Originally Posted by
Moveon
I wish you the best. I have a good book about fly fishing in the Smokey Mountains... "Smokey Mountains Trout Fishing Guide". by Don Kirk. Maybe you are aware of this guide book?
One place I could stay all day long is the bend in the road going back to Elk Mont. The pool is very deep and has boulders as big as houses under the water. The road is right next to the stream there. I was trying to catch some huge fish but they would not take anything I presented at them. They would rise up and sip the surface for small insects of some type which were way to small to see. But the fish were clearly visible and it was frustrating to see them so clearly and not be able to get them to bite. The Rangers came by while I was fishing and checked my fly to see if they had barbs on them. ( they didn't) and he even smelled the fly to make sure I didn't have any attractant juice on it. I did LOL. I had a little bit of DR JUICE that I had on my fingers and had applied to the small fly I was fishing with at the time. He probably could not tell as there was so little of it on the fly at the time. The next time he shows up I'll throw the fly up into that tree that grows next to the road/stream and he will have to climb up into the tree to check the fly. Just Kidding. I've only caught two small rain bows in those mountain streams and that was by luck. The water's always very low when I go to the Smokey's as I wait until the fall of the year when it doesn't rain as much. And the first time I went camping there it was during a drought and there was hardly any water running though the rivers that fall. But we had 8 straight days of excellent camping weather with no rain at all. Best camping trip I ever have had. It always rains when I go camping all the other times.
Anyway I've envious of you now. You are working in my favorite place in the USA.
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