Now that the water has been high much of the time and the weather has turned cold we’ve gone back and taken a look back at the year we’ve had. It seems like the life of fly fishing guides is all fun and games, but it’s really quite hectic. It’s only now when we’re not […]
Weekly Digest for 2011-12-11
A trip up Fires Creek from Sizemore Outdoors Photography http://t.co/YEMBtb72 # Massive logjam on French Broad River is rechanneling the river through a farm in Western North Carolina http://t.co/x1l7bDlh # Wild & public trout fisheries vs. pellet fed "trophy" streams you have to pay to fish. Chi Wulff stir it up http://t.co/Fmq6P1Zv #flyfishing # Supreme […]
How can you tell when the water is high?
This is one way… We’re in the middle of another high water session all across the Smoky Mountain region with creeks boiling with whitewater and our tailwaters running full. The Norris Dam is about start spilling so we won’t be fishing the Clinch any time soon. Even the Watauga and South Holston, usual good bets […]
Weekly Digest for 2011-12-04
From our fishing report: It's the end of our busy season but we've got some cool stuff on the way http://t.co/efswiR6g # A short video of a black bear cub we saw on the stream this weekend http://t.co/27kG3U31 #Smokies # Are they the Griswolds? Family gets lost during their Christmas tree hunt and calls 911 […]
Quick Pic: High Water in the Smokies
Yup, the water’s high in the Smokies… This is what it looked like Tuesday, November 29 on the Middle Prong of Little River near the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont.
The End of Our Busy Season
We managed to capture this on video over the weekend and thought there would be plenty of you who would like to see it. This is a bear cub at Tremont. His mother had already crossed the stream and he was somewhat less than enthusiastic about making the plunge, and we can understand. The water […]
Weekly Digest for 2011-11-27
We're about to introduce some pretty cool stuff! #flyfishing http://t.co/4lUDfjbH # Live in Knoxville and tired of driving a long way to a fly shop? 3 Rivers Angler opens in Bearden http://t.co/7TbbAsMm # Fascinating historic photos of the Southern Appalachian region from UNC Asheville library & US Forest Service http://t.co/Q5IQtguF # Strategies for streamer fishing […]
An Exciting Announcement
We’ve been working on this stuff for a long time and we’ve finally been able to see it all come together! R&R Fly Fishing will soon be offering its own line of leaders, tippet material, and strike indicators. It’s not in our store yet, but expect it to arrive shortly.
Weekly Digest for 2011-11-20
From our fishing report: A warm, wet week of fishing ahead in the Smoky Mountains http://t.co/YmE20NFm #flyfishing # RT @chotachief: We know it's a little early, but mark your calanders now for Troutfest 2012. May 18-20 in beautiful Townsend TN # Didymo fear spurs USF&W to donate hatchery Atlantic salmon to Native Americans instead of […]
Quick Pic: Rainbow Trout on a Tellico Nymph
Water was up and rolling so we started out with streamers to stir up some big brown trout. It didn’t take long to figure out the browns had no interest in streamers but we could still pick up some fish on nymphs.
