We’re in the full rush of our guide season and on the river almost every day. I managed to sit one out after 13 consecutive days behind the oars or wading the creek. It was a good to get a day in to recover a bit, but the fishing has been so good we’ve been […]
Peak of the Season on the Tailwaters & In the Smokies
It’s early May and we’re on the water almost every day guiding fly fishers on the big tailwater rivers and on the creeks up in the Smokies. It’s prime time as far as we’re concerned and we’re happy to say the fish are cooperating on most days. There have been a couple relatively tough days […]
Weekly Digest for 2012-05-06
Lots of Tennessee tailwater rainbow on just a little bit of hook http://t.co/FDqX6FlK # From our fishing report: Dry fly fishing is sporadic on our tailwaters right now but nymphing has been pretty good. http://t.co/KlfGliNe # Powered by Twitter Tools
Quick Pic: Big Tailwater Rainbow
It’s that time of year. Every day we’re on the water whether it’s up in the Smokies or rowing the drift boat on one of the local tailwaters. Dry fly fishing has been spotty on the tailwaters, but nymph fishing has been very consistent. Caddis hatches are spotty on the Holston and Sulphurs are primarily […]
Weekly Digest for 2012-04-29
One of these flies is not like the other one… http://t.co/PjE2B0Fp # On our fishing report: A slide show of our weekend fly fishing camp on Hazel Creek in the Smokies http://t.co/4I4Op89P # How are the tailwaters fishing in East Tennessee? Pretty good… Pretty good… http://t.co/dtM3DYBe # From our fishing report: How are the tailwaters […]
Quick Pic: Scenery From the Drift Boat
Yes, the fishing this week from the drift boat has been phenomenal. It’s been one of those weeks when the fishing has been so good I know I’ll pay for it later when I’m having to massage a full day of fishing out of marginal generation schedules or labor through incredibly hot days when even […]
How Are the Tailwaters Fishing? Pretty Good…
It’s been a well known fact that fishing in the Smokies has been pretty good. Heck, it’s April, so it’s more or less a given that the streams in the Smokies should be fishing well. But the tailwaters? How are they fishing? Two fish in the net at once? That might be enough for most […]
Hazel Creek Spring 2012 Wrap Up
Last weekend was our annual Hazel Creek spring fish camp and it was another great one! We had folks from as far away as Chicago, IL and Louisville, KY while others were from right here in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. We didn’t see any monster brown trout as we have on a few […]
Weekly Digest for 2012-04-22
The R & R Fly Fishing April Newsletter is out with info about the Smoky Mountains and East Tennessee tailwaters http://t.co/mNAJrCPw # Smokies fishing trail info: Chimney Tops trail closed Mondays – Thursdays April 30 – October 18 for trail maintenance http://t.co/tLZU3djY # A 2 minute vacation on a brook trout stream somewhere in North […]
Tailwater Conditions Continue to Improve in East Tennessee
Eric Wetherington shows off a 16″ rainbow trout he caught on a float trip with a #16 Zelon Nymph. Things actually started off pretty slow and while we had a few rising fish, it wasn’t as many as I’d seen only a couple of days earlier. The afternoon session got pretty hot and heavy with […]
