Ken Wilbanks is a lifelong outdoorsman and fly fisherman offering guided trout fishing excursions throughout Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee and Northern Georgia. His journey has included three decades of fly fishing in the Pacific North West, Yellowstone Basin, the Rocky Mountain States, New England, and all throughout Dixie. He believes fishing is more than a sport. It`s a moving medit
ation, the ultimate communion with nature, a way of living and of thinking. It is an exercise in strengthening the muscles of hope and faith. It is life - the way it is meant to be lived and experienced every day.
Madison County North Carolina is home to some of THE most beautiful and plentiful trout waters in America. The unprecedented beauty of the landscape, the breathtaking streams and rivers cascading through pristine national forests and dependable stocks of rainbow, brown and the brook trout set the stage for THE fly fishing experience of a lifetime. Hot Springs is in the northwestern corner of Madison County and is an epicenter for fly fishing. Within ten miles there are at least half a dozen world class fishing streams, creeks and rivers: Spring Creek, the French Broad River, Meadow Fork Creek, Hickey Fork Creek, Big Laurel Creek, and Shelton Laurel Creek.
