| Tennessee Overhill Fishing Report - April 2009 |
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| Wednesday, 08 April 2009 | |
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We are experiencing some of the best overall spring fly fishing that we have in over two years in our Tn./Ga. area. Cold winter temperatures and adequate moisture have all of the streams we fish in good shape. The near term forecast is for a typical spring weather pattern which includes weekly showers to add to our water table. Bring your waders and jacket and let’s go trout fishing. Hiwassee River - Definitely the best we have seen in a while. Fish throughout the river. Mostly average rainbows with high fish counts. Some 14” -16” fish being caught in the quality zone. Mid April should see the beginning of our dry fly fishing as the water warms just a little. Hendricksons and caddis should start this month. Water flows have been great and look great for April. Most weekday flows right now give us one turbine which we can drift the upper river on. Fish numbers have been high on this float. We have also had good floats on the middle and lower section.Toccoa River – Also fishing great for us. Our larger fish are coming from here now. Two new members of the 20 inch club so far with a 22” rainbow and a 21” brown trout. The first caddis came early in February. We are currently nymphing and streamer fishing. Waiting on the Hendricksons to arrive. Stream flows are the best in a while. Holston River - Our pick right now for a Knoxville area tailwater float trip. Flows are consistent daily for floating all three river sections. Good fish counts with the average fish being strong, solid, with shoulders. We are expecting to break the 20 inch mark here anytime. We will start seeing good insect activity here in April also. Tellico River - Our wild trout, brook trout, wade fishing paradise is running the best we have seen. Again, adequate rainfall makes a huge difference in our area streams. April will provide the slightly warmer water temps needed to bring out the smorgasboard of bugs, drakes included. We are excited about the off road ban on the upper river. Cumberland River - Weekly rainfall has kept the generation level from Wolf creek too high for fly fishing. Right now, it looks like May before we will begin to fish the Cumberland consistently. Dane Law, Southeastern Anglers – 423-338-7368, © 770-655-9210. |
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