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    • Trout In The Classroom
    • RiverCourse Fly Fishing Youth Camp
    • Casting Carolinas
    • Wilson Creek Adopt-A-Stream and Stream Watch
    • South Mountain Adopt-A-Park
    • Stone Mountain State Park
  • Resources
    • Fly of the Month Patterns >
      • Dry Attractor >
        • Stealth Bomber
      • DRY FLY PATTERNS >
        • Adams Variant
        • Asher
        • Baigent's Variant
        • Blue Quill
        • BWO
        • BWO Catskill
        • BWO CDC Emerger
        • BWO Sparkle Dun
        • BWO Spinner
        • Carolina Wulff
        • CDC Biot Comparadun
        • CDL Comparadun
        • Coachman Variant
        • Crackleback
        • Dragonfly Dry
        • Dry Pheasant Tail Variant
        • Dun Fly, August Fly,Wasp Fly
        • Early Nelson
        • Egg Laying Caddis
        • Elk Hair Caddis
        • EZ Caddis
        • Female Adams
        • Fluttering Caddis
        • Gray Fox Variant
        • Griffith's Gnat
        • H & L Variant
        • Hopper Juan
        • Japanese Beetle
        • Jassid
        • Jim Charley
        • Klinkhamer
        • Lacewing
        • Light Cahill Catskill
        • Little Green and Little Yellow Stonefly
        • Mr. Rapidan
        • North Carolina Yellow Sally
        • Parachute Adams
        • Puff Diddy
        • October Caddis
        • Orange Forked Tail
        • Rattler
        • Red Headed Caddis
        • Smoky Mountian Candy
        • Trude
        • Rusty Spinner
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        • Yellow Palmer
      • Midges >
        • Grey Goose Midge Emerger
        • Morgan's Midge
      • Nymphs >
        • Brassie
        • Chironimid
        • Copper John
        • Crossover Nymph
        • Crow Fly
        • Damsel Fly Nymph
        • Deep Sparkle Caddis Pupa
        • Devil's Doorstop
        • Girdle Bug
        • Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear
        • Hot Creek Special
        • Mr. Rapidan
        • Peridgon Nymph
        • Realistic Stonefly
        • Royal Prince
        • Scud
        • Egan's Tasmanian Devil
        • Tups Indespensible
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        • UV Scud
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        • Orange Partridge Soft Hackle
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Alarka Spring and Fall 2019. See Calendar for Specific Dates.

Please  join us for our Alarka get together at Smoky Mountain Meadows Campground and Cabins in Alarka, NC near Bryson City, NC. To reserve your spot, please pay using the PayPal buttons below.
Alarka Cabin $165.00
Alarka Camping $65.00

Those wishing to pay by check, please mail to: Rocky River TU, C/O Paul Duffy, 19631 River Falls, Davidson, NC 28036
Alarka Trip:
  • Costs
    • Food/Camping: $65 for 3 nights
      • 3 dinners, 3 breakfasts and use of the campground.
    • Cabin: $165 
​The Smoky Mountain Outings are held twice a year, Spring and Fall. The event is a 4 day camping/fishing trip to the DH and Wild Western North Carolina streams. We stay at the Smoky Mountain Meadows Campground (hot showers, laundry room, ice on site). The chapter provides most of the meals for the trip for a FEE. The meals range from pizza, catered pulled pork barbecue, and catered fried chicken dinners over the three nights, and continental breakfasts in the mornings.
  • Hot Showers, Sheltered Mess Area
  • Meals: Thursday dinner (some early arrivals)
                Friday breakfast & dinner (many arrive late Friday afternoon due to work schedules)
                Saturday breakfast & dinner
                Sunday breakfast (pack up to leave by mid-morning to fish and travel home)
  • 2 truckloads of firewood for campfires, tall tales, guide talk from a local flyshop, and occasionally a fundraiser raffle.
  • Countless DH and Wild fishing opportunities within 45 minutes of camp.
  • Typically the Weekend following the early-April and early Fall NCWRC stockings on the Nantahala, Fires Creek, Tuckaseegee and Big Snowbird.

Spring Alarka 2018 Pictures and Info


Smoky Mountain Meadows Campground
Traditional Camping / Cabins available next to the campground 
755 E Alarka Rd. Bryson City, NC 28713

​Access to Big Snowbird DH, GSMNP Deep Creek, Cherokee waters, the Tuck and other streams is closer, yet the Nantahala DH is close as well.

Pics from 2015 alarka


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