It looks like winter didn’t really go away so much as give us a quick head fake before charging right back into our fly fishing in the Smokies. Yesterday was a relatively miserable kind of day; cold, wet, and snowy. The water was a little high after rain on Sunday.
I was actually expecting a pretty good day of fishing since it’s not unusual for spring mayflies to continue hatching on such days. The wet and cold conditions will often keep the bugs on the water and whip the trout into a feeding frenzy. In a nutshell, that didn’t happen.
There were a few bugs and a few fish on Little River, though. Take a look.
Fly Fishing the Smoky Mountains During a Spring Snow from Ian Rutter on Vimeo.
The weather forecast calls for sunny and warm temperatures starting on Wednesday.
