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 more [...]

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 some [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 from [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 in [...]

We’re guiding the rivers and streams everyday now and that’s why we haven’t been posting as much in the way of fishing reports.
All of the streams in the Smokies are back to normal levels. They were running a little on the high side after heavy rains about 10 days ago, but have been fishable for [...]

We’re back from another weekend expedition to Hazel Creek. Fortunately the weather was quite cooperative and the trout were pretty agreeable too.
We’ve got another full week of guided trips on the schedule this week so we don’t have a lot of time for a detailed report. We’ll try to post that in a few more [...]