In most years TVA will start to drain reservoirs in August and we’ll see medium to high flows into December, sometimes early January. Then flows are typically a mixed bag, sometimes good and sometimes tough until spring when TVA cuts flows to fill the reservoirs. This year has been a tough one due to weather […]
High Water in the Smokies But Things Starting to Improve on the Tailwaters
Phenomenal evening light over the Smoky Mountains as the skies clear after heavy rain last weekend It was a tough weekend to be a fly fisherman in the Smokies and we’ll just go ahead and say it was probably even tougher to be a fly fishing guide in the Smokies. Water levels were pretty high […]
A Few Days of Camping and Fly Fishing in Cataloochee Valley
Last week was spring break for our 6-year old daughter, Willow, so we took her and our 2-year old son Boone for a camping trip before our guide season really kicks into overdrive. The kids enjoy being outside and always get a kick out of seeing animals, so Cataloochee Valley with its elk herd was […]
Weekly Digest for 2012-03-18
From our fishing report: We're keeping a close eye on both the weather and river flows http://t.co/QhSreXrJ #Smokies #flyfishing # US Forest Service seeking public comments regarding road improvements in Chattahoochee National Forest by April 13 http://t.co/YyyHwzOl # This close up image of an adipose fin shows how mud red coloration our Smoky Mountain brown […]
Heading to Cataloochee
It’s relatively rare we get the time to go on even a short, regional trip when spring fishing is at its best. Thanks to this year’s early spring it looks like that will happen. The guiding has started up, but has yet to reach the fever pitch it will in a couple more weeks, so […]
Keeping An Eye on the Water
Water levels in the Smokies have receded to quite fishable levels after they spike up pretty high late last week, but we have some more rain on the way today. So far it looks like the system is breaking up and should only bring us light and scattered rain showers. As fly fishing guides […]
Weekly Digest for 2012-03-11
Big Sky Brewing Company: Beer for Fly Fishing http://t.co/VUIcgkxx # A graphic that describes trout bums everywhere http://t.co/lUoWyd4I # Tellico River clean up Saturday March 10 in Cherokee National Forest. Free T-shirt for the first 100 to arrive http://t.co/Gk2LJXro # From Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine: Fly fishing in the Southern mountains with Tenkara http://t.co/RmPnAsls # […]
Quick Pics: Dry Fly Brown Trout
Spring is here and the guide season has arrived with it. I did my first full day trip of 2012 and it was a good one. Fish were rising quite well and the few spots where we couldn’t rise a fish we often drew a strike on a nymph. We even managed to get a […]
The Smokies Are Fishing Great, The Tailwaters Not So Much
The fly fishing in the Smokies continues to be great! And the fishing on our local tailwaters… Did we mention that the fishing in the Smokies is great?!? We had some high water over the weekend, but that has subsided and there are clear flows in all of the mountain streams. All of the charts […]
Weekly Digest for 2012-03-04
From our fishing report: Charity’s excellent adventure in Patagonia continues & she's sent pictures to make us jealous http://t.co/9qxyY0d6 # Receive text or email alerts about water levels for free from USGS WaterAlert http://t.co/d0xm4a9f # A list of injuries from a year in the Smokies Nat'l Park and how they happened. Care to guess how […]