Category: Brown Trout
By Ian on Mar 10, 2010 in Brown Trout, Fishing Report, dry flies | 0 Comments
It’s been in the 60’s and we’ve been fishing without a jacket. In fact, we’ve had our sleeves rolled up. There are bugs on the stream, but the fish haven’t quite gotten on them just yet. Every nice run or pool has yielded a rise, but as of yesterday (March 9) we still haven’t seen [...]
By Ian on Jan 21, 2010 in Brown Trout, Fishing Report, smokies | 2 Comments
We’ve done all kinds of things since the last post. While we’ve done some fishing we also traveled up to Indianapolis to speak at a meeting of the Indianapolis Fly Casters. There was a large and enthusiastic turnout and I’m pretty sure we made a few former Tennesseans homesick for the trout fishing they left [...]
By Ian on Aug 3, 2009 in Article, Brown Trout, Clinch River, Tailwaters, Tennessee | 3 Comments
It’s been a couple of weeks ago now, but I came across the the biggest brown trout I’ve ever seen on the Clinch River. I had taken Gary Newton from Berea, Kentucky on a float trip. It was a pretty good day of fishing with most trout taking midge patterns in the #20 range. A [...]
By Ian on Jul 27, 2009 in Brown Trout, Clinch River, Fishing Report, Holston River, Smallmouth Bass, Tailwaters, poppers, smokies | Comments Off
It’s been too long since I’ve posted a report and the reason is because we’ve been fishing so much. Fishing in the Smokies, fishing on the tailwaters, fishing for smallmouth. You name it, we’ve done it over the past two weeks.
Smoky Mountains
Water levels have come down to where you’d expect them to be in late [...]
By Ian on Jun 11, 2009 in Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Fishing Report, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Tailwaters, smokies | 2 Comments
The big news is that the drought is officially over. In fact, we’re
currently running a rainfall surplus here in East Tennessee. This has not
only brought our stream levels back to normal, but also has implications for
fly fishing on the tailwaters.
Smoky Mountain Streams
Spring hatches started strong with Quill Gordon mayflies in the Smokies and
midges on the [...]
By Ian on Dec 30, 2008 in Article, Black Bears, Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Hazel Creek, Holston River, Little River, North Carolina, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Tennessee, drift boat, fly fishing, smokies | Comments Off
Another year has come and gone. We’re gearing up for a busy 2009. We’ve got a hefty schedule of appearing at fly fishing expos in the next couple of months, we’ve got two new books that will be coming out within a month, and we’ve already booked a number of guided trips. But before we [...]
By Ian on Dec 1, 2008 in Brown Trout, Fishing Report, Holston River, Little River, Tailwaters, Tennessee, fly fishing, smokies | Comments Off
Thanksgiving weekend has come and gone and the guide season left with it. It’s snowing pretty hard right now in Townsend, but nothing’s sticking. Regardless it’s a strong reminder that the guide season is essentially over.
It’s always the same every fall. September is a period of relatively light guiding as the kids are back in [...]
By Ian on Nov 17, 2008 in Brown Trout, Fishing Report, Little River, Tennessee, fly fishing, smokies | Comments Off
We’ve had our usual slow down in guiding in mid-November. This has had us scrambling to get as much fishing in as possible while the weather is still pretty good. That may be up for debate as we’re looking at a week of weather that sure looks like it’s winter. Newfound Gap Road was closed [...]
By Ian on Nov 9, 2008 in Brown Trout, Clinch River, Fishing Report, Little River, Tailwaters, Tennessee, smokies | Comments Off
It’s been an eventful week of fly fishing and guiding here in the Smokies and on the Clinch River in east Tennessee. Fall provides the best chances to put a fly on big brown trout and this was the week.
I caught this fish on Little River this week
The weather, fall colors, and fly fishing were [...]
By Ian on Nov 4, 2008 in Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Clinch River, Fishing Report, Little River, Rainbow Trout, Tailwaters, Tennessee, dry flies, fly fishing, nymphs, smokies | Comments Off
We’ve been on the water almost every day which is why we haven’t posted a report in a while. East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains have reached peak fall color and the fly fishing has been great for the most part. There was a lull in the fishing earlier this week after the first snowfall [...]