20 minutes of action, then it was over

[duckypaddler]

I had a wonderful time in the Smokies lately. Two weekends ago, NDuncan & I headed to Forney for an overnighter at campsite 69. Wednesday Freddie and I got to fish above Elkmont, and last weekend I got to take the family to Smokemont for the boys first overnighter at Smokemont. While some say to stay away this time of year, I can never get enough of the Smokies and find myself coming back again and again:biggrin:

I've been trying to get more reports up, but my twins seem to always have other plans:rolleyes:

After realizing the rains on Tuesday didn't really amount to anything we were just looking for a place that had some water to catch a few trout.
On the drive up we stopped at the most popular pool in the Smokies, and while we didn't see Lynn's 30 incher, we did see many fish. I saw 11 at one time, with one easily over 20 inches (and those were the ones we COULD see:eek:). We didn't even try to tempt these guys and headed up the trail to try and catch a few

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Quickly realized it wasn't our territory and we could just visit.

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Hit the river and immediately the fishing was good:smile:

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For the next 20 minutes it was on! There was a point I caught 3 fish within 3 casts:biggrin:

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Some were hitting the dry and some were hitting the dropper


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I missed two nice fish, one of which was a beautiful Brown who taunted me as he flashed those polka dots at me. Neither of the big fish ever came back, even to look, after the first cast.

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Here Freddie works a nice run


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To be continued

[duckypaddler]

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And then nothing but some beautiful screnery, but the fish stopped biting:eek:

So home we went to live to fish another day

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[David Knapp]

Great fish and nice pictures! I love that section of river when I want some fast paced action. You ever see any wet footprints or anything to explain the fish shutting down? I always get suspicious when fishing turns off that abruptly...

[Mac]

Thanks for posting the report James, and your pictures are excellent. Wish i was out there with all the tree changing colors. Like you i can never get enough.

Keep them coming. ;)