We’ve spent so many days out guiding fly fishers in the Smokies and on local tailwater rivers that we can tell you where we are today, but barely remember where we fished yesterday. What can we say, it’s been a busy season. We’ve been reliving some memories of the past few months by looking at […]
Video Update on Lynn Camp Prong Brook Trout Restoration
Lynn Camp Prong in the Tremont section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is in the middle of a native brook trout restoration. In 2008 rainbow trout were removed from the stream. A few surviving rainbow trout were removed in the summer of 2009 before native brook trout were transplanted into the stream from other […]
Rain in the Smoky Mountains and East Tennessee makes for more good fly fishin
We’re still here, we’re just not in front of the computer too much this time of year. We’ve been doing alot of guiding that has taken all over the Smoky Mountains – into the backcountry for brookies, as well as the Holston and Clinch rivers for trout and the Holston and Pigeon rivers for smallmouth […]
A Quick Break from a Long Streak of Guiding
Sorry it’s been so long between reports, but we’ve been guiding our neoprene socks off! It’s only June, but we’ve already put in a full season of guiding by Rocky Mountain standards; and summer has just arrived. We’ve got some good stuff in store. We’re putting a new newsletter together with plenty of pictures and […]
Video Fishing Report from Upper Little River
After almost two months of guiding nearly every day, it was just nice to take a hike along the river. It’s not that Charity and I don’t want to fish or get tired of it. Sometimes it’s just nice to take in the sights, sounds, and smell of the river and the forest and not […]
Hiking & Fly Fishing for Brook Trout: A Change of Pace
After a solid week of float trips on the Holston and a weekend at TroutFest I scored a couple of days off. Besides sleeping a little later than I would if I was hitching up the drift boat, I spent some time with Charity and the kids. Yesterday Charity and I packed up the kids […]
Rivers & Streams Still Fishing After Weekend Storms
Whew! We’ve had an incredibly busy week capped off by the Townsend TroutFest this weekend. Thanks for everyone who came out. It was a phenomenal show and we got to see a lot of old friends and made some new ones. Fortunately the festival seemed to miss out on the biggest part of heavy rains […]
Great Fishing and Non-Stop Guiding
We’re guiding the rivers and streams everyday now and that’s why we haven’t been posting as much in the way of fishing reports. All of the streams in the Smokies are back to normal levels. They were running a little on the high side after heavy rains about 10 days ago, but have been fishable […]
We’re Back from Another Great Weekend at Hazel Creek
We’re back from another weekend expedition to Hazel Creek. Fortunately the weather was quite cooperative and the trout were pretty agreeable too. We’ve got another full week of guided trips on the schedule this week so we don’t have a lot of time for a detailed report. We’ll try to post that in a few […]
A Great Weekend of Fly Fishing on Hazel Creek
Our entire guide line up spent the weekend on Hazel Creek with a group of anglers from Ohio. The weather was absolutely perfect on Thursday and Friday. Things got pretty wet on Saturday, but the good fishing continued. Overall, most of the fish our group caught was on nymphs, but my anglers had a good […]
