A few days ago the week seemed to be ripe with possibility. The snow was melting fast and a warm rain was on the way. Even better there were a number of sunny days in the forecast with temperatures in the 40’s and 50’s. Looks good on paper but it didn’t really work out that […]
Fly Fishing Prospects Improve as the New Year Arrives
There hasn’t been any fly fishing to report from our neck of the woods in East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains. Between the Christmas holiday and Snowmageddon it was pretty hard to get out. Not that it mattered much, though. There hasn’t been much of a generation schedule worth heading to our local tailwaters and […]
Winter Fishing in the Smokies and on the Nantahala River
We’ve spent the past few days tending to last minute Christmas details, but also found plenty of time to get out on the water. The weather has been less than ideal, but we find more time to fish for ourselves now than we do in the spring, summer or fall so we have to take […]
Surprisingly Good Fishing in Cold Water
Today I took Sean Smith out for a half day trip in the Smokies. When he called to check about a trip I warned him it would probably be a tough, TOUGH day since the combination of cold weather, melting snow, and rain meant we would have relatively high flows with very cold temperatures. He […]
Video Fly Fishing Report from the Smokies, Mid December 2010
It’s been a frigid couple of weeks here in East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains. We’ve had a good deal of snow and temperatures haven’t risen above freezing the majority of the time. In this video report we show you some snowy scenery in the Smokies and visit Tremont and Cades Cove sections of the […]
Not Much Fishing to Be Done Today in East Tennessee
This morning we’re having a big, hot breakfast and not in any rush to get out of the house. We have at least 4″ of snow on the ground here in Townsend and every school system in East Tennessee is closed today. All of the roads in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are closed and […]
Video Fishing Report – Cold Weather Fly Fishing in the Smoky Mountains
December has come along in a big way. We’ve had high water here in the Smokies and now the cold weather has really set in. This week we got some fishing in while the weather was still a little mild and the water a little high. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVXJOZzThs4[/youtube] Water temperatures have been pretty cold so fishing […]
Water levels fall in the Smokies but increase on the Clinch
Charity and I got out on the water for a few hours in the Smokies yesterday. Stream levels were generally high, but the fishing wasn’t bad. We fished nymphs deep in calm pockets and got a surprisingly good number of strikes. Charity fished a Zelon Nymph and Pats Nymph with a split shot under a […]
Video Fishing Report – High Water in the Smoky Mountains
We had some big weather move through yesterday with high winds and heavy rain. Winds on the mountain tops were generally in the 50 mph range with a few gusts recorded around 90 mph. It all finished with cold weather and a dusting of snow. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRy9uDManSk[/youtube]
Video Fishing Report – Late November in the Smokies and the Clinch River
It’s been beautiful if not a bit cooler for the last couple of weeks here in the Smoky Mountains and East Tennessee. We’ve got another good video fishing report from the stream to share. It’s pretty tough to guide from the drift boat and get much in the way of good video, particularly on a […]
