Posts from the ‘smokies’ Category
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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It’s been a long holiday season for us that began over a week before Christmas and went on into New Year’s. While it got a little tiring it was only because we’re blessed to have a ton of family to spend time with. Mild weather through the end of the year and some negotiable tailwater [...]
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Now that the water has been high much of the time and the weather has turned cold we’ve gone back and taken a look back at the year we’ve had. It seems like the life of fly fishing guides is all fun and games, but it’s really quite hectic. It’s only now when we’re not [...]
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This is one way… We’re in the middle of another high water session all across the Smoky Mountain region with creeks boiling with whitewater and our tailwaters running full. The Norris Dam is about start spilling so we won’t be fishing the Clinch any time soon. Even the Watauga and South Holston, usual good bets [...]
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Yup, the water’s high in the Smokies… This is what it looked like Tuesday, November 29 on the Middle Prong of Little River near the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont.
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We managed to capture this on video over the weekend and thought there would be plenty of you who would like to see it. This is a bear cub at Tremont. His mother had already crossed the stream and he was somewhat less than enthusiastic about making the plunge, and we can understand. The water [...]
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Water was up and rolling so we started out with streamers to stir up some big brown trout. It didn’t take long to figure out the browns had no interest in streamers but we could still pick up some fish on nymphs.
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It’s that time of year here in the Smokies when we have our best shots at hooking up with the really big fish. We’re not talking about 12″ – 14″ fish that put a lump in your throat when they eat your dry fly in May. We’re talking about fish that would be considered big [...]
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It looks like we’re in for a generally warm week with some rainy weather here in the Smoky Mountain region. That’s not really a bad thing when you consider it’s mid-November and by the time it gets this late in the year rain could easily be snow in the mountains. We saw some very cold [...]
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We’re on the tail end of another busy guide season and starting to find some time to go fishing for ourselves. After weeks of being out on the water guiding and instructing fly fishing sometimes you start to wonder if you’d even remember how to get a good drift. Yesterday Charity and I were able [...]
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