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Welcome to the Fishing Report from Townsend, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. At 4:41 am, the temperature is 28.4 degrees.
It will be partly sunny today and warmer, with a high in the low 50’s and a low tonight around 30 degrees. Tomorrow will be partly sunny with a high in the middle 40’s.
Little River is flowing at 567 cubic feet per second (cfs) or 2.82 feet on the gauge. Median flow for this date is 309 cfs. The water temperature is 42.1 degrees this morning at the low elevation USGS gauge site near Townsend.
Most streams on the west side of the Smokies are flowing higher than normal but they are receding. Streams on the east side of the Park are flowing closer to normal. Water temperatures are cold in the low elevations and colder higher in the mountains.
If you go fishing today, wait a while to give the streams a chance to warm some and fish in the low elevations. Weighted nymph rigs are probably your best option. Some streams are still swift, so be careful wading.
Lowland river fishing for smallmouth bass will be slow. You might catch stocked trout on nymphs, egg patterns, squirmy worms or mop flies.
Angler friendly generation schedules at the dams and tailwaters are rare today. TVA and the Corps will be generating at most dams with only short breaks. I did see one exception and there may be more so visit the TVA website to see what tailwater fishing options you have. If you are boating, you will have more.
Let’s face it. This is January, not the best time of the year to be fishing, especially in the freestone rivers and streams. Tailwater fishing is better if you can find a good generation schedule.
Time well spent now is preparing for Spring fishing. Some of our customers tie flies and they are doing that now. Still, the majority of our customers do not tie flies. There are more anglers who have taken up fly tying during the past two years. Everyone in the fly fishing industry knows it. That somewhat accounts for the scarcity of some fly tying materials.
We have a few materials in the department that have been out of stock for two years. As a total, we are out of stock on about 5% of our inventory in the fly tying department. I update that list every morning, and we remove items from the list as they arrive from our suppliers.
To deal with the shortage, Will and I are ordering more frequently, sometimes more than once a week from our larger suppliers. We have several orders arriving today and tomorrow. Two arrived yesterday.
We track that too. Our order list is updated almost every day or more often, with the expected arrival dates based on the tracking information supplied by the U.S. Post Office, FedEx and UPS. The list is hanging in plain view, to help us plan our work load each day.
Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.
Byron Begley
January 13, 2022
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