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Welcome to the Fishing Report from Townsend, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. At 4:57 am, the temperature is 25.5 degrees.
Warm air is moving into the Tennessee Valley today and dysu through the week. It will be sunny and warm every day except for a chance for rain Saturday afternoon and evening. High temperatures will be in the mid-50’s today warming to the low 60’s Thursday through Saturday. Lows at night will be in the upper 30’s to low 40’s.
Little River is flowing at 246 cubic feet per second (cfs) or 2.17 feet on the gauge. Median flow for this date is 231 cfs. The water temperature is 38.8 degrees this morning.
Other streams in the Smokies that have USGS gauge sites are flowing slightly higher than normal. Water temperatures are cold and falling.
What we will look forward to over the next few days is warmer water. Fishing will improve every day through the weekend. I cannot guess how warm the streams will become but I am hoping for 50 degrees. That would be a game changer and fishing would be much better in the Smokies. We will have to see what happens.
Nymphs will work best for you today. I would wait a while before going when the water temperature has bottomed out and has begun to warm.
Lowland river fishing will be slow today. You may catch stocked trout in some of these rivers. I would use nymphs or streamers.
There are some breaks in the generation schedules at TVA and Corps of Engineers dams today. I did not see many wade fishing opportunities on the tailwaters but I didn’t view every page. Take a look at the schedules at Center Hill Dam, Norris Dam and South Holston Dam. Maybe you can work with those at times during the day. If you are boating you have more options.
Lake fishing conditions are not bad but they are not great either. It may be breezy at times today but winds should be calm most of the week beginning tomorrow. Surface temperatures will warm over the next few days. Fishing may be fair at best. I would use heavily weighted streamers, either Wooly Buggers or threadfin shad patterns. You can vary your retrieve to see what works. I think slow is the way to go.
Paula and I forgot to bring in our bird feeders night before last and a bear tore them down. Two were damaged and two are missing. The brackets that hold two feeders were ripped off the both 4 x 4 posts. Paula ordered two replacement feeders from Ace Hardware yesterday and re-attached the brackets. She repaired the two remaining feeders.
We have not seen a bear at our house for two or three weeks but there is one out there, somewhere.
Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.
Byron Begley
December 9, 2020
Buy a Walter Babb made bamboo fly rod or his beautiful 10- dozen flies for charity.
“Due to Covid-19, there will not be a Needy Family Fund Auction this year. I made a rod and tied some flies for the Auction this Spring, so I will be selling them and the proceeds will go to the Needy Family Fund.
Th rod is an 8’ 0” 2 piece 6-weight Stan’s Blackfoot, a great taper from Stan Smartt. This is a single tip rod. The price is $850 plus sales tax.
There is also a box of 10 dozen of my favorite nymphs and wet flies. The price is $253.95 plus sales tax if you are a Tennessee resident.
If interested, call Walter Babb at 423-337-6772. I have many other rods, in case someone wants a rod for lighter lines or a shorter small stream type rod.”
Walter
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