Take a good look… It will be a while before you see this again There’s still some snow in the shaded hollows and high peaks of the Smoky Mountains, but it’s on the way out. Temperatures made it well into the 50’s over thew weekend and should make it into the 60’s later this week. […]
A Family Day on the Drift Boat
The cold weather has let up a little bit and we’ve seen a few days of sunshine and temperatures in the 40’s. After what we’ve seen for the past month this looks like spring break so we’ve made a point to get out of the house whenever possible. The drift boat hasn’t been in the […]
Our Spring Fly Fishing Forecast for East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains
Even though we had a good chunk of winter left we’re taking phone calls and answering emails everyday from folks wondering when the best fly fishing will arrive. Here in East Tennessee good conditions arrive much earlier than they do in other parts of the country. We have a nice variety of mountain streams and […]
Fly Fishing Prospects Improve as the New Year Arrives
There hasn’t been any fly fishing to report from our neck of the woods in East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains. Between the Christmas holiday and Snowmageddon it was pretty hard to get out. Not that it mattered much, though. There hasn’t been much of a generation schedule worth heading to our local tailwaters and […]
Water levels fall in the Smokies but increase on the Clinch
Charity and I got out on the water for a few hours in the Smokies yesterday. Stream levels were generally high, but the fishing wasn’t bad. We fished nymphs deep in calm pockets and got a surprisingly good number of strikes. Charity fished a Zelon Nymph and Pats Nymph with a split shot under a […]
Cold Weather Arrives Right on Time
Here in East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains we can usually count on two things Thanksgiving week. It’s typically our last busy week of the guide season and cold weather usually sets in sometime that week. This year the best weather was on the front side of the holiday with near record warmth. Not much […]
Video Fishing Report – Smoky Mountains & Clinch River
We’ve been out on the water quite a bit over the past couple of weeks and had some great opportunities to get some excellent video of fishing and spawning brown trout in the Smoky Mountains. We also elaborate more on our last post regarding the Clinch River. You’ll see some excellent video from the Clinch. […]
Clinch River Continues to Fish Well (From a Boat)
The Clinch River below Norris Dam has had the dream generation schedule lately, but only if you have a boat. Norris Dam has been running one generator about 20 hours a day. Steady flows make for happy bugs and happy fish. Furthermore that water level allows for excellent fishing. Of course it sucks if you’re […]
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 […]
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 […]