As you may or may not know, Charity is on a trip of a lifetime in Patagonia, Argentina. Since we’re full time fly fishing guides, you could say that this is work, to some degree. After more than 24 hours of travel from East Tennessee to southern Argentina you can imagine what it’s like to […]
Snowy Monday Morning in the Smokies
We heard from Charity last night after she arrived safely waaaayyyy down South in Patagonia. She’ll be hitting the rivers there today. Check back over the next few days as she’ll be posting some photos and telling us how it is. I feel pretty bad for her since I get to stay home with our […]
Weekly Digest for 2012-02-19
Completion of bridge project in Townsend ends traffic tie-ups at the national park entrance. Hooray!! http://t.co/ynxEe3fJ # Tenkara is NOT cane pole fishing! Unless it's in Japan with a 60 year old cane Tenkara rod. (Good looking rod!) http://t.co/hwEJntcK # The NY Times explores the growing phenomenon of fly fishing for carp http://t.co/eItJRKJw # Biologists […]
Quick Pic: Quill Gordon Mayfly
Quick Pic: Mild Weather Returns Along With the Dry Fly Fishing
The brief but significant snowfall in the Smokies last weekend has certainly cooled the water but the Blue Quill and Quill Gordon hatches are continuing with some of the best dry fly fishing we’ll see all year in the Smokies. Warm rains on the way will wash any snow away and bring water temperatures back […]
Winter’s Brief but Convincing Return
Warm, sunny days, hatching mayflies, and rising trout gave us the distinct idea that spring was here early. Of course we knew that probably wasn’t the case, but after about of week of that, the idea starts to take hold. Then something happens to jar you back to reality. One of our favorite brook trout […]
A Four Minute Trip to Yellowstone
We always head to Yellowstone in September, sometimes for as long as three weeks at a time. That’s still a ways off, but we found this beauty of a video over a Chi-Wulff and had to share it. This has some beautiful time lapse as well as nice scenes of wildlife in Hayden Valley, Lamar […]
Weekly Digest for 2012-02-12
Hey! That's us profiled on the Chi Wulff blog http://t.co/SwHSAaWZ #flyfishing # Southeast Regional Fly Fishing Qualifier coming to Brevard, NC http://t.co/t8fNosgh # From our fishing report: Looks like spring is arriving early this year. We're already seeing hatches in the Smokies http://t.co/EG5O1aaT # RT @chiwulff: First part of a nifty interview with Charity and […]
Hatches Continue in the Smokies; Meanwhile Winter Returns
Quill Gordon: The surest sign of spring on the streams in the Smokies Spring really has arrived early, at least from a fly fisher’s view. Here in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee we’ve already experienced about a week of afternoon hatches with rising fish. This doesn’t usually happen until early March or the last […]
Quick Pic: Smoky Mountain Brown Trout on the Dry Fly
I’m confident in saying the hatches have started. We’ve seen several days of consistent hatches and once they start don’t really stop. This brown came to a #12 Haystack dry fly fished on a 13′ Ayu Tenkara rod.
