor.

While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.

Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.

After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.

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