Phenomenal evening light over the Smoky Mountains as the skies clear after heavy rain last weekend It was a tough weekend to be a fly fisherman in the Smokies and we’ll just go ahead and say it was probably even tougher to be a fly fishing guide in the Smokies. Water levels were pretty high […]
A Few Days of Camping and Fly Fishing in Cataloochee Valley
Last week was spring break for our 6-year old daughter, Willow, so we took her and our 2-year old son Boone for a camping trip before our guide season really kicks into overdrive. The kids enjoy being outside and always get a kick out of seeing animals, so Cataloochee Valley with its elk herd was […]
Heading to Cataloochee
It’s relatively rare we get the time to go on even a short, regional trip when spring fishing is at its best. Thanks to this year’s early spring it looks like that will happen. The guiding has started up, but has yet to reach the fever pitch it will in a couple more weeks, so […]
Keeping An Eye on the Water
Water levels in the Smokies have receded to quite fishable levels after they spike up pretty high late last week, but we have some more rain on the way today. So far it looks like the system is breaking up and should only bring us light and scattered rain showers. As fly fishing guides […]
Quick Pics: Dry Fly Brown Trout
Spring is here and the guide season has arrived with it. I did my first full day trip of 2012 and it was a good one. Fish were rising quite well and the few spots where we couldn’t rise a fish we often drew a strike on a nymph. We even managed to get a […]
The Smokies Are Fishing Great, The Tailwaters Not So Much
The fly fishing in the Smokies continues to be great! And the fishing on our local tailwaters… Did we mention that the fishing in the Smokies is great?!? We had some high water over the weekend, but that has subsided and there are clear flows in all of the mountain streams. All of the charts […]
Quick Pics: Trout Under Water
We’ve gotten some new equipment that allows us to get some really nice underwater images. Here’s a brown trout and rainbow trout, both from Little River in the Smokies. The fish are rising quite well, even if the number of bugs seems to be diminishing. The Quill Gordon hatch usually gets started in a week […]
The Arrival of Spring
Last time we checked it was still February, but it looks as if the spring weather is here to stay. Yesterday I was fishing Little River and the daffodils were in full bloom in front of the old Townsend cabin near the Little River trailhead. It’s not just flowers either. We’ve had several thunderstorms this […]
Quick Pic: Quill Gordon – It’s What’s for Dinner
A Quill Gordon and the parachute pattern we use most often to imitate it. The hatches continue along with the unseasonably warm weather this February.
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 […]
