Posts from the ‘fly fishing’ Category
We’re back home from the Rockies, but the weather is virtually the same as what we left in Montana and Idaho. Overnight temperatures have been down in the 30′s up in the Smokies with the highest peaks falling into the 20′s. Daytime temperatures are in the high 60′s or low 70′s so it’s the perfect [...]
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Rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ike brought some beneficial rain to the Smoky Mountains without creating any flooding. A touch of fall is in the air now that overnight temperatures are sinking into the 50′s and afternoon temperatures are in the 70′s in the mountains. Dry fly fishing is good right now. The basic [...]
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Fall is almost upon us and with it comes some great dry fly fishing. Rising trout in the fall are more difficult to coax to a dry fly than they are in the spring. Spring hatches are usually more robust with more bugs on the water. Additionally, the bugs are much larger. Low water conditions [...]
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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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We’ve had a few personal days to do some fly fishing here in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. First, I took a hike well upstream of Elkmont to fish upper Little River well above Fish Camp Prong. This is the area where Meigs Post Prong enters the stream and brook trout start [...]
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We’ve had several days of steady rains here in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. This will have excellent results for anyone planning to do some fly fishing over the coming weekend. Yesterday we received a shade less than an inch of rain here in Townsend and about the same in Galinburg. However, [...]
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Rain is forecast for the next few days over the Smokies Things have gotten a tad crispy and the most of the streams were beginning to look pretty dry, but today we’ve gotten our wish. The remnants of tropical storm Fay are forecast to bring rain to East Tennessee and Western North Carolina for the [...]
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Now that school has started back up there’s a bit of a lull in the guiding. That’s usually the way it goes, busy through spring and summer, a lull in mid-August, the rush of Labor Day weekend, then another lull as college football gets going strong in September. The cool weather and autumn color of [...]
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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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It’s been an extremely busy week here in the fly fishing mines of the Smoky Mountains and East Tennessee. We’ve spent several days guiding anglers in some out of the way streams in the Smokies, helped park biologists monitor a brook trout stream one day, and did a float on the Holston on another. I [...]
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