Smoky Mountains Fly Selection
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I just received an order for a bunch of name specific flies for someone going to the Smokies in about a month specifically Cherokee Indian Reservation.
That list is from Ian Rutter’s Smokies book.
My experience in the Smokies has been to use Thunderheads, Royal and Tennessee Wulffs, orange and yellow Stimulators for dries. Use Prince’s, Tellico’s, Copper Johns (red, brown, green) for nymphs. Also don’t forget to use some size 2, 4, and 6 buggers in black, olive and rust.
Just my $.02
My normal Smokies rig is a 14 Stimulator or EHC with a 14 or 16 Pheasant Tail, Copper John, or Tellico nymph.
If this person is going to the Smokies, in the later part of Spring or later, I would give them a good selection of parachute ants.
Size 14 parachute Adams is always a great fly in the Smokies. You could fish there with that and a bh pheasant tail all season long.
I used to tie a pattern for the smokies that I called the Prince Telli that was, as you can guess, a mash up of a Prince Nymph and a Tellico Nymph. I used black hackle tips for the tail, yellow floss thorax with peacock hurl ribbing, Turkey tail fibers for shell back, white goose biots for wings (like a prince nymph), and a brown hackle collar.
I’d also have ants, parachute adams, humpies, green weenies, BHPT, hoppers, stimulators, copper johns, caddis nymph, royal trude, royal coachman, stone fly nymphs… The nice thing about fishing the smokies is you can get away with big flies (size 12/14/16).
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