Blowing Rock celebrated the beginning of warmer weather in the High Country on Saturday with the 38th Annual Blowing Rock Trout Derby Day at Broyhill Lake. Like each year, the family event drew kids and their parents from the High Country and beyond as they competed for various prizes based on their catches for the day.
This year marked the busiest year to date for the annual trout derby.
“We had more participants than ever this year,” derby coordinator Kim Rogers said. “130 t-shirts and 100 ‘Fish for Fun’ bags were gone by noon.”
Rogers, who is also the daughter of one of the derby’s founders that helped establish the event almost 40 years ago, was pleased to see that the event continues to give families the chance to bond over the love of fishing.