Fly Fishing in Western North Carolina at it’s finest! Hookers Fly Shop and Guide Service located in Sylva, North Carolina offers first rate guided fly fishing trips on the Tuckasegee River, the Tuckasegee Delayed Harvest Section, the Oconaluftee River, the Raven Fork Trophy Water, surrounding Great Smoky Mountains National Park streams and even the Little Tennessee River. We specialize in guided wade or float trips on the Tuckasegee and the Little Tennessee for trout and smallmouth bass as well as guided wade trips into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Cherokee. We are also conveniently located close to Harrahs Cherokee Casino, the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC and the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.
Hookers Fly Shop and Guide Service can do it all. Serving Sylva, Cullowhee, Waynesville, Franklin, Cherokee, Whittier, Bryson City, Nantahala, Cashiers, Highlands, Maggie Valley, the Gatlinburg and Cherokee side of the Smokies and more, we are the premier guide service in Western North Carolina.
Our guide services cover the following areas:
- Guided fly fishing wade and float trips on the Tuckasegee River and its Delayed Harvest Section
- Guided fly or spin fishing wade and float trips on the Little Tennessee River for Smallmouth
- Guided fly fishing or spin fishing Tuckasegee Smallmouth Float Trips
- Guided fly fishing trips on the Nantahala River including the Nantahala Delayed Harvest
- Guide fly fishing on the WNC Fly Fishing Trail including Scotts Creek, Caney Fork , Panthertown Valley, Tuckasegee Upper and Lower, East and West Fork of the Tuckasegee
- Guided fly fishing on the Cherokee Indian Reservation including the Raven Fork and Oconaluftee River
- Guided fly fishing the East, West and Middle Prong of the Pigeon River including the Delayed Harvest Section.
- Guided fly fishing on the Cherokee Trophy Section.
- Guided fly fishing in the Smokies.
- Guided backcountry trip in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Guided fly fishing trips on Deep Creek, Hazel Creek, Forney Creek, Straight Fork, Oconaluftee, Little River, Abrams Creek, Kephart Prong, Eagle Creek and many more.
We love what we do and it shows! With over 300 trips a year, no other outfitters offers more types of trips or has better guides. We even work with big groups and families. Hookers Fly Shop’s guided trips truly are the ultimate experience in fishing the Smokies! We encourage you to browse our site and see what Hookers Fly Shop and Guide Service has to offer and find out why they call us “The Best Little Fly Shop in the Smokies”!
We are permitted, licensed and insured to operate in the Nantahala National Forest and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
You can read a great article featuring the Tuckasegee River (and of course us) in American Angler Magazine by clicking HERE!
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