Clint Holcomb had a great trip on Scotts Creek in the gorge with his client from Bryson City. They brought in several wild rainbows on brown/olive caddis pupa and also #14 Tellico nymphs. They even brought in a 14-15 inch brown trout.
Scotts Creek Trip
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Fly Fishing in Cherokee, NC
Guided clients Elise, Steven, and Matt from Apex, NC, on Saturday. We fished both the Lower Oconaluftee and Soco Creek. They landed some nice rainbows including several beautiful wild bows on the Lower Luftee. Matt got his first ever trout on the fly with a #8 Brown Marvin with a #14 Superflash Pheasant Tail dropper. There was a very small hatch of Little Yellow Stones but nothing rising to them. We finished out the day on upper Soco Creek and managed to get several wild bows on #14 Yellow Sallies and #14 Light Cahills.
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Guided Trip On the Tuck a Success.
Successful day on the upper Tuckasegee today. James M. form Orlando, FL landed 3 nice browns and 2 beautiful rainbows. He had one big brown about 18″ almost to the net. Fish were taken on #8 Brown Marvins (Stonefly Pattern) with a #18 midge dropper. We also had several fish rise to a #12 Yellow PMX.
A Brown Marvin is a Girdle Bug pattern. You can find them at the fly shop.
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Tuckasegee River
With catch and release restrictions being lifted and the arrival of bait and spin fisherman to the Tuckasegee Delayed Harvest on June 4th, it has us all wishing for the first week of October. October brings cooler weather and of course the season’s first stocking of the Tuck DH. While some of us are sitting around waiting on October to get here, the rest of us are out exploring what other sections of the river has to offer. The Tuckasegee also has some great trout water both above and below the delayed harvest section. The Tuck has about 20 miles of hatchery supported water which is stocked with around 10,000 rainbow, brook and brown from March to June.
Smallmouth Float on the Tuck
The lower sections of the river from the Barker’s Creek all the way down to Fontana Lake offers some of best Smallmouth Bass fishing in the South. Our recent float trips down these sections have been producing some of the biggest bass we’ve seen in a long time with several smallmouth weighing in at over 5 pounds. One of the best things about these trips is that you never know what you might reel in. Past trips have caught trout in the 20-25 inch range, large walleye, largemouth, redeye bass, carp and perch.
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Fishing the Smokies
The streams in the Smokies have been fishing extremely well over the last few weeks. With Yellow Stones and Light Cahills as the main hatches the dry fly action has been fantastic. Use Little Yellow Stones in sizes 14-16 and Light Cahills in sizes 12-16. With the recent heavy rain you may also think about throwing some big stonefly nymphs when the streams are high and off color. Any golden stone or brown stone pattern should do the trick. An excellent pattern for the Smokies is Lowe’s V-Rib Stonefly in #6, #8 or #10. Fishing can be great almost anytime of day in the Smokies but you would do well to remember that the early morning hours and the hours right around dusk will produce the best fishing. Larger browns tend to be more active at these times.
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