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Welcome to the Fishing Report from Townsend, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. At 4:45 am, the temperature is 59.5 degrees.
After a nice cool morning, today will be mostly sunny and warm with low humidity. The high temperature will be in the low 80’s. Tomorrow will be another nice day. It will be sunny with a high in the middle 80’s. This is going be a beautiful weekend.
Little River is flowing at 260 cubic feet per second (cfs) or 2.17 feet on the gauge. Median flow for this date is 167 cfs. The water temperature is 61.5 degrees this morning.
Stream flows in the Smokies look good. They are all flowing higher than normal but most are at good fishing levels.
Fishing is good. Trout are taking dry flies and nymphs. Their metabolism is in high gear. The trout are looking for food. An excellent dry and dropper combination is a yellow sally stonefly pattern (dry fly) with a Green Weenie dropper. You may also want to use weighted nymph rigs. Trout are eating terrestrial insects, such as beetles, inchworms or ants. More important than fly choice is getting a good drift. This will be a good fishing day in the mountains.
Fishing for stocked trout in the rivers flowing out of the mountains is good. Use nymphs, squirmy worms, midge pupa or small streamers. These rivers are popular for tubers and swimmers right now. You may want to go early or late to fish.
The lowland free flowing rivers are fishing well for smallmouth bass and panfish. Streamers, crayfish patterns, poppers or foam floating flies are all working.
This will be a fair to good lake fishing day if you go early and fish through mid-morning. There will be chop on the water at times, with winds expected to top out at ten miles per hour. There will be many pleasure boaters on the water and at the ramps.
Launch at daybreak and fish the banks with streamers, swimming nymphs, poppers and foam floating flies. As the sun rises, fish the shaded banks.
If you are planning to fish on a tailwater today, you have many options. There will be long pauses in the generation with pulsing at times at most dams. TVA is still spilling and generating constantly at Douglas Dam as they are lowering the lake level to Summer pool. They are getting close to that goal.
Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.
Byron Begley
June 4, 2022
Respond to: byron@littleriveroutfitters.com
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