Having been in the Smoky Mountains outside Knoxville, Tennessee the past few days on business, I had the opportunity yesterday afternoon to go fly fishing. I've always loved the cold, clear streams of ...

Award-winning outdoor writer Jim Casada, a native of the Great Smokies who has written or edited more than 40 books, has just published what he describes as “my book of a lifetime.” Casada said, "I ...

TOWNSEND, Tenn. – Two visitors emerged from the rhododendron, surveyed the landscape, consulted in whispers and planned their approach. They were on the Middle Prong of Little River in a ...

If you can catch a trout on a fly rod in the Smokies, you can catch a trout anywhere. But catching trees and a whole lot of nothing are the usual for most fly fishermen visiting Great Smoky Mountains ...

After this long, cold winter, it is easy to say that those in the fly fishing community are more than hurting with a case of cabin fever. Going absolutely bonkers and cross-eyed from tying flies is a ...

Great Smoky Mountains — Years of hard work by biologists and volunteers in the Great Smoky Mountains could lure even more anglers to the national park in 2018. The park reintroduced and restored ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. | The bright yellow fly line next to the tippet twitched and I gave the fly rod a little jerk. “You’ve got to be quicker than that,” says Chad Williams, guide for Smoky Mountain ...