Fishing Report
We've been on the water a lot these past few days. Good numbers of fish coming to the net. We've had good flows for the last week and the fish are responding well. Yesterday the majority of our fish came on dry flies (Mike's Magic Beetle). Today almost all of them were on nymphs. It's day to day what we are seeing. But the bottom line is the fishing is great. Give us a call if you would like to book a trip
The Watauga river has been fishing great! Lots of fish coming to hand. Most of our fishing has been nymphing. We are seeing a few sulphurs here and there, and fish are rising to them. No big hatches, but enough to get a few fish rising and get some dry fly fishing in.
After over a month of high water we are finally seeing some low water flows on the Watauga river, and the fish are chewing! We caught good numbers of fish nymphing as well as on dries today. High water fishing has been good, but it was a welcomed change to fish low water.
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.
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.
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.
