Brian at Hickory Nut Gap

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Life in Asheville & the French Broad River watershed. Rivers, salt marshes, tidal creeks, conservation. UNC grad. Former financial & tax consultant. Now I'm a fish bum, it seems. #humanist #globalist #flyfishing #waterman

Boneyard beach (dead tree trunks and limbs absorbed by the sea due to decades of beach erosion) on a cloudless day with bright sun overhead.
Saltmarsh with partly cloudy sky above, in Beaufort County, SC. Sea Islands. Gullah/Geechee cultural protection area. Lowcountry. Fly fishing.
The Nolichucky River Gorge in Pisgah National Forest, NC, where illegal logging is being allowed by the US Forest Service. One of the most cherished wild places in WNC, the gorge is important to me as a smallmouth bass angler on the river.
15cm fillet knife, antique, made in Finland. Showing its age.
Wet wading boots, personal flotation device, and wading staff perched on a chair in the backyard against a deciduous forest background in full summer glory in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Rocky bluff in late winter overlooking the French Broad River in Madison County, NC, USA. The bluff features a few evergreens and still-bare deciduous trees mixed in with the rocky outcroppings.
Video view from a raft in the middle of a mountain river full of rapids, shoals and boulders flanked by surrounding mountain slopes covered with a summer canopy of deciduous foliage.
Photo of Blue Ridge mountains with rime ice...from my front porch on winter solstice morning 2024.
Swannanoa River, Asheville NC. Photo: MountainTrue
Riverbed and homes destroyed by Hurricane Helene, Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. AP photo by Mike Stewart.
Beautiful pastel color on redfish's tail.
Redfish caught and safely released today in the saltwater on a fly rod.
Historic praise house, St. Helena Island, SC
Cover of Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean