This month we tackle one of our favorite topics, fly fishing for brook trout in the Great Smoky Mountains. If you’ve never experienced this type of fishing this video will show you everything we love about it: phenomenal scenery, beautiful trout, rarely seen animals, and dry fly fishing. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/28795881[/vimeo]
A Couple of Days Off the Grid
I took Pat Segraves out for two consecutive days of hike-in fly fishing in the Smokies. Whether Pat planned it this way or not, this is the way to go in late August. He wanted to experience a day on a brook trout stream and another day on a smallmouth bass stream. As is almost […]
A Guides’ Day Off High in the Smokies
We got a short break from the heat, but depending on where you are it’s been pretty hot for the past few days. Night time temperatures in the Smokies have been dipping down into the 50’s or even the 40’s depending on the elevation, so water temperatures have remained good, particularly up high. Charity and […]
Lynn Camp Prong Brook Trout Restoration Update
As you may know, the National Park Service is conducting a major native brook trout restoration in the Tremont area of the Smokies. This is one of our local streams and one we consider our home water. We have volunteered our help with park biologists in the past will continue to support their efforts. This […]
Quick Pic: Backcountry Speck
A colorful brook trout from the Smoky Mountain backcountry
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 […]
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 […]
Clinch River was a Tough Nut
Flows on the Clinch River finally dropped to a fishable level and while conditions weren’t what I’d term perfect, they were the best we’d seen in a while. Besides, the drift boat hasn’t seen much action this spring so I was eager to get back behind the oars after last week’s float on the Tuckaseegee. […]
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. […]