Fly Fishing Adventures
in the Southern Appalachians
in the Southern Appalachians
Mark caught this nice bow during caddis on a two boat trip with Jake and Mark on the Holston... the river is on fire right now.
Mark has begun to put in a little time on the Toccoa and here is some of what it has produced. The water is a great level and a good temperature. The color is an opaque emerald, not quite clear. Best fishing has been sub-surface which has a produced a few real bruisers. Not a numbers game, but a chance at some really nice fish.
Here is Tony, our first 20 inch club member for 2011 with a 23-inch rainbow. Good job.
Auburn grads, Chance Johnson and Jeremy Pipkin fishing the Hi with Petey; catching some bows - the largest being 15".
We have experienced a glorious April on the Hiwassee with lots of rainbows like this one and bugs like we have never seen. Plenty of mayflies and an occasional caddis blizzard. May promises to be more great fishing as different flow levels open up more segments of the river to fishing.
My friend, Gordon Eisert says "Fishin instead of Wishin." That is what Petey has been doing at the stair step rapids lately. Here is one Dale caught on the way down last week.
This pair of earthly New Zealanders spent a day on the Hiwassee with us last weekend. Just coming off of pulling heavy streamers for browns in difficult conditions back home during the end of their fall season. They enjoyed a day dry fly fishing with us on an absolutely beautiful day. Thank you Tom and Allen for taking the time to scout out, find and fish our treasured river with us. The next two months will be awesome. p.s. For our readers, I checked them for mud snails and didymo and they were clean. Dane
We have a great spring situation occurring on the river now. TVA is doing some work to the penstock in Apalachia Lake so we are getting a constant flow from the dam which is the equivalence of between one and two turbines. This should persist through April and is a perfect flow to fish the upper river from the powerhouse to Reliance and the middle section. We very rarely have these flows. I believe it has been about eight years since the last opportunity. What this means is we get to fish the upper and middle sections from the drift boats and that is where the best mayfly action occurs. We should have Hendricksons with caddis mixed in turning to Sulphurs late April into May.
