Weather has been pretty mild here in the Smoky Mountains and fly fishing conditions have remained very good. The biggest obstacle to fishing has been a rock slide on Little River Road. The road has been closed between Metcalf Bottoms and Elkmont Junction, the most popular section of the river for fly fishers. News reports […]
Three Days of Fly Fishing the Smokies in Cataloochee Valley
Charity and I noticed some blank days on the guide calendar and decided we needed to take advantage of the break. Even those of us who live in the Smoky Mountains like to take a few days to get away and do nothing more than camp and fly fish. After a quick scan of a […]
Biologists Count Trout at Tremont
Yesterday I helped electroshock trout on the Middle Prong of Little River at Tremont. We worked 200 meters of the stream on the section followed by the gravel road. We were about a quarter mile from the end of the road. There were a lot of biologists and volunteers involved. I helped net fish as […]
Fly Fishing in the Smokies Remains Good as the Heat Bears Down
It’s certainly August. We’re finally starting to see 90 degree temperatures here in Townsend, TN but the water levels in the Smokies are still good and water temperatures are excellent. Pop up thunderstorms are forecast every day this week. That doesn’t necessarily mean it will rain everywhere on every day, but there’s a good chance […]
Good Fly Fishing in the Smokies and the Clinch plus More Bear Pictures
Water levels are well within fishable, but look much more like April than August. Here on the Tennessee side of the Smokies Tremont is fishing really well. I’ve been fishing nymphs about three feet under a yarn indicator, but dry flies will tempt plenty of fish. Just be sure to cast dries to spots that […]
Unusually High Water for August in East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains
Water levels are better this August than they were in the spring of 2007 and 2008. Abundant rainfall has created some high water in the creeks in the Smokies, but they are subsiding quickly. Large streams like Little River and Abrams Creek are difficult to wade, but are certainly fishable in many spots. Brook trout […]
Rainfall Sets Up Ideal August Water Levels in the Smoky Mountains
Recent flooding rains have subsided in the Smoky Mountains and left us with stream levels that we typically see in March and April. Yesterday I took two anglers for a day of fishing on the Oconaluftee River in the park because Little River was still a bit too high for safe fishing. It fished superbly. […]
Wait and See How Much Rain Falls to Determine if Smokies Streams Will Be Fishable
Right now streams are high but fishable in the Smokies, but we’ve got some more rain on the way tonight. There’s a good chance that the creeks will be high but fishable on the weekend, but we’ll have to see how much rain we get first. If you go be sure to have some big […]
Streams Blown Out in the Smoky Mountains
We’ve had some heavy rains since midnight and most of the streams are blown out in the Smokies. More rain is forecast for tomorrow so we’re expecting tough conditons into Friday. Streams clear up pretty clear in the Smokies and water levels fall relatively quickly so we’re expecting improvements by Saturday, Friday if rain on […]
A Variety of Fly Fishing in the Smoky Mountains and East Tennessee
It’s been too long since I’ve posted a report and the reason is because we’ve been fishing so much. Fishing in the Smokies, fishing on the tailwaters, fishing for smallmouth. You name it, we’ve done it over the past two weeks. Smoky Mountains Water levels have come down to where you’d expect them to be […]
