Current streamflow- 80cfs
Water temps- mid 60s at Green Cove
Hatches:
Yellow sallies
Tan caddis
Golden stones
Black midges
Blue-winged olives
Hot flies:
Trout:
Chubby chernobyls- 14-12
Griffiths Gnat- 16
Purple Haze- 16-12
Neversink Caddis- 16-12
Rainbow warrior- 18-14
Frenchie- 18-12
Walt's worm- 16-12
Prince nymph- 16-12
Pat's rubber legs- 14-10
Bass:
Bett's Poppers
Whitlock's Near Nuff Craw
Barr's Meat Whistle
Sparkle Minnows
The Tellico River got a much needed shot in the arm with overnight rainshowers the past couple of nights bringing flows up from 50 to 80cfs. Streams are still below normal flow for this time of year, with the median streamflow for the Tellico River gauge being 124cfs for this date. There's a good chance of rain for the rest of this week and on into next week, so with a little luck we'll get enough accumulation to bring water levels back up to normal.
This coming week will be cooler than the previous few weeks, with highs in the 80s and lows dropping down into the 60s in Tellico Plains. Overnight lows in the mountains will be even cooler than in town, providing relief from the heat to trout who were undoubtedly feeling the strain of low water levels and warming temps.
The hatchery is continuing to stock the Tellico River from Green Cove, upstream to the NC state line, so concentrate on this area if you hope to find stocked fish. The wild trout are still taking dry flies with gusto in the upper reaches of the Tellico River as well as the tributaries. A dry/dropper rigs should cover most situations in the trout water.
Lower elevation streams are still fishing exceptionally well for smallmouth, panfish and other warmwater species, provided you can present a fly without spooking them during low summer flows. The forecasted rain this week should help your chances of success in warmwater streams as well. We found this brute of a drum on a recent smallmouth bass trip.