Here’s some good video of the tornado damage in Great Smoky Mountains National Park from April 27. This was in the northwest section of the park along Chilhowee Lake and lower Abrams Creek. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlnGMxBGk6I[/youtube]
What Day Is It?
We’re pretty dizzy from day after day of guiding and the evening conversation usually comes around to “Where am I going tomorrow?” We have to check the calendar remember who to meet and where we’re scheduled to go fishing. Over the past few weeks we’ve been all over the place, from deep in the backcountry […]
Quick Pic: Hazel Creek slab
Jack Gotcher got the lifetime achievement award on our Hazel Creek campout a couple of weeks ago for this slab of a brown trout. Charity and I have both been on the water. I’ve been primarily behind the oars of the drift boat and she’s been working the Smokies plus we had TroutFest in Townsend […]
Quick Pic: Salmon Fly
The Smokies aren’t known for having large stoneflies like these, but they’re around. Photographed this one earlier this week in the Smoky Mountain backcountry.
Guiding Fly Fishers All Over East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains
We’ve been exceptionally busy over the last week and done just about every type of trip we offer. Charity has been guiding anglers in the Smokies while I’ve done some of that as well as floats for trout and floats for smallmouth bass. Almost all of the trips I’ve done in the Smokies have been […]
Quick Pics: Hazel Creek
We’ve got more pictures on the way, but here’s a quick sampling from our fish camp on Hazel Creek last weekend Hazel Creek rainbow trout We caught a glimpse of this black bear before it disappeared into the forest A nice brown trout with a Beadhead Tellico Nymph Our home during our time on Hazel […]
The Season is Upon Us!
We’ve already done a ton of guiding this spring, but this is the week when we shift gears into overdrive. We have guided trips in the Smokies, tailwater floats, and our annual Hazel Creek fish camp this weekend. That’s followed by more of the same next week followed by the Townsend TroutFest next weekend. If […]
Brown Trout Day on the Tuckaseegee River
Our local tailwaters, the Clinch and Holston Rivers, are running far too much water right now but the wet spring we’ve had makes for good floating on the Tuckaseegee in western North Carolina. It’s a little further than we typically drive for a spring float but the commute is spectacular! The view on our drive […]
Tuckaseegee Float and We Finally See Some Bears
I was scheduled to do a float on Tuesday and the high water situation on our local TVA tailwaters just wasn’t negotiable. Fortunately we can be on the Tuckaseegee River in western North Carolina with a slightly longer drive and the drive across the Smokies is among the most scenic in the nation. We’ve been […]
High Water and Our First Trip Up High for Brookies
Right now water is high in the Smokies but fishable. You’ll need to move about from one spot to the next without being able to fish every last yard of stream. We’ve had quite a bit of water this spring and water levels aren’t falling very fast. This isnt’ necessarily a bad thing; fish like […]
