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[Tim_T]

Ryan, give me a yell on here sometime and maybe I could meet you up there and give you a hand. I have fished it tons over the years (so much that I nearly cried when they closed it) an might be able to help you out.

[ryan5fish]

thanks flylie and tim that sounds good

[Oldhipboots]

Ryan, I don't fish specifically for trout so, this time of year, I fish a mayfly, a midge, small slow sinking craws, ants, San Juan worms and small green-foam inch worms (floating) when fishing skinny water. I've found that anything in skinny water will hit these flys, including trout. Of course, like most, I try to carry every conceivable fly know to man, just in case.

[Tim_T]

Guess I could have listed some flies in my first post!

Ryan, one thing you have to remember on most small streams, is while there may be a lot of different bugs available, there are not prolific hatches of different insects. the fish, be it trout, smallmouth or any other stream fish will not usually key on an individual species of insect. Because of this I prefer to use attractor flies. I usually fish a dry fly with a nymph on a dropper.

For the dry fly I will normally use a size 12 Adams or Royal Wulff, occasionally I might use an Elk Hair Caddis. For the nymph I normally tie a 12-18 inch dropper from the dry fly hook using a pitzen knot. To this I will fish a size 14 or 16 Hare's Ear, Pheasant Tail or Prince nymph. In my experience you can catch small stream trout on nearly any combination of these. It is a little trickier when fishing for wild trout like in the Smokies, you have to be careful about spooking the fish. If you can get a good drag free drift you will be able to catch fish.

[colonelmeyer]

Saw my first hopper on Father's day. Didn't spot any that where over an inch but, that didn't stop the small bass and big gills from crushing my foam hopper. Trout love them too.