Bryson City = Trout City
We have arrived! The stocking trucks showed up late last week and put 5400 trout in a 2 mile section right through the heart of Bryson...
1st Annual Smoky Mountain Fly Fishing Festival
Out of ICAST/IFTD 2015 came many new products and lines for anglers around the globe. The best idea/product that came from attending the...
Busy Summer
It is hard to believe that July has come and now gone! I thought the 4th was just last week! In all seriousness July was an incredible...
Closing of the Western Frontier
As the results from the 1890 U.S. Census data came in, Frederick Jackson Turner declared the Western Frontier closed in 1893. The...
The Cure for the Summer Time Blues
Smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu Overview The smallmouth bass is most often bronze to brownish green with dark vertical bars on its...
Furled What?! A few thoughts on another tool in the Shed
Furled Leaders or Not Furled Leaders? I recently won a furled leader at our last local Trout Unlimited chapter meeting, and wondered what...
Catch'em if You Got'em!
Many anglers that frequent WNC already know that the Southern Appalachian Brook Trout call our mountains home, and has since the ice age....
April Showers Bring….
April Showers bring May Flowers...Has certainly held true for Spring 2015! We have been on a pattern for most of April where showers...
The Ancients Among Us
Quite possibly the oldest indegenous organism living in Western North Carolina streams is the Hellbender. Wild Rainbow trout found in...
March Fishing Report
March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, acording to lore. This year it seems quite the opposite despite some rainy days here and...
