10 Reasons Dream Catcher's is The Best Fishing Store in Western NC

There are few different stores that retail fishing bait, lures, tackle and equipment in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina. We wanted to highlight 10 reasons why Dream Catcher's Fishing Supply is the THE BEST!

1. Reward Points Program
     Something we offer and believe to be a super unique feature of Dream Catcher's Fishing Supply is our Loyalty Card program! The loyalty card allows you to build store credit with every purchase! It's a great way to save up for the lure you always wanted or a new rod or reel! Swing by and we will hook you up with one! Almost forgot to mention they are FREE!

2. Gift Cards
     We understand it can be difficult shopping for a specific lure, rod, reel or piece of equipment for your special angler! We also understand getting the right gift can be tough so we make it easy on your by offering Dream Catcher's Fishing Supply gift cards. You can get gifts cards for any amount of money that are good towards everything in the store! Birthday, Christmas or whenever, the gift card makes a great gift!

3. Location
     When we had the idea of opening Dream Catcher's Fishing Supply we wanted to do it in a location that made sense to the anglers of Western NC. Our location at 21 Steeple Rd. Sylva, NC is literally on your way to every lake and river of Western NC from Asheville and Waynesville. We are right before the Exit to Lake Glenville, Bear Lake, Cedar Cliff Lake, Wolf Lake, Lake Toxaway, Tuckasegee River and it's tributaries. The next exit after our shop takes you to Lake Chatuge, Lake Emory/ Little Tennessee River, Lake Burton and the other lakes of North Georgia. Continuing past our shop takes you to Fontana Lake, Nantahala Lake, Lake Hiwassee, Appalacia Lake and the Nantahala River.

4. Lure/ Bait Selection
     At Dream Catcher's we offer the brands that are hard to get your hands on that are winning the tournaments! We carry premium American brands and a lot of premium Japanese brands that are hard to find. We are the official Megabass, Duo Realis, Deps, Huddleston, River2Sea, Ima, Evergreen, Strike King, Nichols, Jackall, 6th Sense, Optimum Baits, JIG X, 8up Jigs, Keitech, Bull Shad, 30acre, Bass Pro Shops and Reaction Innovation dealer of the Smoky Mountains. We carry the GOOD STUFF! We have the generic Zoom and Rapala that Walmart, Field & Stream and other outdoor stores carry as well! We carry live bait too! Our live bait includes all of your worms, shiners, small shad, crickets and a regional favorite RAINBOW TROUT!

5. Big Bait Section
     Trophy hunting big bass has taken over certain areas of the country with the Smoky Mountains definitely being one of those areas! We carry Big Baits, the trophy hunting lures and swimbaits that will help you catch the BIGGEST bass of your life! You have to come by and check out some of the GIANT Lures we offer to hunt the fish of a lifetime!

6. Custom Lures From Locals
     We carry brands that are made right here in the mountains of Western NC! Custom carved wood lures, custom hair jigs and beautiful hand tied living rubber jigs! We are proud to support local people who share our passion for watching people catch fish!

7. Technique Specific Layout
      Most stores are all over the map when it comes to shopping. Brands and lures are everywhere with no specific rhyme or reason why they are there. Our store is laid out by technique, finesse fishing, texas rigging, flipping, jigs, swim jigs, swimbaits, spoons, flukes, A-Rigs, topwater, frogs, propbait, jerkbaits, crankbaits, spinnerbaits. We can help you pick the perfect lure you are looking for!

8. Pricing
     We are able to beat the prices of other stores and online dealers because we buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman! With our prices being so competitive in combination with our rewards cards we really put the buying power in the hand of the customer!

9. Seminars
     Every Tuesday Night @7pm we have locals, guides and professionals share tips and techniques that work locally and regionally. Seminars cover lures, presentations, equipment, electronics and other key specifications that will help you catch more fish!

10. By The Fisherman, For The Fisherman
     We set Dream Catcher's Fishing Supply up for the anglers of Western NC! We stocked the store with lures, tackle, bait and equipment that anglers use here in the mountains! We also offer a lure request box if we are missing your favorite lure or color! We can get our hands on it! We are dedicated to making your fishing and shopping experience as awesome as possible. Our staff are fisherman and we genuinely care about you catching more fish!

Fishing Lake Burton

Lake Burton is nestled into the beautiful mountains of north Georgia and is LOADED with GIANT largemouth and spotted bass. The lake is home to some of the most incredible lake front houses in the country and best bass fishing in the south east! Blueback herring and trout are a main forage for bass in Burton and keep the quantity and quality of the way above average!

Lures
Shad imitation baits are the best players on Lake Chatuge, year round the fish intensely chase bait and are nomadic when it comes feeding on herring. Covering water looking for aggressive schools of feeding bass is the key. Flukes, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jerkbaits, topwater, swimbaits, underspins, spybaits, spoons and swim jigs are all great choices when chasing these big spotted and largemouth bass!

Areas
Points, shoals, pockets, steep channel swing banks and bays that have brush around them hold a lot of the big schools of spotted bass. The largemouth are beginning to act more like spotted bass but the big largemouth are still positioning around brush, grass, docks and other shallow structure. Deep brush always holds fish, whether they are fish in transition or suspended they will lock on to brush and wait for bait to go by.

