- Freestone Streams -Part One6/17/08 When we were fishing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park last week, mygrandson ask me “where does the water come from”. I thought that was a goodquestion and maybe one that a lot of other folks may not have thought about. A freestone stream is born at the top of mountains as drops of rainwater andmelting snowflakes. As gravity forces these droplets to seep through thecrevices of rocks, soil and organic matter, they combine into small trickles ofwater. These trickles eventually collide and become larger and larger. They formtiny streams that you can step across. The tiny streams eventually… Read More »Freestone Streams -Part One
- More on Fishing Cold WaterJanuary (1/09/08): I will try to answer three different questions in email I received from the coldwater article of January 6, 2008.1. The first question was pertaining to when to use dry flies and when to usenymphs. Making this decision solely based on water temperature could be a bigmistake. There are times when you may want to fish a nymph when the watertemperature is 55 degrees F. and higher. There is no magic range for eitherone. I think what this person really meant to ask is “when does the water get tocold to catch trout on the dry fly”. With… Read More »More on Fishing Cold Water
- Spawning Brown Trout(10/27/07):We recently returned from Yellowstone National Park where the brown trout areahead of Smoky Mountain brown trout with their annual spawning process. Ofcourse this is due to Yellowstone’s climate which results in water temperaturesthat are much lower at this time of year than here in the Smokies.Yesterday we noticed that the brown trout have already begin the spawningprocess in the Smokies. Of course it is still early for the majority of spawning totake place. The water temperature is still on the high side for spawning.Although we have had recent rainfall, the streams are still very low from whatthey would ideally… Read More »Spawning Brown Trout
- Straight Fork Stream Water Temperature(8/14/07):Angie and I just returned from Wisconsin where we had been fishing the lovelysmall spring creeks to find several emails from this website as well as ourYellowstone website (www.flyfishingyellowstonenationalpark.com) regardingwater temperatures in both parks. In general, they were concerned about thevery high temperatures and low water conditions in both locations.Normally this time of year we fish early in the mornings in the park. I say normallyand that is really not the case because normally we are in the Yellowstone area.Last year we spent most of August and September fishing inside the YellowstonePark working on a video we will have available… Read More »Straight Fork Stream Water Temperature
- East Prong of the Little River Terrestrial Hopper/Beetle Rig(8/9//07):We have recently returned from the New England area and did not have time toget this out prior to leaving. Prior to our departure at the end of July, we fishedthe Little River after the water was back down to a fairly low level andtemperatures were again reaching the high sixties during the afternoon. For acouple of days, late in the day, we had quite a bit of success using a smallbeetle on a dropper rig. Now this is not a new method of fly fishing. It is in factfairly common. We are just reporting some results to you that… Read More »East Prong of the Little River Terrestrial Hopper/Beetle Rig
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