Hello, absolutely love the video! I shot you a DM on IG with a few questions about your trip as in the process of booking something very similar. Not looking for fishing info, but rather logistics and area info. If you have a chance please let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
Cody you gave me so much great info in the shop the other day. One tip from a bad Indiana carp guy is to leave your cicada sit. Almost a dead drift. They tend to just float not a lot of movement. I’ve had my best smallie on a cicada that sat for 45 seconds after splash down.
Fished the bridge in May (trout festival), got a nice buck on a bugger. Lots of rain, chocolate water. Great fishery, looking forward to citigo and upper section of the tellico.
Any information on rod weight and line type to better fish this type streams would be greatly appreciated. I’ve fly fished around 40 years but not for trout and these conditions. Thanks for the advice.
There's a couple of different ways you can approach it. If you want to tightline nymph like we were in the video, I'd recommend a longer rod to get better reach. I was fishing a 10ft 2wt. If you wanted to mostly fish dry fly and dropper, for a stream this size I prefer a 8'6" 4wt.
Yes it is! It's the Cobalt 9' 8wt. I have the Cobalt in both 7wt and 8wt and love them both. We carry them at the shop and they're a great rod for the money. Good mix of up close accuracy with the ability to make longer casts so it works very well for fly fishing for carp.
Awesome video. Gonna try to get into some of those TN bonefish this weekend 🤞🏼 Can you tell me about your boat? I’m ready to upgrade from the Nucanoe Frontier 😂
It's a 2005 Alumacraft 1650MV with a Tohatsu 50hp. I basically bought it as just the hull and outboard and rewired the whole thing and added the floor and eva foam decking that I picked up from Amazon. It's wide and stable and drafts 6" of water or less so can be push poled through shallow water. It's a great setup for the lakes and I've also taken it to the Everglades for some inshore fishing.
I’ve never fly fished on warmer water but I may give it a shot on a river here in Georgia. Nice video btw!! Btw you or one of your guides may have to teach me a little about streamer fishing. I’m not sure if I just didn’t cover enough water or what but yeah. I skipped some spots because I assumed they wouldn’t hold a big brown but maybe I was reading the water wrong. I was throwing bigger flies though just chasing after a trophy fish. I seen one big brown give a chase after my streamer but that was it. Finding big fish is a challenge, still had fun being on the water up in the mountain though.
I know streamer fishing is not usually a game of numbers, I was kind of targeting for a bigger fish but there’s definitely some things I could be taught probably lol.
The Goldie there was first created in West Virginia. That strain was developed in the Petersburg West Virginia hatchery and now they have been sold to places all over the country and raised and stocked . Also renamed in those places that trout has the most names of any freshwater fish now I do believe 😂 but the original name is the golden trout /goldie is what they named the trout when it was first bred. That’s why West Virginia now has the Gold rush every spring . They stock 60-70 select places around the state with a stocking of all Goldies during the gold rush 👍
I enjoy that area, especially the North River CG and Jake Best on the Citico. Thanks for a nice video that's getting me fired up for my Spring Pilgrimmage to the CNF and the Smokies.
Imagine running a mile and then someone duck tapes your mouth and nose so you can't breathe until they get a few pictures. You should pinch your barbs and release them asap. Your photogaphy is outstanding !
Looks like you had a great trip. I use to always have a saltwater reel set up with right hand retrieve. Between casting and fighting fish all day with the same arm it would become a noodle. It really helped me to cast with one arm and fight with the other. I’m itching for another trip now.
Loved the video! Was there New Years Eve last and caught some rainbow on dries! Is the Tellico requiring the daily permit now or are we good until March or April? Well Done!!
We have a friend who fished the river frequently who landed a wild bow that was over 18". Which is wild to think about since most wild bows in the watershed are from 6-10" but the potential is there for bigger fish!
Thanks for my Euro setup a couple weeks back man! The leader was very awesome. I ended up only catching a couple of Fish Friday, but Saturday I did a lot better, biggest fish was a brown 14-15 inches. I caught more browns than rainbows. That was my first time euro nymphing and I’m hooked!
