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Tight Line Fly Fishing
155 Red River Road
Jonesborough, TN 37659
Office - (423) 306-9552

Untagged  10 May 2007 1:03 PM
Watauga Still Hot...but limited dry fly action by gloomis1297

The Watauga River is slowly tapering down on the dry flies, but man, the fishing is still excellent. We won't say where we're fishing but let's just say it's been a good few days on the water. Nymphing has produced excellent numbers of fish and some very nice 20+ inch rainbows. One of our clients, Jim Cannon, even landed a 28 1/2 inch brown less than two weeks ago. Streamer fishing is still excellent in high water conditions but the name of the game is the nymphing. Size 14 & 16 hendricksons have been popping sporadically in the evenings but fishing with a size 14 pheasant tail and a size 16 soft hackle as really been getting the job done.