Visit Dream Catcher's Fishing Supply to pick up all of your tackle and equipment for every lake in the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina. 21 Steeple Rd. Sylva NC.

Fishing Lake Chatuge

Overview:
Lake Chatuge is without question in the top 3 lakes of Western North Carolina! With its highland reservoir characteristics mixed with that famous Georgia red clay it makes Lake Chatuge a fisherman's paradise! Chatuge is loaded with GIANT spotted bass and GIANT Florida strain Largemouth! The fish are able to grow so well in Lake Chatuge because of the dense population of blueback herring, threadfin shad and big gizzard shad. The lake provides so much fishy habitat for the predatory fish species that a fisherman can really fish his or her strengths.

Lures
Shad imitation baits are the best players on Lake Chatuge, year round the fish intensely chase bait and are nomadic when it comes feeding on herring. Covering water looking for aggressive schools of feeding bass is the key. Flukes, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jerkbaits, topwater, swimbaits, underspins, spybaits, spoons and swim jigs are all great choices when chasing these big spotted and largemouth bass!

Areas
Points, shoals, pockets, steep channel swing banks and bays that have brush around them hold a lot of the big schools of spotted bass. The largemouth are beginning to act more like spotted bass but the big largemouth are still positioning around brush, grass, docks and other shallow structure. Deep brush always holds fish, whether they are fish in transition or suspended they will lock on to brush and wait for bait to go by.

Visit Dream Catcher's Fishing Supply to pick up all of your tackle and equipment for every lake in the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina. 21 Steeple Rd. Sylva NC.

5 Topwater Lures Missing from Your Tackle Box!

There are a ton of top water lures on the market and I know that every angler has their favorite and their go to's, but I wanted to highlight a few topwater lures that need to be in your tacklebox if they are not already in there!

1. Ima Little Stik- The Little Stik is an amazing walking and chugging lure! The splash of the small popping cup along with the walking action of the lure makes for incredible strikes on ravenous bass! It doesn't matter if it's a smallmouth, largemouth or spotted bass they absolutely tackle it!

2. Megabass Pop Max- The Megabass Pop Max is without question a game changing popper! With it's extremely well engineered design the Pop Max gives off an exacting lateral vibration and sound of a feeding or chugging bass. While the Pop Max chugs it displaces water and creates a feeding response in the bass within the radius of the strike zone. The fish look up and DESTRUCTION occurs!

3. Bill Lewis Stutter Step- The Stutter Step is an intimidating lure from first glance but this lure is as innovative as they come! With an incredible 180* turning action while walking it is just about able to walk in place. It makes a crazy commotion of splashing and bobbing and it triggers wild explosions. Trying burning across the top too, it has a wild side to side fall and get fish chasing and committed to eating!

4. River2Sea Whopper Plopper- The Whopper Plopper is probably something you own but for quite a few people it is still a mysterious ghost story. It is a propbait, buzzbait, walking bait, popper like, chugging top water that is very versatile! It is a fish catcher and has big bass potential. Very popular lure, don't hesitate to switch up on the sizes!

5. Reaction Innovation Vixen- The Vixen is a walking bait that is a little bit of a secret sauce lure! The beautiful smooth walking action combined with the small chugging and realism of action in the water makes a fish go CRAZY! Many times when it seems like you cant get a fish to strike a top water the vixen is the one getting chewed up. It's a phenomenal lure for breaking fish and a phenomenal lure to call'em up!

All of these lures are available here at Dream Catcher's Fishing Supply, 21 Steeple Rd. Sylva NC!

Fishing Fontana Lake NC

          Tucked into the valley's and cliffs of the Smoky Mountains in Western NC is arguably the prettiest lake in the United States, Fontana Lake! Fontana borders the south end of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and has some of the most amazing wildlife surrounding the shorelines! It is a phenomenal fishery filled with a ton of different species of fish. The lake has an abundance of largemouth bass, spotted bass, smallmouth bass, walleye, white bass, crappie, yellow perch, musky, rainbow trout, brook trout, brown trout as well as a few different salmon species and bream species. It is a fisherman's paradise as almost all of the fish are predatory species that key on the very prevalent shad populations on Fontana.

          Fontana Lake is filled with a few different shad species as they are the main food source for predatory fish. These species include threadfin, gizzard and blueback herring. Being that threadfin shad and blueback herring are nomadic bait fish a good majority of the predatory fish populations on Fontana are nomadic as well! Many of the big largemouth, spotted bass and smallmouth are found off shore on points, shoals and other navigational obstructions for traveling bait. Imitating these shad are without question the biggest key when using artificial bait! Shad imitating baits include spinnerbaits, flukes, jerkbaits, swimbaits, crankbaits, spybaits, A-Rigs and top water lures like spooks, poppers, wake baits and prop baits.

          The fish will often school on top chasing the threadfin and herring while the trophy sized bass will often times stay shallow hunting for bream and gizzard. It can be an extremely finicky and tough at times!
          At Dream Catcher's we excel in hunting big fish with artificial lures! If you are wanting to learn how to pattern big fish, learn new techniques while having a DREAM day give us a call
828-354-0250! Visit us here @ the shop 21 Steeple Rd. Sylva NC