The locally trained staff at Serenity Now Outfitters can guide you on nearly any fishing adventure you can imagine. Whether your float fishing the Greenbrier or New River for smallmouth bass, or wade fishing the numerous mountain and spring creeks for wild browns and native brook trout, the knowledgeable and professional guides at Serenity Now Outfitters can put you on fish in a way only a team of local die-hard fisherman can.
Float fishing trips on the Greenbrier River allow anglers a wonderful way of pursuing smallmouth bass, some of which weigh upwards of 6lbs. Fly fishing for wild brown trout on their popular walk and wade trips can yield butter bellied brown pushing well beyond 20 inches in some streams. Native brookies send clients to some of the most remote and highest elevation areas of the state on our wilderness brook trout trips.
| Wade Trips Half Day 1 person: $185 2 person: $285 Full Day 1 person: $285 2 person: $385 *prices do not include gratuities* |
Float Trips half Day: $300 per raft* full day: $450 per raft* raft price is for up to 2 anglers in boat. |
| Wilderness Brook Trout Trips full day only: $325 |
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7-17-08
I had the pleasure of spending the evening with Troy Gardo, a resident of Canada and a genuine lover of the outdoors. Our trip consisted of an entry level introduction to fly fishing, in addition to an introduction to recreational kayaking. Today would be Troy’s first adventure in a kayak, as well as his first time casting the long rod.
We spent the first hour or so going over the basics of kayaking, using the very stable Old Town Dirigo 106 Angler addition kayaks. The next hour consisted of fly casting and fishing instruction, in which Troy took to rather quickly. We found a small helgrammite, a tiny water snake, and an adult dobson fly, which is the adult stage of the helgrammite larva, several crayfish, and damselflies along the bank as we wade fished.
Our last remaining time on the water was spent fly fishing from the kayaks, in which Troy enjoyed just as much, if not more, than wade fishing from the bank. After this evening’s outing, I would say that it is safe to say that Troy will be fly fishing again in the very near future.
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12-3-08
Arriving on stream just after 10am, I was joined today by a Lewisburg resident by the name of John Francis. John is a native South African, and is currently organizing a 600 mile bike tour there. This was John's first time on a guided fishing trip, which allowed me to not only introduce him to Second Creek, but also to an array of techniques and a general fly fishing and casting background. We spent a small amount of time on entomology, witnessing three different species of caddisfly larva and many mayfly nymphs
on the underside of submerged rocks.
Around noon, the rising activity started to heat up. An afternoon hatch of small black midges brought several of the smaller browns to the surface. John ended up catching one or two on the surface, and one aggressive brownie on a small cone headed bugga.
The day was judged a success by both of us. We had been blessed to have the entire stream to ourselves, with the exception of the ever present great blue herons perched just on the side of the ice covered banks. It was a little cold on the stream today, but with the sun and steadily rising trout, we were able to faze out the low mercury levels and concentrate on the enjoyment at hand. It was definitely a good day to be on the water!
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2-9-09
Ice and snow melt will continue to produce slow fishing conditions in the next few days. The spring creeks in the area are fishing better than most of the freestones, with surface activity consisiting of midges, bwo's, and stoneflies. The importance of the hatching stoneflies will increase as they become more available to the trout in the next month or two. The warmwater fishing has been very slow, although a few fish are being caught, including musky, walleye, smallmouth bass, and largemouth. Spring is just a hop, skip, and a jump away, so the conditions and feeding activity will only improve for both warmwater and coldwater inhabitants.
