I caught trout in 37 new creeks in NC (13 different counties) in 2024 to raise my total to 1086! Ten of them (those in bold print) came off my bucket list.
New NC Creeks in 2024:
1050 - Wallace Branch, Watauga County, wild browns and specs (1/27)
1051 - Cub Creek, Wilkes County, stockers (4/8)
1052 - Walker Branch, Haywood County, wild browns (4/10)
1053 - North Shoal Creek, Cherokee County, wild browns (4/11)
1054 - Dockery Creek, Cherokee County, wild rainbows (4/11)
1055 - Will Creek, Cherokee County, wild rainbows (4/11)
1056 - Alfred Creek, Cherokee County, wild rainbows (4/12)
1057 - Taylor Creek, Cherokee County, wild rainbows (4/12)
1058 - Pile Creek, Cherokee County, wild rainbows (4/12)
1059 - Thompson Creek, Cherokee County, wild rainbows (4/12)
1060 - Colvard Creek, Cherokee County, wild rainbows (4/13)
1061 - Harris Creek, Cherokee County, wild rainbows (4/13)
1062 - Laurel Creek, Watauga County, wild browns (5/10)
1063 - South Fork Laurel Creek, Watauga County, wild browns and specs (5/10)
1064 - North Fork Laurel Creek, Watauga County, wild browns and specs (5/10)
1065 - Juanita Branch, Graham County, wild rainbows (6/17)
1066 - Sunday Branch, Graham County, wild rainbows (6/17)
1067 - Littleflat Branch, Graham County, specs (6/18)
1068 - Flat Branch, Graham County, specs (6/18)
1069 - Upper Long Creek, Swain County, specs (6/20)
1070 - Coldspring Branch, Swain County, specs, (6/20)
1071 - Big Crabtree Creek, Yancey County, specs (6/28)
1072 - Rockhouse Creek, Mitchell County, wild rainbows (6/28)
1073 - Buchanan Creek, McDowell County, wild rainbows (6/28)
1074 - Gingercake Creek, Burke County, specs (7/2)
1075 - Left Fork Steels Creek, Burke County, specs (7/2)
1076 - North Harper Creek, Avery County, wild browns and specs (7/2)
1077 - Wildcat Branch, Macon County, wild rainbows (7/5)
1078 - Cane Creek, Macon County, wild browns (7/12)
1079 - Norton Mill Creek, Macon County, wild browns (7/12)
1080 - Left Fork Bowlens Creek, Yancey County, wild rainbows and specs (7/19)
1081 - Right Fork Bowlens Creek, Yancey County, specs (7/19)
1082 - Lee Creek, Macon County, wild browns and rainbows (11/5)
1083 - Frolictown Creek, Jackson County, specs (11/9)
1084 - Wilderness Prong, Jackson County, specs (11/9)
1085 - Little Green Creek, Jackson County, specs (11/9)
1086 - North Prong Lewis Fork, Wilkes County, specs and wild browns (11/16)
I have updated my excel spreadsheet list of creeks on the "Creeks" page, and here are links to my updated bucket list:
Finally, Here is my highlight video for 2024: