Welcome to the Fishing Report from Townsend, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. At 4:49 am, the temperature is 69.6 degrees.
Good Sunday morning to you! Today will be partly sunny with a high temperature in the upper 80’s and a chance for thunderstorms this afternoon. Thunderstorms are likely tonight. Rain showers are likely tomorrow and it will be cooler, around 80 degrees for the high. We could use some rain.
Little River is flowing at 74.5 cubic feet per second (cfs) or 1.48 feet on the gauge. Median flow for this date is 121 cfs. The water temperature is 70.9 degrees this morning at the low elevations USGS gauge site near Townsend.
Streams in the mountains are flowing below normal with some flowing very low. The streams are warm in the low elevations, well above the trout’s preferred range. Do these fish a favor and fish in the higher elevations where the water is cooler. Look for water temperatures in the 60’s or cooler.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is crowded. I would stay away from streams that run along roads. Choose a higher elevation backcountry stream to fish. Dry flies and nymphs will work. A dry and dropper rig is a good choice. Terrestrials and yellow sally stonefly imitations are good dry flies to use. Drop a Green Weenie off your dry fly. Fish the broken water in plunge pools and deep runs where the trout are hiding from predators.
Lowland river fishing for smallmouth bass and panfish is fair. You will find the fish in deeper pools and runs. Cast poppers or floating foam flies in shaded areas or go early and late when the sun is off the water. Nymphs, streamers and crayfish patterns should work too.
The lakes will be packed with recreation boaters. Go early. Hit the banks and cover with poppers, foam floating flies, streamers or swimming nymphs. As the sun rises seek out shaded areas to fish.
There are many favorable generation schedules planned by TVA and the Corps at their dams today. Whether you are boating or wading, you can find time to spend fishing on most tailwaters in the area.
I talked Jeremy yesterday, a very avid fly angler and tyer. He told me, about 15 years ago, when he was a teenager, he and some of his buddies fished in the Smokies, and stopped by the shop afterwards. There, they met me and recounted their fishing day. The next morning I wrote about our conversation in the fishing report. They read what I wrote and knew it was them I was talking about. Now, I’m doing it again.
I’m excited! I am going to be off from work today. Paula and I will drive the Gator to the garden early this morning to water the plants. We use city water, but the chlorine is filtered out by a contraption mounted to the outside wall of the boat house. June has been dry. She is watering almost every day.
Her garden is doing great. The garden is entirely raised beds and it has been expanded significantly over the years. We sit in the garden almost every evening and watch the mountains dim before dark.
We are also going to install a new larger and more powerful grow light to increase production at the “salad bar” in the basement today. She is growing salad greens downstairs because those are cool weather plants and it is definitely not cool outside. This will be a year-round inside garden that may be expanded in the future if everything works as planned. Our basement is temperature controlled by HVAC. The lighting is controlled by a timer.
Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.
Byron Begley
June 26, 2022
NOTICE: FLY TYERS WEEKEND SCHEDULED ON NOVEMBER 5TH AND 6TH HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES.
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