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    Troutfest

    Leaving here in a couple of hours for four days of fishing and hanging with Lefty and Bob Clouser and the crew. That's how I roll!

    http://www.troutfest.org/

    Hope to post some photos when I get back. See ya Sunday

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    Re: Troutfest

    Have fun!

    -Rich

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    Re: Troutfest

    Take lots of pictures

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    Just got back this afternoon had a great time. I am so important to the fly fishing world that Lefty Kreh and Bob Clouser wanted their pictures made with me!

    http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...outfest014.jpg

    http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...outfest016.jpg

    Predatory stillness on the Little River

    http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...outfest005.jpg

    Lefty casting clinic

    http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...outfest026.jpg

    Bob Clouser teaching how to cast weighted flies

    http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...outfest021.jpg

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    Re: Troutfest

    Good to see that you make it this year. Great Pics, but where are the ones with the Smoky Mountain trout?

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    Re: Troutfest

    Quote Originally Posted by Boone View Post
    Good to see that you make it this year. Great Pics, but where are the ones with the Smoky Mountain trout?

    A question I knew I was going to have to answer Gary. Might sound like BS but here goes. On Friday the wife and I went to Townsend and hit Little River Outfitters. Bought her license and picked up some flies and odds and ends. Drove along Little River near Metcalfe Bottoms, couldn't find hardly anywhere for her to access the water. So I fished some likely looking spots, which explains the picture of me wading. I moved upstream and finally after an hour caught a 10 inch rainbow. She got the camera out and it wouldn't come on. Dead batteries, which infuriated me because I bought those batteries brand new Wednesday on my way to Otter Creek. We drove up stream a ways and I finally got into a groove. Caught 12 rainbows and two browns, largets was a brown that went about 12 inches. All were caught on a #16 Yellow Neversink Caddis or a Yellow Sallie.

    Saturday we went to Troutfest and stayed until 3 p.m. I then drove her back to the room in Pigeon Forge and went back to the park and fished Little River at Elkmont. Didn't have near the luck as the day before, but did manage three rainbows and a sucker on the caddis. Camera was at the room!

    Believe it or not but there it is!

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    Fishing results sound excellent to me, especially considering the time spent on the water. To bad about the camera though.

    Fished the Elkmont myself last year (think I was casting a dry something?) and didn't do any good, however a couple of other anglers pool hoping behind/ahead of me were doing pretty good on the rainbows using wet flies. Didn't get a good look, other then they were ~ # 8 or larger and black in color.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boone View Post
    Fishing results sound excellent to me, especially considering the time spent on the water. To bad about the camera though.

    Fished the Elkmont myself last year (think I was casting a dry something?) and didn't do any good, however a couple of other anglers pool hoping behind/ahead of me were doing pretty good on the rainbows using wet flies. Didn't get a good look, other then they were ~ # 8 or larger and black in color.
    I would have never tried fishing anything that large on any of those streams down there. Sounds like I might have to re-think that. When I go down there it usually takes me sometime to get back in the groove because the fishing is so much different. Sneaking and stalking and short drifts are not what I am used to. Plus takes me a good hour to get my wading legs under me because I am not used to wading those heavy flowing freestone streams. I did manage to fish both days without taking a swim which might be a first for me on Smoky Mountain streams.

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    Re: Troutfest

    I hate to miss it this year. I was there 2 years ago to watch Lefty and do some tying. I now have a tying table but not good on it yet. So much to learn. If anglers can't make it to the Lake Cumberland Kayak Fishing tournament/festival, I can sell $10 raffle tickets for the Reel Recovery TFO fly rod package worth $275.00.

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