Fishing

[ck1 actual]

Best fly fishing near Nashville?  Any thoughts? 

[Will]

43 minutes ago, ck1 actual said:

Best fly fishing near Nashville?  Any thoughts? 

Close as I have found  Caney Fork  Smithville    by the dam or behind the I-40 rest area   Seen some bigguns caught there,I think the TWRA dumps the used up brooders there.  Maybe someone knows closer.  I think they may dump them in the Stones at Priest Dam at times.

[derf]

I have fished some of the finest rivers. The Gallatin and Yellowstone in Montana. The Russian and Kenai in Alaska and caught many great fish. But give me a 7wt rod or lighter and a handful of sponge bream killer flies and I am one happy camper. Pound for pound bream fight as much as any Salmon or flounder I’ve ever hooked. I love fishing farm ponds and small lakes when the dogwood trees bloom. Usually mid April. The nesting/breeding  season is almost the same as the blooming. 
 

Take a kid and share the smiles. My Grandfather would only let us fish with fly rods if we were fishing with him and we always caught fish unless the cattle were huddled up tight in the fields and he would turn the truck around. Something about the weather but damn it works. 
 

Go ahead and plan a vacation and fish some famous waters but in the meanwhile if you get near Colliervile and want to wet a hook shoot me a PM. I’ll even loan you a fly rod for the day. 

[ck1 actual]

10 hours ago, Will said:

Close as I have found  Caney Fork  Smithville    by the dam or behind the I-40 rest area   Seen some bigguns caught there,I think the TWRA dumps the used up brooders there.  Maybe someone knows closer.  I think they may dump them in the Stones at Priest Dam at times.

Thank you Will... that is helpful.  

[MacGyver]

Tennessee has one of the best bream fisheries in the world - and I think it's really under appreciated - out at Reelfoot Lake.  It's the only place I've ever seen a competitive bluegill tournament.

Great panfishing at large - and some giant crappie if you hit it right.