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Welcome to the Fishing Report from Townsend, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. At 4:43 am, the temperature is 67.6 degrees.
The high temperature in Townsend reached 95.2 degrees yesterday.
Today should be a little cooler, with a high around 90 degrees, dropping to the upper 60’s tonight. There is a 50% chance for thunderstorms today.
Tomorrow and Sunday will be sunny and cooler. Expect high temperatures in the low 80’s with lows at night in the 50’s.
Little River is flowing at 105 cubic feet per second (cfs) or 1.63 feet on the gauge. Median flow for this date is 157 cfs. The water temperature is 71.8 degrees at the low elevation gauge site near Townsend. Yesterday, the high temperature in the river at the gauge site reached almost 76 degrees.
Some streams in the mountains are flowing at or slightly above normal. Others are flowing below normal. Little River is flowing low.
Water temperatures are very warm in the low elevations and that will continue today. Catching and releasing a trout in water this warm could be lethal to the fish. Fishing should be done in the higher elevations, where the water temperature tops out in the 60’s.
Trout will take dry flies or nymphs.
Fly fishing is good in some lowland rivers for smallmouth bass, rock bass and panfish. Fish the pools and runs with poppers, foam floating flies, nymphs, streamers or crayfish patterns. Fishing will be best early or late.
If you plan to fish on the lakes, go early or late when the sun is off the water. Cast to the shaded banks with poppers, foam floating flies, swimming nymphs or streamers. Winds will be out of the west at 5 to 10 miles per hour. Watch for approaching thunderstorms.
Fishing on a tailwater is a good option today. There are generation schedules you can work with at some dams. Visit the TVA website from the links below to see what your tailwater fishing opportunities are.
My close friends Frank and Mouse fished on the Cumberland River Tailwater below Wolf Creek Dam earlier this week with guide Hagan Wonn. They did well. I saw photos of their two largest trout. They were huge rainbows. They were using small nymphs and bead head midges fished under strike indicators.
We are all looking forward to a much cooler weekend. I’m sure the trout are too.
Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.
Byron Begley
June 17, 2022
Respond to: byron@littleriveroutfitters.com
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