This profile was built from public records (Tier A, the business own domain. The water is named in body prose on the cited page, in an on-page FAQ answering which rivers and states the shop guides: "We guide wade and float trips across three states: North Carolina (Watauga River, South Fork and North Fork of the New River, and other Western NC streams), Tennessee (South Holston and Watauga tailwaters and some wild creeks), and Virginia (New River and southwest VA waters)." The assignment to the North Carolina Watauga rests on that sentence and nothing weaker: the business itself places "Watauga River" inside the North Carolina list and separately names the Tennessee "Watauga tailwaters" as a different water. Readers should know the shop Watauga FLOAT trips are the Tennessee reach - elsewhere it writes "we can always float the Watauga River in TN" - so the North Carolina tie is to its wade water. The phone and the town are on the same page, the town as "Due South Outfitters is a fly fishing guide service and fly shop based in Boone, North Carolina." and the address 2575 NC-105 #60, Boone, NC 28607. The server-side fetch of this page returned HTTP 403, so the citation was confirmed through a second independent fetch, which returned HTTP 200.), last verified 2026-09-25. It was not provided by this business and does not mean the business endorses GuidedFloats. Bookings open once the guide claims it.
The Watauga is one of the North Carolina waters this shop guides, listed alongside the South and North Forks of the New River and other western North Carolina streams, and in this state the work is wading rather than floating. The quarry is trout: wild brook, brown and rainbow in the freestone water, stocked brown, rainbow and brook where the state puts them, with smallmouth bass fished on the warmer rivers. North Carolina wade rates are 300 dollars for a half day and 475 for a full day with one angler, rising to 350 and 525 with two. The wild streams fish March through October, while delayed harvest water runs from the first of October to the first Saturday in June. Anglers should be clear that this outfitter Watauga float trips are on the Tennessee tailwater downstream, not on the North Carolina reach; in North Carolina the Watauga is wade water.
Waters
| Water | Discharge | Percentile | Temp | 24h | Guides | Programs |
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| Watauga RiverNCWATAUGA RIVER NEAR SUGAR GROVE, NC | 106 cfs | n/a | n/a | ↓ falling | 2 | none yet |