Trout Fishing The Lower Saluda River Tailrace
Kind of weird -- in a good way. That's the only way I can describe trout fishing on the Lower Saluda River Tailrace in Columbia, SC. While I'm used to fishing in the cool, shaded streams of the mountains, Columbia, SC, located in the Piedmont 100 miles from the mountains, is one of the hottest cities in the entire region. It was 94 degrees (not bad for the first week of May) when we stopped fishing in the afternoon, yet the water temperature was 58 degrees throughout the day. We saw everything from fly fishermen to out of control kayak renters to bass boats o
