water temp: 49 / partley cloudy / temp 50 degrees / light wind / Dec: 28 Ran a fishing charter today with a party out of Bryson City. Water is real low and the temp is down. Ran strait to the Smokey National Park side of the Tuckasegee River and fished from Forney Creek west to [...]
water temp: 56 degrees / December 17th / water level low / no wind and sunny / 46 degrees The fish are doing really well lately with their normal migration to the back of the deep water creeks really playing a big role now. Our guide service out of SW North Carolina has had 50 [...]
water temp 82 / cloudy early giving way to hot sun / 85 degrees Went straight to Chambers creek and marked some bait. Good fish sitting right on the bottom with very strong returns from the sonar showing large gizzard shad. Gizzards have really moved into the back of the creek possibly pushing the smaller [...]
Aug 7th / water temp 83 / morning clouds with little wind Fished a half day guided fishing charter to Lake Fontana today with an average catch for this time of year of about 20 fish or so. Good bait (shad balls) are still stacked in the back of Chambers creek. Did notice Gizzard returns [...]
water temp 85 / 3 days of fishing / Aug 1-3 Rented a cabin down by the dam. Bass fished summer time patters a 4-5 hours a day. Found three patters producing some good size largemounth and a few smallmouth. 1: Gizzard shad in the way back of creeks. Look for splashed in the middle [...]