Some Smokies Help from you Gurus
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Greetings All,
As some of you may know, this western boy is currently on an around the country trip with my wife, daughter, dog, and RV.
Gentlemen,
Thanks very much for the info, we are shoving off from Nashville to the Smokies on Saturday, I can’t wait.
I’ve stayed in the Elkmont campground and really enjoyed it. If you get the right site, you can wake up in the morning, roll out of you sleeping bag and step into the creek to fish.
I was down about three weeks ago and the fishing was great. Abrams Creek in Cades Cove was by far the best with march browns, Quill Gordons, caddis and Green Drakes coming off.
None of the high-altitude streams were fishing well at all. We had our best luck at Abrams, then Tremont and on Elkmont. Almost all of our fish were caught on some sort of size 14 or 12 parachute pattern, either a p-Adams or a p-March Brown. I caught a few on a bead head PT nymph also.
There’s been a lot of rain and if you go Saturday, you’re gonna get more.
Check out Little River Outfitters fishing report at
http://littleriveroutfitters.com/pages/fishing/report.htm
There is also a big event going on this weekend. They are opening an unfinished stretch of the Foothills Parkway which is supposed to have some beautiful views and expected to draw 14,000 visitors this weekend.If you want to fish the Park, absolutely NO MATTER WHAT, do not under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES stay in Pigeon Forge or Sevierville.
I went to the GSMNP a few weeks ago for a vacation. We stayed on the Sevierville side of Pigeon Forge, intending to drive back and forth to the Park to fish.
Unfortunately, Pigeon Forge was hosting a gigantic car show for the entire weekend, and the entire town was gridlocked traffic from sunup until nearly midnight for the whole time I was there. Even the back roads were totally congested.
It took nearly THREE HOURS to drive the 14 miles between Pigeon Forge and the Park – each way!!! I had my wife and kids along, and we had planned on just meeting around lunch time each day to swap our single vehicle out so I could fish and she could shop and do other stuff. Due to the traffic, that plan meant that I only got to fish about 2.5 hours total for the entire vacation, instead of the 2.5 days I had planned.
I wish someone had warned me about the ridiculous traffic before I went. My hard-earned vacation was pretty much wasted as a result. If I ever go back there, the closest I’ll get is to stay in a hotel on the side of Gatlinburg closest to the Park.
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If you do find yourself in the traffic jam called Pigeon Forge, take Wears Valley Road about mid way through town over to Townsend.
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