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Winter Thaw in the Smokies | R and R Fly Fishing This week has seen a dramatic warm up from the deep freeze we experienced for all of January. Last month was well below average and amounted to one of the longer stretches we’ve ever had without being...

A drastic weather swing in the Smokies has us fishing with our shirt sleeves rolled up. All the details from the stream in our latest fishing report:
randrflyfishing.com/2025/02/05/w...

Scene on Smoky Mountain streams lately

Smoky Mountain streams have been iced up lately! Looking forward to milder conditions on the way this week

Frigid stream conditions in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

New Years Day walk up a local brook trout stream

A beautiful and mild mid-winter day on the stream in the Great Smoky Mountains

Great afternoon on the stream in the Smokies

Got out for a hike in the Smokies on the shortest day of the year. Longer days are on the way!

Amen! Did the exact same thing here

Breathing in that Smoky Mountain goodness

Ian Rutter working on art work featuring a wild turkey

Spending these cold days in the art studio instead of on the stream lately

It happens! Sounds like you saw one of the local bears in Gatlinburg. We live in a more rural area but have bears around the house from about mid March thru early December

That's a particularly red striped rainbow trout for the Smokies! Most usually have a blend of purple, pink and even yellow in the mix

Good to see streams in the Smokies running full again

“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains...In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
Cormac McCarthy, “The Road” / #watercolor #pintura #aquarelle #flyfishing #Watercolorwes #boonenc beartrailart.com

Fandamntastic!

Why Everything You Know About Bluegill Management is Wrong Every angler knows that if you don’t remove enough bluegills from a pond, they’ll overpopulate and become stunted. But new research says that idea is usually wrong, and the opposite may be true.

I've often heard anglers say that bluegills get stunted if you don't harvest enough. It turns out, the opposite is true. You can't harvest your way to big bluegills.

#25DaysofFishmas

I've donated this original watercolor to the annual online auction to benefit fisheries in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Link to bid on this and other cool stuff:
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Notorious for our spot burning 😅

The end of the bulk of our guide season. Probably a few afternoon half day trips from now through February if conditions permit, but we resume our full day schedules in March.

But that means we finally get some personal fishing in now!

Beautiful wild rainbow trout caught and released on dry fly today in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Beautiful wild Smoky Mountain brown trout caught and released on our home water.

Thanks!👊✌️

Original watercolor of a rising brook trout, "Appalachian Native Rising", Ian donated for storm relief in East Tennessee.

Wild Smoky Mountain brown trout on a dry fly

Black bear tracks in the Great Smoky Mountains

Fall Fishing Plus News About Effects from Flooding | R and R Fly Fishing It’s been an exceptionally busy fall season for us guiding fly fishers here in the Smokies. It’s hard for us to believe just how quickly things have moved. It seems like only a few weeks ago we were h...

Our latest Smoky Mountain fly fishing report
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