Spring weather is certainly here, but there is still a good deal of snow on the ground in shaded areas of the Smokies. Regardless, the sun was shining, the weather was warm, and the tailwaters even had favorable generation schedules. We’re still waiting for the hatches to get started in the Smokies, but the rainbow […]
Another Cold Weekend Goes By Here in the Smoky Mountains
It was another cold weekend here in the Smoky Mountains, but we got out and did some fly fishing anyway. The fishing wasn’t red hot. Far from it to be honest, but we have spring fever and honestly, I can’t help but think that the fish and the bugs do too. The fish stayed on […]
Warm Weather and Cold Water in the Smokies
R & R Fly Fishing | Promote Your Page Too After the great fishing Charity and I had yesterday, I went back in the park with my fishing buddy Doug Sanders today. We went up Little River and there was still a lot of snow on the ground. All that snow was melting today and […]
Fishing Improves with Warmer Weather
We’ve done all kinds of things since the last post. While we’ve done some fishing we also traveled up to Indianapolis to speak at a meeting of the Indianapolis Fly Casters. There was a large and enthusiastic turnout and I’m pretty sure we made a few former Tennesseans homesick for the trout fishing they left […]
Smokies in the Grip of Intense Cold Weather; We Go Fishing
It’s been a tough week or so as far as the weather is concerned here in the Smoky Mountains. Temperatures have been peaking in the low to mid 20’s and there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight. It’s so bad that we’re longing for those days right after Christmas when it warmed up […]
Belated Fishing Report From Before Snow Storm
I’ve got a fishing report from late last week, but conditions have changed substantially in the Smoky Mountains since that time so I’m not sure just how valid it will be. We’ve been struggling with a round of the cold virus here at R&R Fly Fishing on top of finishing up holiday shopping and getting […]
A Look Back at Our Favorite Pictures from 2009
We’ve covered a lot of water in 2009! Here are some of our favorite moments from the mountains and rivers captured with a camera. We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed being there! View from the fly tying desk on a cold day last January, Townsend, TN Little River rainbow trout, Great […]
Nice Brown Trout on Little River
I’m going to take this opportunity to brag on Andy Harman of Johnson City, Tennessee. He emailed me a little while back asking for a good place to fly fish close to Knoxville over the Thanksgiving holiday. The Clinch was blown out and he was looking for an alternative. I recommended Little River because of […]
Rounding Out the Smoky Mountain Fly Fishing Season
It looks like all the best fishing of 2009 is behind us now. Our guide season always seems to end right after Thanksgiving weekend. That’s about right since fishing in the Smokies slows down about that time and most of us have other obligations to take care of as the calendar moves towards Christmas. We […]
Another Good Smoky Mountain Brown Trout
It looks like John Coley has some competition. John caught the best brown trout we’ve guided a fly fisher to in the Smokies last week. Today Charity was the guide and Julie Wattenbarger caught a superb fish on a Prince Nymph on the Oconaluftee River well upstream of Smokemont Campground. This fish was also about […]
