Gatlinburg Fishing?

dam it man,must be nice to have a ladie that will let you fish when you go someplace like that,and to fish with you,,does she have a sister?
i'm gong the 3rd week of oct. and when i said i was taking a fishing pole to fish just a little i was told very seriously that a divorce would be filed when we returned home,but ii get 5 days of shopping hmmm.
mine fished with me at first now it is the most stupid thing she's ever seen and refuses to go..enjoy the one you got. this really piiiisssses me off to hear the fishin is good too..sorry,,have fun and show us some pics. of the fish of course.

[quote=CTFSHWHISKER;301327]dam it man,must be nice to have a ladie that will let you fish when you go someplace like that,and to fish with you,,does she have a sister?
i'm gong the 3rd week of oct. and when i said i was taking a fishing pole to fish just a little i was told very seriously that a divorce would be filed when we returned home,but ii get 5 days of shopping hmmm.
mine fished with me at first now it is the most stupid thing she's ever seen and refuses to go..enjoy the one you got. this really piiiisssses me off to hear the fishin is good too..sorry,,have fun and show us some pics. of the fish of course.[/quote]
Yep, she is a keeper for sure!:) Even brought us some cold water at our weigh in today, she wanted to see what a tourny weigh in is all about.

[quote=DJD;301354]Yep, she is a keeper for sure!:) Even brought us some cold water at our weigh in today, she wanted to see what a tourny weigh in is all about.[/quote]

Uh oh...looks like Cupid was using a broadhead on that arrow...

:D

[QUOTE=MrSplitshot;301359]Uh oh...looks like Cupid was using a broadhead on that arrow...

:D[/QUOTE]

i guess i shot with one of them rusty fish spears...slow agonizing pain but never die...
what about the sister?

[quote=CTFSHWHISKER;301371]i guess i shot with one of them rusty fish spears...slow agonizing pain but never die...
what about the sister?[/quote]
You and Splitshot are killing me:D As far as the sisters well....spoken for and spoken for.:)
I hope to go back in December myself to take my little girl to see the Christmas lights...i'm sure i'll find a way to take a rod!

Last time I went, we rented a house called the 'Summer Breeze' on Douglas Lake outside Sevierville. Took the boat, house had a private dock and ramp right next to it. It was beautiful, with the smokies looking down on me each morning. One side was shallow flats with brush/grass, one side was rocky and deep. Plenty of creeks and islands. I caught a bunch of nice bass that week and only fished like 5am to 9am each day til girls woke up. Afternoons, we'd roll in to G'burg. It was a great trip.

I'll be there Dec.23-28. I'm the only one in the group that likes to fish, the rest of them are late sleepers and shoppers. Someone please rescue me and give me some fishing tips and places to keep me out of those shopping excursions!!!!

Little River Camp Ground in Townsend is where I use to camp. Townsend is the quiet side of the area. It's closer to Cades Cove too. And there are no outlet malls in Townsend. LOL So you can eat all you M&M and won't have to drop them on the floor. :(

Gatlinburg, TN, Pigeon Forge, TN and Townsend are my favorite vacation spots.

I might add that the hooks have to be single hooks and BARBLESS. Also no fish attractor scents are allowed on the baits. Now this is inside the park.

The rules are different in the areas outside the park. Might want to check with the bait shops or park rangers to find out for sure.

I purchased a book on the mountain streams and still have it.

Cades cove is the most fertile stream in the entire park. There is a limestone bed that the creek runs though and this helps to raise the water's pH. Acid rain has lowered a lot of the streams pH and aquatic insects don't do well in water with low pH. Acid water that is. The limestone bedrock in Abrams creek allows the water to be more neutral and there is abundant aquatic insect life in this stream. That's why there are big fish in Abrams Creek. Most of the mountain is granite and granite won't neutralize the acid rainfall.

If you go up above a certain elevation you may run into some Brook Trout. Not sure what the regs are these days or how the Brook trout are doing. But they were off limits back in the early 1990's when I last fished in the park.

Little Pigeon River and Pigeon River along little pigeon River road has a lot of spots where you can pull over and climb down to the stream and fish.

And look out for the bears or the wild pigs. I only saw a few bears and they were all in the parks picnic area. The bears like to come down and run the people away from their food and then eat anything that they can find. Most people don't argue with the bears. LOL

I have smelled what I though was a bear along the trail but never ran across one while I was out hiking or fishing in the streams.

Stay for a week or more and put a few days aside for the wife to go shopping and then a few days for you to fish. That makes the wife happy.

Seems like every time I fished the streams the water levels were very low. I caught a few small rainbow trout using a fly rod and a cadis fly nymph.

The park ranger checked my bait and was looking at the hook to make sure if was barb-less and didn't have any attractant on the bait. I was fishing just downstream from the ELKMONT Ranger Station and campground. I saw huge trout in the deeper parts of this stream right by the main road going into the campground. There is a steep drop from the road to the stream that's lined with rip rap. There is a deep pool there that you can see from the roadway. It's about 15 ft deep or so and you can see the huge boulders on the bottom as the water is so clear. I think that's my favorite spot in the entire park. But the trout would not touch my baits. They would look at them and just move aside and then sip something from the surface film. What ever they were eating was too small for my old tired eyes to see. Those trout are educated and hard to fool The ranger told me to fish the rapids and that I had a better chance to catch a trout in the rapids or turbulent water.

Get some dry stocking foot waders and wade in the streams with a fly rod.

[quote=Tim_T;301284]The guy wasn't pulling your leg, anywhere in the national park is restricted to single hooks.

BTW, the best fly shop is in Townsend, TN. The folks at Little River Outfitters are an awesome bunch and I always go out of my way to stop there when I am down that way. Here is their web site: http://littleriveroutfitters.com/[/quote]