The Great Smoky Mountains National Park

I had the pleasure of doing some Fall camping in the Smoky Mountains this past weekend, 4 days 3 nights at Elkmont Campground. The Little River runs through the campground and is teaming with wild rainbow, brown, and, in the upper reaches, brook trout. I was looking forward to spending a good amount of time [...]

2018 Cheeky Schoolie Tournament

  I have to hand it to Cheeky Fishing. They threw together a great weekend. I had a number of spin anglers on the water say to me that weekend "What's going on? I've never seen so many people fly fishing here before." The answer was the Cheeky Schoolie Tournament, the world's largest fly fishing [...]

Fly fishing the Farmington River, CT.

The sound of water tumbling over rocks as it sweeps past your legs, birds chirping in the trees and flying low across the river, picking mayflies out of the air, and the occasional beaver or otter swimming at the water's edge building their home, those are the sights and sounds I long for this time [...]