Some dry fly goodness from the Smoky Mountains
Quick Pic: Quill Gordon
The weather is great, water levels in the Smokies are very good, and the fish are rising. We’ll see you on the water.
Water Levels Getting More Manageable in the Smokies
We’ve gotten pretty used to fishing high water in the Smokies recently. The water has been fishable, you just had to pick and choose your spots. That’s likely to be the case for a few more days, but things are getting to the point where flows are more manageable than they’ve been in a couple […]
Quick Pic: First Trout on Fly
Wells Sharp from Alabama shows off his first trout on a fly rod. A great way to start with a very nice wild brown trout caught on a dry fly in the Smokies.
Rivers are Rolling But Hatches Continue in the Smokies
The season is officially under way for us here at R&R Fly Fishing. We have anglers on the water every day this week. We’ve had some guide trips up to this point, but those had a pre-season kind of feel to them even though our anglers caught plenty of fish. We always did better than […]
Video Fly Fishing Report – Early March 2011
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JxXhuq6NCE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] We got off to an early start with nice weather arriving in late February. It looks like we’re making up for it now since we’ve had quite a bit of rain over the last week or so. This has caused plenty of high water. The Quill Gordons started to hatch but the high water […]
Heavy Rain & High Water Across the Southern Appalachians
Rivers and streams were already pretty high before more heavy rain arrived yesterday. There wasn’t much to do besides get some work done inside, then take a drive up the river just to see the high water. We’ll typically see the water this high once or twice a year, but it doesn’t get much higher […]
Some High Water & Winter Takes Another Shot
We had a great weekend with the Nat Greene Fly Fishers over in Greensboro, NC and want to thank everyone who came. It was a great success and we apparently set an attendance record for a seminar. Fortunately the weather held out for us to do our casting workshops and everyone had a great time […]
Spring’s Steady Progression
Red sky in morning, outdoorsy people heed the warning March is well on its way with everything we’ve come to expect from this first month of spring: insect hatches on the rivers and streams, gobbling turkeys, and heavy rain. We managed to get back on the water in the Smokies for the afternoon and the […]
We Have Bugs
Today is the day we’ve been waiting for. Well… almost the day we’ve been waiting for. Charity and I returned from a short trip up the Little River this afternoon and we’re happy to report that there are Quill Gordons hatching. Quill Gordon photographed last year by Julie Tallman on a North Carolina stream The […]
