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Welcome to the Fishing Report from Townsend, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. At 4:48 am, the temperature is 30.2 degrees.
We have a light dusting of snow on the ground this morning. It will be cold today with a high temperature in the middle 30’s dropping to the high 20’s tonight. It will be windy at times. We may see more light snow or rain this morning and early afternoon. New snow accumulation are predicted to be less than a half inch. It will be sunny tomorrow with a high in the low 40’s.
US 441 (Newfound Gap Road) between Gatlinburg and Cherokee is closed due to snow and ice. Most other roads in the Smokies are open right now.
Little River is flowing at 215 cubic feet per second (cfs) or 2.00 feet on the gauge. Median flow for this date is 264 cfs. The water temperature is 40.1 degrees this morning.
Flows are lower than normal in most streams. The water is clear and cold. Fishing in the mountain streams is slow. Trout are lethargic due to the cold water temperatures. If you go fishing, use weighted nymph rigs and hope for the best.
Lowland river fishing is slow.
TVA and the Corps will be generating off and on today at most dams. View the generation schedule on your favorite tailwaters to see if you can work with the predicted flows. There are breaks in the generation at some dams. You might be able to squeeze in some fishing time on a tailwater today.
Business is slow at the shop, which is normal in January. We are up to our eyeballs in fly tying materials to be received ,displayed and in some cases, packaged. We are receiving a very large order from Wapsi. After that is done, I will order again tomorrow.
Our fly tying suppliers are very busy. Some people at Wapsi are working on weekends to meet demand, according to the sales manager who I talked to a week ago.
Receiving fly tying orders is very time consuming. The fly tying is the most labor intensive department in our store. We are processing and handling a lot of small items.
We enlarged our fly tying department to almost 1,000 square feet in October. That made the shopping experience much better. We have also added more choices for you.
To keep up with demand, we are now stocking deeper, meaning, more quantity of our best selling materials. For instance, we used to stock eight ¼ oz packs of peacock herl. Now, we are stocking twenty. Using data from our inventory management system, we can identify quantities sold, then adjust the desired inventory level.
From then on, that level is maintained until it is adjusted again unless a supplier is out of stock. Our suppliers are out of stock on some items. There is nothing we can do about that except keep ordering them until they are back in stock.
In most cases, we do not know if an item is unavailable until the shipment arrives.
There are three of us working in that department right now. This is fly tying season.
Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.
Byron Begley
January 16, 2021
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