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Fly Fish With Dropper Rigs to Catch More Trout
September 8th, 2008 | Article, droppers, dry flies, fly fishing, instruction, nymphs, smokies, Tailwaters, Western Fly Fishing | Ian | Comments Off
Fly fishing with dropper rigs is one of the most effective methods for catching trout with flies. First, it allows a fly fisher to fish two different fly patterns which doubles your chances of fishing the right fly at the right time. Second, it makes it possible to have a fly in two places at [...]
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Fly Fishing with Terrestrials: Learn to Tie and Fish the Elkmont Ant
August 14th, 2008 | Article, dry flies, fly fishing, fly tying, instruction | Ian | Comments Off
The Elkmont Ant is a fly I came up with a few years ago. I was doing a bit of guiding at Blackberry Farm where the fish were big and the water was small. A daily string of guides and anglers kept the trout pretty educated and even smaller fish became jaded by early July. [...]
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Fly Fishing in the Smokies Perks Up After Recent Rains
July 26th, 2008 | dry flies, Fishing Report, fly fishing, smokies | Ian | Comments Off
We’ve gotten thunderstorms with heavy rains 3 afternoons this week. This has allowed us plenty of time for fishing while bringing the stream levels up from a relatively low point. Overnight temperatures in the Smokies have been in the 50′s and this has also helped to perk up the fish. High temperatures on Friday remained [...]
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Fly Fishing Video: Casting to Rising Trout
July 24th, 2008 | dry flies, fly fishing, Rainbow Trout, Tailwaters, Tennessee, Video clips | Ian | Comments Off
As promised in my post from the other day, here’s some video from our float on the Holston River here in East Tennessee. There are some beautiful clips of rising trout. Those of you have been with us and missed a good number of fish might really enjoy this. Charity hooks up more than I [...]
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Fun with Rising Trout plus a Few Smallmouth Bass on Poppers
July 21st, 2008 | drift boat, dry flies, Fishing Report, fly fishing, poppers, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Tailwaters, Tennessee | Ian | Comments Off
Â Yesterday Charity and I hitched up the drift boat and headed over to the Holston River. Our original intent was to focus our attention on smallmouth bass, but we were in a section of the river that has good trout populations in addition to smallies. We put the boat in the river and the water [...]
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A Guide’s Day Off on Remote Brook Trout Water
July 11th, 2008 | Brook Trout, dry flies, Fishing Report, fly fishing, Rainbow Trout, smokies | Ian | Comments Off
Nobody has an office with a better view… It’s been a long season of guiding so far. I don’t think there are many tears shed for us while we spend most of our days on trout streams in the Smoky Mountains or floating the tailwaters in a drift boat. Still we don’t get to actually [...]
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Summer fly fishing forecast for East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains
July 6th, 2008 | Article, Brown Trout, drift boat, dry flies, fly fishing, nymphs, poppers, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, smokies, streamers, Tailwaters, Tennessee | Ian | Comments Off
Fly fishing on the rivers of East Tennessee and the streams of the Smoky Mountains has been excellent this spring. Our fisheries seem to have only suffered minimal impacts from last year’s drought and water levels are excellent this year. Tailwater fishing was as good as we’ve seen it this spring. We’ve already moved into [...]
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Excellent Fly Fishing in the Smoky Mountains and East Tennessee
May 22nd, 2008 | Brook Trout, Brown Trout, drift boat, dry flies, Fishing Report, fly fishing, poppers, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, smokies, Tailwaters, Tennessee | Ian | Comments Off
We haven’t had much of a chance to post a report because we’ve been on the water so much. Fly Fishing in East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains is superb any where you turn right now. We’ve been on just about any kind of water you’d want to fish this past week and it’s all [...]
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Beautiful Time for Fly Fishing in East Tennessee
April 24th, 2008 | drift boat, dry flies, Fishing Report, fly fishing, Rainbow Trout, smokies, Tailwaters, Tennessee | Ian | Comments Off
We’ve been out on the water almost everyday and covering a lot of water. We’ve been on the Tennessee and North Carolina sides of the Smokies plus floating the Holston several times a week. The caddis are hatching big time on the Holston and dry fly fishing is in full effect throughout the Smokies. Jim [...]
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Wherever You Go in East Tennessee Fly Fishing is Great!
April 6th, 2008 | drift boat, dry flies, Fishing Report, fly fishing, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, smokies, streamers, Tailwaters, Tennessee | Ian | Comments Off
Spring is truly here in East Tennessee and fly fishing has been great this week. The dogwoods are starting to bloom, hatches are taking place on the rivers, trout are rising, and even the smallmouth bass are beginning to take flies. We started the week in the Smokies. Greg and Frank Norris walked into the [...]
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