mrl0004

Started out the Saturday with my first-ver smallmouth fishing trip. We fished a very small creek thats feeds off the TN river here in North AL.
It didn't take long to score my first ever (on any tackle), albeit small, smallmouth!

I got a little bigger one a few casts later....

Nice colors on this one...

I did wind up hooking a 4lber but lost it as I was way too impatient and tried to horse it in. I am going back this Saturday on a mission to catch him again for a re-match.

Then I head a few miles north just across the border into TN. This was my first fly fishing trip for trout. I had a lot to learn, first time nymphing, mending, etc. So needless to say, the fishing was slow for me. But at least I wasn't skunked!
Elk River, TN


First moving water rainbow on the fly!


Super little brown, but first ever on fly....


Spent a lot of time doing this, trying to find something that worked for me....

buckhunter14

Some awesome scenery pictures and even better accomplishments! Congratulations, something to certainly be proud of.

pa_yote_hunter

Awesome photos.

I love catching smallies with my fly rod. What fly did you catch those smallmouth on?

mrl0004

Thanks! I am going back Saturday morning to try the same smallmouth creek and possibly a new one that afternoon. Then Sunday I am headed to Wilson Lake (Smallie heaven) in Florence, AL to fish for smallies hopefully during a mayfly hatch. Then Sunday afternoon heading back to TN with a different guy that supposedly knows where the browns are in that river. Another fishing filled weekend, but that's the way I like 'em!

mrl0004

I caught them all on what is called "the one bug." I went fishing with the son of the man who created the fly. He was nice enough to give me several and put me on some fish. A day I'll never forget for sure. This is the bug:
http://flyanglersonline.com/flytying...011507fotw.php

pa_yote_hunter

did you end up catching a lot of bluegill? It seems like most times I take out a popper like that I end up catching more bluegill and rock bass then smallmouth.

mrl0004

Actually I didn't catch too many. I targeted the current and boulders more. I would say it was about half and half, with a slight edge to more smallies. I am thinking about trying a crawfish pattern, or a brown wooly bugger Saturday in some of the deeper pools

Gangly

Great looking fish and surroundings! Hopefully you catch a lot this saturday. Though I dont tie my own flies, and am an amateur by all means of the word, the links to that fly are great and very helpful.

Chuck7

nice pics and scenery..good eatting to when caught from water like that.