Warm Weather and Cold Water in the Smokies

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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 the water was absolutely bone chilling.

We really didn’t do very well at all. Doug caught one nice rainbow trout on a George Nymph and I caught one brown trout on a Parachute Adams. That’s the first one of the year I’ve caught on my favorite fly. Have a look.

February 20th, 2010 | Ian | 1 Comment | Tags: Brown Trout, Little River, Parachute Adams

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Ian Rutter

Ian is equally comfortable guiding on the streams of the Smoky Mountains and the large tailwaters of East Tennesse and Western North Carolina. He wrote Great Smoky Mountains National Park Angler’s Companion, Tennessee Trout Waters: Blue Ribbon Guide, and Rise Rings and Rhododendron: Fly Fishing the Mountain Streams and Tailwaters of Southern Appalachia.

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Great Weather but Slow Fishing on Our First Float of the Year on the Holston | R and R Fly Fishing 02.20.2010

[...] Snow melt in the Smokies kept the streams as cold as ever and the fish were generally locked down. I did pick up a decent brown trout on a dry fly this Saturday and got cell phone video of the fish to prove it. [...]