Autumn is in the process of kicking into high gear this week in East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains. We’ve had a pretty strong focus on dry fly fishing, particularly in the the Smokies, but that’s probably coming to an end as forecast highs later this week may not even reach 50 degrees. We haven’t […]
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 […]
Smoky Mountain Streams in Great Shape as the Weather Grows Milder
It’s been a brutal summer but the weather has certainly grown milder over the last week. Overnight temperatures here in Townsend have been in the 60’s which means that they’re easily in the 50’s in many parts of the Smokies. That means streams are cooling to premium temperatures for trout and aquatic insects are growing […]
A Look Back at Our Spring and Summer on the Water
We’ve spent so many days out guiding fly fishers in the Smokies and on local tailwater rivers that we can tell you where we are today, but barely remember where we fished yesterday. What can we say, it’s been a busy season. We’ve been reliving some memories of the past few months by looking at […]
Video Update on Lynn Camp Prong Brook Trout Restoration
Lynn Camp Prong in the Tremont section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is in the middle of a native brook trout restoration. In 2008 rainbow trout were removed from the stream. A few surviving rainbow trout were removed in the summer of 2009 before native brook trout were transplanted into the stream from other […]
Rain in the Smoky Mountains and East Tennessee makes for more good fly fishin
We’re still here, we’re just not in front of the computer too much this time of year. We’ve been doing alot of guiding that has taken all over the Smoky Mountains – into the backcountry for brookies, as well as the Holston and Clinch rivers for trout and the Holston and Pigeon rivers for smallmouth […]
A Quick Break from a Long Streak of Guiding
Sorry it’s been so long between reports, but we’ve been guiding our neoprene socks off! It’s only June, but we’ve already put in a full season of guiding by Rocky Mountain standards; and summer has just arrived. We’ve got some good stuff in store. We’re putting a new newsletter together with plenty of pictures and […]
Video Fishing Report from Upper Little River
After almost two months of guiding nearly every day, it was just nice to take a hike along the river. It’s not that Charity and I don’t want to fish or get tired of it. Sometimes it’s just nice to take in the sights, sounds, and smell of the river and the forest and not […]
Hiking & Fly Fishing for Brook Trout: A Change of Pace
After a solid week of float trips on the Holston and a weekend at TroutFest I scored a couple of days off. Besides sleeping a little later than I would if I was hitching up the drift boat, I spent some time with Charity and the kids. Yesterday Charity and I packed up the kids […]
Rivers & Streams Still Fishing After Weekend Storms
Whew! We’ve had an incredibly busy week capped off by the Townsend TroutFest this weekend. Thanks for everyone who came out. It was a phenomenal show and we got to see a lot of old friends and made some new ones. Fortunately the festival seemed to miss out on the biggest part of heavy rains […]
