Posts from the ‘smokies’ Category
It’s been an exceptionally mild winter here around East Tennessee. There’s been a few cold snaps along with some snow high in the Smokies, but the weather has been more like late fall or early spring than winter. This would normally mean excellent fishing, but it hasn’t been as simple as that. We’ve had a [...]
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I went to the latest Tennessee Coldwater meeting in Knoxville. This is essentially a summit where biologists from TVA, TWRA, the US Forest Service, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park come together to share information with each other and member of the Tennessee Council of Trout Unlimited. This isn’t a public meeting where regulation changes [...]
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Yesterday Charity and I took two new Tenkara rods out for the afternoon in the Smokies. We’ve been pretty curious for a while but finally pulled the trigger. Everything we’ve ever read about Tenkara touts its simplicity, and that is almost an understatement. There is very little to do in the way of set up [...]
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Yet another wet weather system has moved across East Tennessee and brought above average river levels even higher. That came after an exceptionally windy day. Here is a time lapse video from yesterday of the sunrise that foretold there was some weather on the way. You can tell something is up by looking at the [...]
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It’s been an unusually warm January. In fact, it’s felt much more like March. We’ve already seen some daffodils blooming and the extra warm weather has some rainbows looking up.
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Dragging weighted nymphs through a deep pool on a mild winter day in the Smokies
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It looks like another week of mild weather is on the way here in the Smokies, but it also comes with more high water. Our tailwaters have been blown out for a long time with very short breaks in the high flows. It’s absolutely pouring as I write this so we can be sure TVA [...]
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It’s probably mild where you are, but there’s snow on the crest of the Smokies. The highest point is Rocky Top, the summit of Thunderhead Mountain.
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While we don’t expect to get much sympathy from anybody, we don’t get to fish as much or as often as many of you think. We had a pretty ambitious holiday travel schedule to be with family and even left the country for a little more than a week. Since we’ve been back we’ve hit [...]
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To say we’ve had a wild week as far as weather is concerned is an understatement. We’ve had just about everything except scorching heat here in East Tennessee and the Smokies. Last weekend was exceptionally mild for January, but there was an interesting phenomenon in the Smokies. Since there wasn’t much wind and the sun [...]
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