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        • NC Camo Coalition
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  • Calendar
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    • RiverCourse Fly Fishing Youth Camp
    • Casting Carolinas
    • Wilson Creek Adopt-A-Stream and Stream Watch
    • South Mountain Adopt-A-Park
    • Stone Mountain State Park
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      • Fly of the Month Patterns
      • RRTU Class Recipes
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        • Adams Variant
        • Asher
        • Baigent's Variant
        • Blue Quill
        • BWO
        • BWO Catskill
        • Carolina Wulff
        • Cricket
        • Damsel Fly Parachute
        • Dun Fly, August Fly,Wasp Fly
        • Early Nelson
        • Egg Laying Caddis
        • Elk Hair Caddis
        • Female Adams
        • Gray Fox Variant
        • Griffith's Gnat
        • H & L Variant
        • Hopper Juan
        • Mr. Rapidan
        • Japanese Beetle
        • Jassid
        • Klinkhamer
        • Light Cahill Catskill
        • Little Green and Little Yellow Stonefly
        • North Carolina Yellow Sally
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        • Parachute Adams
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        • Orange Forked Tail
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        • Cock-y-Bundhu
        • Cooper Bug
        • Grizzly King
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        • Trude
        • Tups Indespensible
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Alarka Spring and Fall. 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.
Please let us know in the registration form if you can help with the event. We have opportunities for:
  • Grocery Shopping (1-2 people, an hour or two Wednesday before, preset Costco list)
  • Cold Item Shopping Thursday Night (1 person, 30 min, set list, after Pizza)
  • Thursday Pizza Round-up (2 people, 5-8 pm, pre-order at noon.)
  • Friday Dinner Crew (3 people, 5-8pm)
  • Friday Breakfast Crew (1-2 people, 6:30-7:30 am)
  • Saturday Dinner Crew (3 People, 5-8pm)
  • Saturday Breakfast Crew (1-2 people, 6:30-7:30 am)
Dinners are catered with a set menu, the team is responsible for pickup, setup, and teardown at camp pavilion.
Breakfast will be continental, the team is responsible for setup and teardown in a cabin.
Pizza Dinner involves set orders and pickup of pizza.
All costs paid with RRTU credit card/check or re-imbursed.

To reserve your spot, please register using the button below which will allow you to pay via check or credit card/PayPal.
REGISTER FOR ALARKA Coming Soon!

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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