smokies fishing advice

[Adam McDowell]

I will be in the smokies on the north side (pigeon forge side) mid september and was looking for fishing advice in the area. I am not too crazy about fishing bigger rivers necessarily as much as pocket water creeks. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

[anonymous]

Adam,

Have you been to the area before?

[Adam McDowell]

Thanks Matt, is Abrams creek worth fishing of does it get too much pressure?

[ed baggett]

Adam,

I think Matt gave you some good advice.

Ed

[ed baggett]

Correction:

Ed

[Steve K.]

Ditto what everyone has said.

Take a 7 1/2 foot 3 or 4 weight and a half dozen size 16 yellow stimulators and you are set. For subsurface…..Size 14 or 16 Tellico Nymphs or Prince Nymphs will do fine. Fish them one-and-a-half times the water depth….below an indicator.

The brown trout should start getting ornery at that time. Try the bigger water at sunrise or sunset with streamers.

Have fun.

[lawrence underwood]

If you are going to fish down low this time of year go EARLY in the day.  The upper elevations are fun, the bite lasts longer during the day, but that they take more work to get there.

BTW, the hole where my avatar picture (my daughter and me) was made is on the Middle Fork.

[jeff s]

From Piegon Forge, the greenbriar area is also good.

[Zach Matthews]

September is just a bit early but if you’re going to be there in the later part of the month it’ll be worth your while to check the Little River around Metcalf Bottoms for pre-spawn staging brown trout.

[marc p.]

Zach is spot on about Metcalf.

[Adam McDowell]

Thanks guys, this is more than enough to get me going. I will have to get in touch with LRO

[Chad Simcox]

Elkmont + Caddis & BHPT = a good time

Another +1 on LRO, great shop.

I have a 7’6″ 4wt that I bought for those streams but learned I liked a 9′ much better up there. If you’ve got the rooms and the rods, take ’em both.

I came up with a fly I called the Prince Telle to use up there. I combined a prince nymph with a Tellico nymph. It did great. Just tie up a prince nymph, but used yellow floss and an ostrich herl ribbed boddy instead of just the ostrich body. I put a lot of lead wrap on mine to get em down deep quickly in the pocket water.

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[rlmurphree]

All good advise. You might also check with the guys at the Orvis store in Pigeon Forge which is across the road from the Five Oaks Outlet Mall.

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