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It’s relatively rare we get the time to go on even a short, regional trip when spring fishing is at its best. Thanks to this year’s early spring it looks like that will happen. The guiding has started up, but has yet to reach the fever pitch it will in a couple more weeks, so [...]
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Water levels in the Smokies have receded to quite fishable levels after they spike up pretty high late last week, but we have some more rain on the way today. So far it looks like the system is breaking up and should only bring us light and scattered rain showers. As fly fishing guides [...]
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Big Sky Brewing Company: Beer for Fly Fishing http://t.co/VUIcgkxx # A graphic that describes trout bums everywhere http://t.co/lUoWyd4I # Tellico River clean up Saturday March 10 in Cherokee National Forest. Free T-shirt for the first 100 to arrive http://t.co/Gk2LJXro # From Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine: Fly fishing in the Southern mountains with Tenkara http://t.co/RmPnAsls # [...]
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Spring is here and the guide season has arrived with it. I did my first full day trip of 2012 and it was a good one. Fish were rising quite well and the few spots where we couldn’t rise a fish we often drew a strike on a nymph. We even managed to get a [...]
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The fly fishing in the Smokies continues to be great! And the fishing on our local tailwaters… Did we mention that the fishing in the Smokies is great?!? We had some high water over the weekend, but that has subsided and there are clear flows in all of the mountain streams. All of the charts [...]
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From our fishing report: Charity’s excellent adventure in Patagonia continues & she's sent pictures to make us jealous http://t.co/9qxyY0d6 # Receive text or email alerts about water levels for free from USGS WaterAlert http://t.co/d0xm4a9f # A list of injuries from a year in the Smokies Nat'l Park and how they happened. Care to guess how [...]
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We’ve gotten some new equipment that allows us to get some really nice underwater images. Here’s a brown trout and rainbow trout, both from Little River in the Smokies. The fish are rising quite well, even if the number of bugs seems to be diminishing. The Quill Gordon hatch usually gets started in a week [...]
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This past weekend I couldn’t take it any longer and took the drift boat over to the Clinch River. Flows have been high for months now and while I wouldn’t do a guided trip under these conditions, I just had to get out and row the boat on a pretty day. I can’t say I’m [...]
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We’re holding it together here in East Tennessee while Charity’s continued cavorting fish fest hard work in Patagonia continues. All we can say is that Charity is redefining work as we know it. Here are some pictures, but be warned, some of what follows is graphic and may disturb those who work in an office. [...]
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Trout Underground discusses Simms' move to direct sales. Be sure to check out the lively discussion of comments http://t.co/9tuzbOsu # From our fishing report: Charity is in Patagonia while we get the stunning beauty of snow in the Smoky Mountains http://t.co/jO0OwnR4 # Hey! There's Dave Perry and our old Hyde drift boat in a videa [...]
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