May 31, 2017

As we close out May we experienced a large amount of rain over the past week to ten days with some of us even experiencing some damaging wind with wide spread power outages.  Stream levels rose and since then have receded to good levels.

We are in the last week of Delayed Harvest fishing which wraps up Friday.  Duke is running the West Fork on a regular schedule with the East Fork mixed in so watch water flow rates before entering the river.  The Tuck has been productive on a wide variety of flies.  Girdle bugs are the favorite of many anglers but don't be afraid to think outside the fly box when it comes to selecting a fly.  Going different may the ticket!

The GSMNP has been fishing well!  You can experience some good dry fly action this time of the year and you can take trout all day!  You can expect to see Yellow Sallies fluttering throughout the air dancing as they come to adulthood.  Pheasant Tails dropped behind your favorite spring dry fly can be very productive.  Rubber legged stones are producing some good trout for the anglers that are primary nymph fishermen.

Tight Lines!