Welcome to the Fishing Report from Townsend, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. At 4:46 am, the temperature is 65.1 degrees.
Today will be partly sunny with a high temperature in the low 80’s and a low chance for thunderstorms this afternoon. Showers are likely tonight and there is a chance for thunderstorms. Showers are likely tomorrow, with a chance for thunderstorms. The high temperature tomorrow will be in the low 80’s.
Little River is flowing at 117 cubic feet per second (cfs) or 1.68 feet on the gauge. Median flow for this date is 108 cfs. The water temperature is 66.7 degrees this morning.
Some streams in the mountains are flowing at normal. Others are flowing lower than normal. Normal in August is low. Cataloochee Creek is rising this morning.
Anglers are doing well, especially for the month of August. Trout are taking dry flies and nymphs. Good dry fly choices are beetle or yellow sally stonefly imitations. Inchworm patterns like a Green Weenie are good sub-surface flies to use.
Fishing in the lowland rivers for smallmouth bass and other species is fair to good, and we should see some improvement when we get some rain tonight and tomorrow, unless we get too much. Many of these rivers that flow out of the mountains and through the valleys are flowing near normal. Fish in the deeper pools and runs using poppers, foam floating flies, streamers, nymphs or crayfish patterns.
Lake fishing will be good today if we have cloud cover. You may want to go early and fish the dimly lit banks. If it is overcast, you may be able to fish and do well all day. Try poppers or foam floating flies. If they are not working, switch to weighted streamers or swimming nymphs.
There are generation schedules you can work with on the tailwaters below some dams today. TVA will begin generating this morning at Norris and South Holston Dams. The Corps has been sluicing and generating around the clock at Wolf Creek Dam in Kentucky to lower the water level at Lake Cumberland.
Frank and I had to cancel our planned 2-day float next week on the Cumberland River, due to the anticipated discharge at Wolf Creek Dam. We would have been floating with Hagan Wonn, who is an excellent guide and a friend of ours. All three of us were looking forward to the fishing trip which was planned months ago. We had a cabin rented at Lake Cumberland State Park where we would have stayed three nights.
I will be working at the shop instead of catching big trout hand over fist.
Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.
Byron Begley
August 20, 2022
Respond to: byron@littleriveroutfitters.com
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