Quill Gordon: The surest sign of spring on the streams in the Smokies Spring really has arrived early, at least from a fly fisher’s view. Here in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee we’ve already experienced about a week of afternoon hatches with rising fish. This doesn’t usually happen until early March or the last […]
Quick Pic: Smoky Mountain Brown Trout on the Dry Fly
I’m confident in saying the hatches have started. We’ve seen several days of consistent hatches and once they start don’t really stop. This brown came to a #12 Haystack dry fly fished on a 13′ Ayu Tenkara rod.
Quick Pic: Dry Fly Rainbow Trout in January
It’s been an unusually warm January. In fact, it’s felt much more like March. We’ve already seen some daffodils blooming and the extra warm weather has some rainbows looking up.
Damn that was good!
While we don’t expect to get much sympathy from anybody, we don’t get to fish as much or as often as many of you think. We had a pretty ambitious holiday travel schedule to be with family and even left the country for a little more than a week. Since we’ve been back we’ve hit […]
A Break in the Heat and the Crowds
It’s the middle of August and we’ve received our first merciful break from the heat. Overnight temperatures have been in the 50’s in the Smokies and we’ve been fortunate to see daytime temps stay in the low 80’s. This has brought water temperatures down a little bit. Last week in the heat the water was […]
Superb Water Levels in Smoky Mountain Trout Streams
We’ve seen a good deal of rain lately in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. This has led to unusually good conditions for fly fishing during a heat wave in late July heading into August. Water temperatures in many streams have been in the low 60’s on down into the high […]
A Day for Dry Flies
Water temperatures have in the Smokies have really warmed up and the fishing has been fantastic. Today we even fished dry flies for most of the afternoon. The larger streams like Little River and Abrams Creek are still fishing better with nymphs, but that may change in a few more days since the weather will […]
Video Fishing Report – Fall Fishing in the Smokies
Fishing has been great through October. We’ve been floating some on the Clinch plus rounding out the smallmouth bass season on the Holston and Pigeon Rivers. But it’s the Smoky Mountains where we’ve spent the majority of our time. Fall color has been superb and the dry fly fishing has rivaled what we experience in […]