Smoky Mountain Lakes

Smoky Mountain Lakes near Bryson City, NC offers many trout fishing opportunities. Learn loch style techniques for catching trout in the beautiful Smokies!

The lake fishing for trout in Western NC is epic during the Winter months. Cooler water temps on the lakes keep trout active for most of the Winter!

Typical instruction includes casting, rigging, reading riseforms, and line retrievals. The challenges of lake fishing are many but well worth the effort! The average trout sizes are much larger than typical river fish.

The fly patterns are also quite a bit different than those used for river and stream fishing. Typical patterns include wets, lures, blobs, and boobies.

The fly lines typical for lake fishing include many combinations of line densities. We typically carry a dozen seven weight fly lines with all different densities.

The midge tips, sweeps, floating, glass, and 1-9 density sinking lines are quite common for covering most all of the conditions encountered trout fishing.