Living in close proximity to Great Smoky Mountains National Park we see a few things in abundance: stunning scenery, wildlife like black bears, and tourists who have very little experience in the outdoors. We’ll often chuckle about some of the pre-conceived ideas some people have about wildlife and wilderness, but try to educate people whenever […]
Water Conditions Improving in the Smoky Mountains
Water levels are still pretty high but the good news is that they are starting to get negotiable for fishing again. Don’t expect to be able to wade anywhere and there’s a good chance you won’t be able to cross the stream, but there is a good chance you’ll be able to catch a fish. […]
Misty Mountain Time Lapse
Mist on the Smoky Mountains as the weather clears after recent rain [youtube]http://youtu.be/vCHfjnFAnHE[/youtube]
Unprecedented Water Conditions Across East Tennessee & The Smoky Mountains
We’re not the oldest fly fishers in the region, but we have been guiding a long time now. Charity has been doing this professionally for about 12 years now and Ian has been at it since 1995 plus we’ve been around the area longer than that. We’ve never seen or heard of water conditions like […]
Guiding a Guide
It’s often the case that Charity and I are on the water for days at a time from the spring thru the autumn, but we’ll look up and notice we haven’t fished together in months. So much of our free time is spent doing things with our kids. Even as we take the kids fishing […]
Keeping Our Fingers Crossed
Take a look at stream flows across East Tennessee and another look at TVA releases on the tailwaters and there’s good reason for optimism. After another week of rainy weather and blown out rivers and streams we’re off to a good start. But to be completely honest, we have a sense of deja vu because […]
Our Advice Is To Watch the Flows Carefully
To be clear, we’re used to flows on the tailwaters lacking absolute consistency. We get reliable flows in the spring when the reservoirs are filling, then in June you need to pay more attention but you can usually divine a pattern from it that you can work with. We came to terms with this fact […]
A Ton of Possibilities
Water flows are much better going into this week than they have been over the past few weeks. Streams in the Smokies are good levels after a period of unusually high flows. We’re also seeing more favorable tailwater flows that seem to have something like consistency. We’re seeing pop up thunderstorms every day in the […]
Welcome to Summer
We had a day off but still wanted to go fishing. The kids wanted to go swimming. The best solution sounded like a great change of pace so we trailered up the boat and headed over the Foothills Parkway to Chilhowee Lake. We got in a little bit of fishing for bass with poppers and […]
The Secret Life of Cicadas
Here’s a pretty nifty video we found about cicadas we thought we’d share. Some folks have asked us about them, but we don’t get this variety around the Smokies although we have heard about them in other areas of the Southeast. This video was put together by Samuel Orr and he has a Kickstarter campaign […]