Fishing

Cooler spots the key this month

September is a transitional month for trout fishers, a limbo period between summer and autumn when streams are still at summer temperatures and trout are active only during the cooler parts of the day, usually early morning and late evening. […]

Fishing

Brookies: healthier than imagined?

For more than 30 years, brook trout have been protected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Keeping a brook trout anywhere in the park has been prohibited since 1976, and some brook trout streams were closed to fishing altogether. […]