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  • rainbow trotu with pat nymph

    Damn that was good!

    January 17th, 2012 | Fishing Report, smokies, Tailwaters | Ian | 1 Comment

    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 [...]

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  • Weekly Digest for 2012-01-15

    Weekly Digest for 2012-01-15

    January 15th, 2012 | Fast Action | Ian | No Comments

    In depth interview from the Onion: Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now http://t.co/uhHWTCQd # The first annual Musky Fly Fishing World Championships come to Rock Island, Tennessee http://t.co/sQcNNiOw #flyfishing # Lost hikers found with the help of 2 blackhawk helicopters, 1 F-22 figher jet, and 2 Air Force drones http://t.co/LFPqXPS9 #NotTheTaliban [...]

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  • Winter rainbow trout from the Smoky Mountains

    A Wild Week of Weather

    January 13th, 2012 | Fishing Report, smokies, Tailwaters | Ian | No Comments

    To say we’ve had a wild week as far as weather is concerned is an understatement. We’ve had just about everything except scorching heat here in East Tennessee and the Smokies. Last weekend was exceptionally mild for January, but there was an interesting phenomenon in the Smokies. Since there wasn’t much wind and the sun [...]

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  • Weekly Digest for 2012-01-08

    Weekly Digest for 2012-01-08

    January 8th, 2012 | Fast Action | Ian | No Comments

    Coalition working to restore native brook trout to upstate South Carolina streams in the Jocassee Gorges http://t.co/lPgLgOTJ #flyfishing # From our fishing report: The Latest from the Smokies plus Our Predictions for 2012 http://t.co/17o5Ks3M #flyfishing # The Fly Fishing Film Tour comes to Knoxville TN March 22, Nashville March 27, Atlanta March 29, & Asheville [...]

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  • Winter nymphing in the Smoky Mountains

    The Latest from the Smokies plus Our Predictions for 2012

    January 3rd, 2012 | Fishing Report, smokies, Tailwaters | Ian | 3 Comments

    It’s been a long holiday season for us that began over a week before Christmas and went on into New Year’s. While it got a little tiring it was only because we’re blessed to have a ton of family to spend time with. Mild weather through the end of the year and some negotiable tailwater [...]

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  • Weekly Digest for 2012-01-01

    Weekly Digest for 2012-01-01

    January 1st, 2012 | Fast Action | Ian | Comments Off

    Gunpowder Falls State Park trail in Maryland to be named for an embarassed Lefty Kreh http://t.co/RuGa3EbK # Donate $10 to TN Wildlife Resources Foundation and get the Andy Griffith Show theme ringtone http://t.co/YiBUCOTF #fishing # US Fish & Wildlife Service destroys 434,000 fingerling lake trout to avoid spreading Didymo in the Great Lakes http://t.co/cBZ0vJ74 #fishing [...]

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  • Weekly Digest for 2011-12-18

    Weekly Digest for 2011-12-18

    December 18th, 2011 | Fast Action | Ian | Comments Off

    The R&R Fly Fishing December Newsletter is out http://t.co/zIJezqDN # We take a look back at some of our favorite photos from a year in the life of R&R Fly Fishing http://t.co/VI7Bkmly #flyfishing # Powered by Twitter Tools

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  • Dogwood blooms on river

    A Year in the Life of R&R Fly Fishing, 2011 edition

    December 14th, 2011 | Fishing Report, Smallmouth Bass, smokies, Tailwaters, Western Fly Fishing | Ian | 2 Comments

    Now that the water has been high much of the time and the weather has turned cold we’ve gone back and taken a look back at the year we’ve had. It seems like the life of fly fishing guides is all fun and games, but it’s really quite hectic. It’s only now when we’re not [...]

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  • Weekly Digest for 2011-12-11

    Weekly Digest for 2011-12-11

    December 11th, 2011 | Fast Action | Ian | Comments Off

    A trip up Fires Creek from Sizemore Outdoors Photography http://t.co/YEMBtb72 # Massive logjam on French Broad River is rechanneling the river through a farm in Western North Carolina http://t.co/x1l7bDlh # Wild & public trout fisheries vs. pellet fed "trophy" streams you have to pay to fish. Chi Wulff stir it up http://t.co/Fmq6P1Zv #flyfishing # Supreme [...]

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  • Kayaker in the Smokies

    How can you tell when the water is high?

    December 8th, 2011 | Fishing Report, smokies, Tailwaters | Ian | Comments Off

    This is one way… We’re in the middle of another high water session all across the Smoky Mountain region with creeks boiling with whitewater and our tailwaters running full. The Norris Dam is about start spilling so we won’t be fishing the Clinch any time soon. Even the Watauga and South Holston, usual good bets [...]

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