Our entire guide line up spent the weekend on Hazel Creek with a group of anglers from Ohio. The weather was absolutely perfect on Thursday and Friday. Things got pretty wet on Saturday, but the good fishing continued.
Overall, most of the fish our group caught was on nymphs, but my anglers had a good day [...]

Fly fishing in the Smoky Mountains and East Tennessee has reached it’s spring peak and our guide service has been absolutely slammed. We’ve had two or more guides on the water all week and covered all kinds of water.
The Smokies are still fishing great. However, don’t get your heart set on dry fly fishing all [...]

I’ve been in the drift boat for the past several days. We’re not seeing much in the way of hatches beyond sporadic midges at this point, but we’re expecting caddis to start hatching on the Holston River soon. Dry fly fishing is excellent in the Smokies and there’s not much sign of that letting up [...]

We’ve spent a lot of time out on the water over the past few days. It’s that time of year and we have a full week of bookings next week.
Yesterday Charity and I were both on Little River. There weren’t many bugs hatching, but the fish would certainly rise to a good drift. There were [...]

We can sum up the fishing pretty quickly – It’s excellent where ever you go right now. We’re glad to report that because our guide season really cranked up. We’ll have multiple guides on the water several days this week. Our wading boots and drift boat oars will both get a work out.
The recent warm [...]

The weather and fly fishing have been nothing short of superb this week in East Tennessee. The bugs have really been hatching on the mountain streams and things are just starting to get cranked up on our local tailwaters.
I spent the day doing a guided float on the Holston River yesterday and most of our [...]

We’re about to start a bit more fishing and floating on the Holston and Clinch Rivers, but right now we’re still enjoying all the great dry fly fishing in the Smokies. Today Charity reported that the fish started to rise by 10 AM and was best when the sun was out.
The weather forecast for the [...]

It’s been another week of good mayfly hatches in the Smoky Mountains and midge fishing on the tailwaters. Fishing continues to be spotty on the Clinch River with slow periods broken up by several minutes of really good activity. It doesn’t seem like there has been very much insect activity on the Clinch so that [...]

It looks like winter didn’t really go away so much as give us a quick head fake before charging right back into our fly fishing in the Smokies. Yesterday was a relatively miserable kind of day; cold, wet, and snowy. The water was a little high after rain on Sunday.
I was actually expecting a pretty [...]

Spring officially arrived this weekend and it sure felt like it under warm, sunny skies. Beautiful weather here in East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains made for a great few days of fly fishing. The catching was anywhere from fair to excellent depending on your exact location, but the fishing was phenomenal after a long [...]