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Welcome to the Fishing Report from Townsend, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. At 4:46 am, the temperature is 59.4 degrees.
This is going to be another beautiful day. It will be partly sunny with a high temperature in the low 80’s. Tomorrow will be sunny with a high in the middle 80’s.
Little River is flowing at 222 cubic feet per second (cfs) or 2.06 feet on the gauge. Median flow for this date is 159 cfs. The water temperature is 61.9 degrees.
Streams in the Smokies and surrounding mountain areas are flowing higher than median flow but at very favorable levels for fishing. Most anglers would consider Little River to be flowing perfectly.
Fishing for trout in the mountains is very good. The fish are taking dry flies and nymphs. One very effective combination is a yellow sally stonefly dry with a Green Weenie dropper. You could also fish with a weighted Green Weenie alone and do well. Using a beetle pattern for your dry is another good option.
Fishing for stocked trout is good in the rivers flowing out of the mountains. Nymphs, squirmy worms, small streamers and midge pupa will work for you. There are a lot of swimmers and tubers in some of these rivers. It will be a good idea to go early for that reason.
Conditions are ideal for smallmouth bass, rock bass (redeye) and panfish fishing in the lowland rivers. I would go early and use foam floating flies. However, nymphs, streamers, crayfish patterns and poppers will work well for you too.
I like foam floating flies. They land on the water softly, like a real terrestrial insect would. They float well. They are easy to tie. They look like a big juicy bug to the fish.
If you are going lake fishing today, go early and fish until the sun rises high. Find shaded banks to fish as the sun rises. It may be overcast, which is a great benefit for those of us fishing in shallow water. Winds should be light today. Recreation boat traffic will be heavy.
I am hearing some really good tailwater fishing stories. One came to me from a customer yesterday who fished with guide David Knapp on the Caney Fork River. They had an awesome day. And, there are many other recounts from anglers fishing on the tailwaters. Flows have been very angler friendly this Spring.
If that is what you plan to do today, you have many tailwater fishing choices. You will need to plan carefully to work with some of the generation schedules. Visit the TVA website from the links below to see what your options are.
Will Davis came by the shop yesterday and we talked for a while. Will is going to Oregon for the Summer, to stay with some friends in Bend. Then, he will be a freshman in college starting in August here in east Tennessee.
Will and I worked together for 18 months, organizing and developing ways to micro manage the fly tying department. Now, the department is on auto-pilot, sort of.
I knew from the beginning, Will would be a hard working person. We started with a written plan. We accomplished our goals. I could not have done it alone. Our efforts paid off and we are both proud. Customers are happy about what we have done too. In May, the fly tying department was up almost 60% from the same month last year. I will eventually hire someone to work with me in that department, but for a while, I am going to maintain it alone.
Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.
Byron Begley
June 5, 2022
Respond to: byron@littleriveroutfitters.com
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