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Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 05-19-2013, 09:29 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 759
Posted By Don Kirk
Slow but fun

The FFF deal in western NC was nice. The turn out was not stellar, but the Ramsey Centers at the college is a first class venue. I think they are having it there again next year. I was pleased to see...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 05-09-2013, 01:55 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 759
Posted By Don Kirk
FFF Cullowhee next week

We're off to the FFF shindig in Cullowhee next weekend. It looks like Marvin Cash and Co. with the NC FFF have put together an great get together. We’re going to be there. I believe I had one seminar...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 05-05-2013, 02:26 PM
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Views: 219
Posted By Don Kirk
Bristol report

Jeff & I spent yesterday in Bristol at the speedway where the first Thunder Valley Wine and Fly Festival was held. A couple of weeks ago we did the VA Wine and Fly Festival in Wayneboro, so it was...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 05-02-2013, 11:49 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 178
Posted By Don Kirk
Bristol Bound

Bright and early tomorrow morning the Southern Trout Roadshow & Menagerie hits the road again, this time to go to Bristol's Thunder Valley Fly & Wine Festival. Jeff, me and three-leg cat will be...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 04-23-2013, 06:49 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 281
Posted By Don Kirk
VA Fest Report

Got home yesterday from Waynesboro, VA and the VA Fly & Wine Festival there last weekend. They say its now the biggest fly fishing event in the East. Fishing on the South River was decent despite...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 04-18-2013, 08:21 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 605
Posted By Don Kirk
Big Creek Always Rough

Big Creeks is tough going both in terms of getting around on it, and catching fish. I used to fish it a lot in the 1960s and 1970s. Back then the road was open all the way to Walnut Bottoms. We'd...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 04-13-2013, 08:02 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 768
Posted By Don Kirk
Could be...

I had lunch Thursday with Greg Ward in Chinese dive in Sevierville that wafted with the aroma of sauté dog. Any who, he told me about him releasing a few thousand big trout in Gatlinburg prior his...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 04-05-2013, 12:52 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,435
Posted By Don Kirk
Wet Wading Perils

For years we wet waded year round, but then moved to wet wading if we could stand the cold and the water, as moving upstream and casting while jogging is tough in waders. That was a long time ago......
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 04-03-2013, 04:32 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 498
Posted By Don Kirk
April/May Southern Trout Magazine up

The April/May issue of Southern Trout Magazine released today. It marks one year of publication. I personally invite everyone to take a look at it and tell us what you think.

Most one year olds...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 03-31-2013, 05:11 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 868
Posted By Don Kirk
New World Record Brown Trout????

“Very ugly. Small head, big belly. Just amazing,” is how angler Otwin Kandolf described the monster brown trout that many in New Zealand are referring to as the “submarine trout.”

Otwin caught...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 03-29-2013, 02:06 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 442
Posted By Don Kirk
Joe fred where are you?

Joe,
I have been trying to contact you. Need to talk. Please call me at 205-665-2658, or email me your number at don@southerntrout.com (don@southerntrout.com)

I look forward to talking.
dk
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 03-23-2013, 10:10 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 923
Posted By Don Kirk
Things look good

Fred,
Please know that I am greatly in favor of your success with your kiosk idea and your maps, as I regard both as lovely. As far as the pending demise of trout fishing in the South, I’m of the...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 03-13-2013, 09:38 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 923
Posted By Don Kirk
Is Monetizing possible?

Fred,
How do you propose to monetize the project? Five years ago before we sold our CDL recruiting web sites we tried putting Kiosks in a half dozen Love and Pilot truck stops. Access was free to...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 03-07-2013, 08:43 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 825
Posted By Don Kirk
Thanks for the endorsement

Jack,
My presentations are rarely talk about how I fish, but rather how the old timers did it. By and large, today's young fellows are considerably more skilled than we were 40 years ago. I do these...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 02-22-2013, 11:08 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 856
Posted By Don Kirk
Southern Trout Milestone Thank You

Southern Trout hit a big milestone this week. We are quite optimistic that we will achieve our goals in May when the publication is one year old. So far in February we have had over 4,500 unique...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 02-11-2013, 08:49 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 296
Posted By Don Kirk
Winston-Salem Fly Fishing Show Report

Our trip to the Fly Fishing Show in Winston-Salem was big fun. We signed up over 400 new subscribers to Southern Trout. While there was not a lot of participation from Tennessee, it was a well...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 02-11-2013, 08:29 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,437
Posted By Don Kirk
porker problems...

I got involve with the NPS on pigs back in the early 1970s when Dr. Susan Braxton was compiling early data on these exotics. She told me then at you could never find a more perfect habitat for...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 02-06-2013, 10:27 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,437
Posted By Don Kirk
They're coming...

If making excuses for the instinctive ways of apex predators and lard-butt pizza eaters is comforting to you, then you will love the eminent arrival of wolves here in the not so distant future. The...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 02-05-2013, 04:10 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,437
Posted By Don Kirk
Otter Destruction & more...

We’re headed east this weekend to the Fly Fishing Show in Winston-Salem, NC. Long 7-hour drive from the bowels of Bamaland. I plan to attach my fly vise to the steering wheel to help keep my hands...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 01-28-2013, 05:23 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 825
Posted By Don Kirk
Joe-Absolutely

Joe,
I never cease to be amazed at the love so many people have for the Smokies and for fishing the waters there. I had about a half dozen people talk to me about your new maps. They marveled at the...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 01-28-2013, 07:48 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 825
Posted By Don Kirk
Kentuckiana Fly Show report

Ice on the roads Friday was nearly gone by the time we got to Louisville. Brown Hotel still had enough cookies that we avoided buying supper and were able to focus on quality time in the Bourbon...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 01-23-2013, 12:12 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 3,632
Posted By Don Kirk
Could be worse...

Over the years I have dealt with the NPS on everything from closing off Walnut Bottoms and then closing off access to the Abrams Falls Trail parking area on Saturday morning to vehicle access...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 01-20-2013, 09:00 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 677
Posted By Don Kirk
New Book Just Released

My newest book, Flyfisher's Guide to Tennessee, was released Friday on Kindle form. The hard copy version is due here this week, hopefully in time for me to carry a few copies to hawk next weekend at...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 01-18-2013, 03:25 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 3,219
Posted By Don Kirk
Zip line needed for summer fishing access

I’m drawing on memory, so I may not have it exactly correct, but as I recall US 441 is special in that when the national park was created, the charter for the park contained specific provisions that...
Forum: Smoky Mountain Fishing 01-16-2013, 07:45 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 3,219
Posted By Don Kirk
I'd love to talk about it

Several years ago when the FFF had it’s first conclave in Gatlinburg, I was the opening speaker. I made the comment that when Little River had a 14”size limit (prior to 1975), that most of the trout...
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