As I sit down to write this Townsend, TN is under a winter storm warning through tomorrow morning. Right now it’s raining but we awoke this morning to the gentle tap of sleet outside. The Smokies are forecast to receive several inches of snow as temperatures fall late this afternoon through the night. All I […]
We Take a Look Back at 2013
We’ll always remember 2013, but probably won’t look back at it so fondly as we do other years. We’ll always remember the severe drought of 2007 and the way it stretched a bit into 2008, but those years weren’t so tough as 2013. Without a doubt 2013 was the toughest we’ve seen in our eleven […]
Settling In To The Off Season
It’s December and our guide season is over for all practical reasons. We’ll certainly take a few folks out on a few days over the next few months, but this is far from what we call our season when we’re on the water almost everyday. We’ve answered a few emails over the holiday concerning the […]
Fish While You Can
We’ve entered that shoulder fishing season now that really isn’t one of those main events of the year, but perhaps the most important. No, it’s not the ever popular spring dry fly fishing or colorful falling fishing but the “get it while you can” fishing. We’re quickly moving into late November and the weather is […]
November Fly Fishing Is Here
There are still some pockets of fall color in East Tennessee but the Smokies are quickly transitioning out of that phase. The tops of the mountains are bare and look like winter. Further down the slopes the vibrant yellow, red, and orange is beginning to fade to brown with a few exceptions. We’re seeing brown […]
The Peak of Fall Fishing is Here!
It’s the last week of October, the weather is cool, the leaves are falling, and the fishing has been great. We’ve already seen some large brown trout moving and that will only improve over the next two weeks as they move into position to spawn. Weather this week will be warmer than we saw last […]
Back on the Water in the Smokies
Yesterday Great Smoky Mountains National Park opened again after more than two weeks of being closed. All national parks are open today but Tennessee’s governor Bill Haslam brokered a deal that allowed the states of Tennessee and North Carolina along with Blount and Sevier Counties in Tennessee to pay for the park to open. Needless […]
Fall Fishing Under Difficult Circumstances
Fall fishing is certainly here. From our window we can see shades of red, orange, and gold along the crest of the Smokies. Mornings require a fleece jacket to be comfortable while afternoons are sunny and comfortable with your sleeves rolled up. Trout are rising well to dry flies in the Smokies, but right now […]
Where to Fly Fish: Government Shutdown Edition
As anyone who pays any attention will know the US Government has been closed along with all the departments it encompasses. At first thought some people might not expect fly fishing to be impacted by Washington politics, but it surely is. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is closed along with every other park in the […]
East Tennessee Fishing Report (From a Remote Location)
Even as we’re in Yellowstone Country fishing some of the most fabled rivers in the Northern Rockies you might be interested to know that we still keep tabs on conditions at home. While we can’t give you any first hand information about the fishing we can certainly tell you what we know based on the […]