We are still experiencing high water conditions. That's not what you want to hear if you are a wade fisherman, but floating high water has been great. Deep nymph fishing has been the way to go for the majority of the day. Sulphurs are hatching and we are getting some dry fly fishing in. Not huge hatches, but enough to get fish rising.
May 16 2017
We are still seeing high water on the Watauga river. That's not necessarily a bad thing. The deep nymph fishing has been good. And, we are seeing more and more sulphurs. There are a couple of spots in the late afternoon where fish are rising to sulphur duns. Size 16 and 18 sparkle duns have been working well.
May 7 2017
Watauga river
We've had some really high flows over the last 2 weeks. Mid week the flows were dropped to 1600cfs. Nymphing on the 1600 flow has been good. The fish were taking small midges and nymphs. We have been seeing sulphurs hatch, but no fish rising yet. It wont be long, now that the flows are getting lower until we can start targeting fish on dries.