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04-01-2007
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| Fly Fishing Small Streams In planning my up coming fishing trip to The Great Smoky Mountains I need to sit back and collect my thoughts on the art of fishing small tight streams. First I see fishing these streams is all about attitude, going in you know you’ll be fishing from tight quarters, brush on each side, behind you and above. So getting fly and line hung up on a branch or fallen log isn’t as frustrating or such a big deal as I hope not to make it. Fishing from these tight quarters I will not be making any long casts, which means there will be far less line to untangle. I need to always stop and look at an area before fishing it, reading small stream water is like another other, just smaller. Trout on the Beaverkill and Ken Lockwood Gorge will generally hide in similar locations, so too on small streams, just that they will be a lot smaller in length or depth. Trout holding in these areas will spook a lot quicker that you would ever expect. As evidence of the many “V’s” I have seen skittering away from me as I approach some stretch. Once on a creek in Pennsylvania I crossed the mouth of a small feeder stream, there were some brook trout holding inside the under cut bank. They saw me long before I would ever have seen them, except they went skittering away. I backed up, lowered my profile and waited for their return. It wasn’t as long as I thought it would have been. Lesson learned that day, once spooked, back up and reposition yourself and plan how you are going to cast to that spot, and above all the paitences to linger. Trout are trout and we all know you have to look for those spots that provide them with protection from predators, relief from fast flowing currents, and access to easy food. Fishing these small streams usually requires a more sensitive approach and finesse that I sometimes find not as necessary in larger streams. Like everything else experience in reading waters, your ability to make short accurate casts is more critical in these tight areas as the trout are often more easily spooked by any unnatural movement. As always, more than willing to lean more about fly fishing small brook trout streams. AK Skim
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