Current streamflow- 261cfs
Water temps- mid 50s
Hatches:
Yellow Sallies
Golden stoneflies
Sulphurs
March browns
Tan caddis
Midges
Hot Flies:
Tellico/Citico-
Pat's rubber legs
Walt's worm
Blowtorch
Pink squirrel nymph
Squirmies
Chubby Chernobyl
Yellow stimulator
Tributaries-
Parachute adams
Yellow stimulator
Elk hair caddis
Hot bead pheasant tail
Bloody Mary nymph
Pink squirrel nymph
With the beautiful weather and perfect strewmflows and water temps this week, this is prime time spring fishing. The hatches have been incredible with a variety of mayflies, stoneflies, caddis, and midges on the water, especially in the evenings. The dry fly action has been amazing on the smaller streams and the upper Tellico River, where more wild trout are present. You've got a wide variety of dries and nymphs to choose from right now with so many hatches going on. Now is also a great time to go for a hike and find some brookies.
The stocked trout will also take dries on occasion, but you will find better numbers of fish on nymphs. Try a dry and dropper with a large foam bug such as a chubby chernobyl with a Walt's worm, perdigon, or squirmy dropped 2-2.5' below to find fish feeding both on and below the surface.
With current streamflows, you'll have a lot of very wadeable and fishable water to choose from. You'll be able to find trout along the entire length of the Tellico River, with the best fishing being from the Baby Falls picnic area upstream to the NC state line.
There is some rain in the forecast for Friday night/Saturday morning. The current forecast is calling for 1/2" total. This may add some color to the water on Saturday morning, but shouldn't be enough to make the river unfishable over the weekend.
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