Autumn Splendor

Who doesn't complain about the leaves on the water during the fall? It is great to learn casting techniques for getting through leaves, but we are always left reminiscing about leaf free spring time drifts. The trade off is awesome scenery and sometimes a cool photograph that makes us think twice about why we go.

This is a client from last weekend’s first fish. It was one of our smaller fish of the day, but the photo made me think about how much I appreciated the beauty of North Carolina Mountains in the fall.

That is enough romanticizing. I need to get back to my fly tying vise so I am ready for this weekend.

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Watauga River Tailwater Fishing is On Fire

I took Kevney Dugan from Bend, OR on a float fly fishing trip down the Quality Section of the Watauga River. We hooked a ton of fish on dries and nymphs. One was a nice brown trout on a midge nymph that we managed to stop and take a picture of. We got another nice rainbow that ate a caddis dry fly, but was in water too fast to stop in. The past two weeks up there have been very consistent on the Watauga River.

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Quick Tuckaseegee Reconnaissance Trip

I hadn't fished the Tuckaseegee since last spring so I went down to Dillsoboro for a few hours to find some fish and make sure I knew what flies they would eat. The hole we picked to fish ended up having a good number of fish in it and Annie and I hooked about a dozen fish pretty quickly. We fished a double nymph rig w/ a variety of midges trailing an egg. Both the fishing and the weather were great. Unfortunately we couldn't stay long, but I will be back on the Tuck with some of you soon.

The leaves up here are absolutely gorgeous right now! No better time to be fly fishing in NC or TN.

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South Holston Streamers and Blue Winged Olives

Fishing on the South Holston was pretty tough in the morning. We fished streamers and scratched out some solid fish. The afternoon/evening prouduced an awesome blue winged olive hatch that brought a ton of fish to the surface. We landed lots of fish in a short time period on blue wing duns. Awesome fishing. Thanks to TJ Roy and Jason Bryant from ORVIS Charlotte for coming and fishing with me.

Fall fly fishing on the tailwaters is awesome.

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East Fork French Broad

Annie and I fished the East Fork of the French Broad for the first time Oct. 3. The river was busy as expected opening weekend, but fishing was great. We fished for a few hours and caught plenty of fish taking turns every other fish. We fly fished two spots, the first was the most produtive, but the second had a huge rainbow trout that I am definately going after again. Awesome spot that I look forward to taking some of you to see.

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