Warm Water Fix

My son and I decided to beat the heat with a little warm water fishing in a local stream. We also mixed in a lot of swimming and splashing as well. We caught mostly sunfish and an occasional red eye. There is nothing better than a six year old, a three weight, and willing blue gill!

Small Stream Browns

With my brother in from Montana, we just had to hit one of my favorite small streams. With the recent rains the water levels were close to normal and we caught a couple of nice browns. The go to flies were an elk haired caddis and cricket imitation.

TN Tailwaters

My brother was in from Montana so we hit the Watauga and South Holston rivers in TN. We got on the water about 8:30 at the Watauga. We fished for two hours with nothing to show for our efforts. No fish rising and nothing on nymphs. Being a weekday, we did have the river to ourselves. After some exploring we headed off to the South Holston.
We arrived at the Weir parking area with only a few picknickers and 1 other fisherman in the stretch we wanted to fish. We rigged up with sulfur comparaduns (16) and picked up fish almost immediately. The fish were feeding aggressively and we brought rainbow after rainbow to hand. It seems the good folks at the TWRC had paid a visit with the stocking truck. We did manage to pick up a few wild browns but none of significant size. The rainbows ranged from 10-16 inches. We stopped when the generation started at 1 PM. We lost count but figure at least 30 fish apiece.