Fly Fishing

**Tom 513** · 01-08-2018, 11:29 AM

Alphahawk, when I camp and trout fish I just gut the trout wrap it in aluminum foil and cook it for 10 mins on a open fire, the filet is light and flakey and easily pulls away from the bones. But it's important to only cook for 10mins I've found, I took my 13yr old grandson fishing at Red river gorge Ky and we all enjoyed our catches

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**deathb4disco** · 01-08-2018, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by ET Fish

Truthfully, I am not very good with a fly rod....

Originally Posted by Tom 513

I've been playing around with fly fishing the past few years, I tell people usually fish alone so people don't point and laugh at me, lol.

Guys, if you can take a casting lesson from a good instructor or just spend a day with a good guide, it will help you immeasurably. Fly fishing (and especially fly casting) does not come naturally to most people. A little professional instruction is well worth it.

**Tom 513** · 01-08-2018, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

Guys, if you can take a casting lesson from a good instructor or just spend a day with a good guide, it will help you immeasurably. Fly fishing (and especially fly casting) does not come naturally to most people. A little professional instruction is well worth it.

Yes, a friend who used to teach gave me lessons, and my casting baffled him. Wind knots tell me when I need to adjust.

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**ET Fish** · 01-08-2018, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

Guys, if you can take a casting lesson from a good instructor or just spend a day with a good guide, it will help you immeasurably. Fly fishing (and especially fly casting) does not come naturally to most people. A little professional instruction is well worth it.

I agree 100%! I actually fly fish with a seasoned mentor, and he has helped me immensely. The problem I have, while making adjustments that he points out, my casting improves vastly. Then, I cast the spinning rod for crappie for about a month before I fly fish again. Bad habits have to be corrected again! I need to spend a bit more back yard time in between!

**ET Fish** · 01-08-2018, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

While I am a member of crappie.com I am not a crappie fisherman as most are on here....I do catch a lot of crappie but I am an avid UL angler and trout are right down my alley using UL rods and 2# test line...and sometimes 1.4# test line. I am fortunate to be very close to the Caney Fork River.......probably one of the best trout streams east of the Mississippi that is not that well known by folks outside the area. I have fished the Cumberland below Wolf Creek for trout and it is a great fishery.......have yet to get onto those triploids they stocked there but will sooner or later. ET when I first ate trout I did so without removing the skin.....a big mistake. About 11:00 .p.m. I started tasting that oil from the skin and I burped that all night long. Since then I eat all my trout filleted with the skin off....LOL. A week ago I took a young college student out on the river for some fishing. He is a freshman at UT and is on their bass fishing team....he is quite an accomplished fisherman. He of course wanted the big fish...so I put him in the heavy current and after he caught 3 good ones back to back I went back to catching 11-12 inch brook trout.....caught around 60 in 4 hours...with a few rainbow mixed in. Got to love the flight of trout. Love those streams in the Smokies but I am not that mobile anymore to hike and crawl around on those boulders....LOL.

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I love the Caney Fork! I have only made two trips there, but thoroughly enjoyed them! It’s a couple hours from home, so a long weekend at Edgar Evins in the cabins, villas, or whatever they are. The kayak gets to make that trip as well!

**Alphahawk** · 01-08-2018, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by ET Fish

I love the Caney Fork! I have only made two trips there, but thoroughly enjoyed them! It’s a couple hours from home, so a long weekend at Edgar Evins in the cabins, villas, or whatever they are. The kayak gets to make that trip as well!

I have floated the Caney in a kayak many times...but no longer own any kayaks. When you decide to float it again on low water let me know by PM and I will give you a crappie hole to stop and fish at if you want to do that.....no need to tell you about the trout spots...as they are pretty thick throughout the first 6-10 miles or so. Most folks go there for the trout fishing...not many realize if you know where to go the river holds some really big crappie. Let me know if I can be of help to you.

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**deathb4disco** · 01-08-2018, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by Tom 513

Yes, a friend who used to teach gave me lessons, and my casting baffled him. Wind knots tell me when I need to adjust.

Originally Posted by ET Fish

I agree 100%! I actually fly fish with a seasoned mentor, and he has helped me immensely. The problem I have, while making adjustments that he points out, my casting improves vastly. Then, I cast the spinning rod for crappie for about a month before I fly fish again. Bad habits have to be corrected again! I need to spend a bit more back yard time in between!

Good tips here from one of the all-time greats:

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/fly-f...ught-rod-cast/

**ET Fish** · 01-08-2018, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

Good tips here from one of the all-time greats:

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/fly-f...ught-rod-cast/

Thanks for that!

**ET Fish** · 01-08-2018, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

I have floated the Caney in a kayak many times...but no longer own any kayaks. When you decide to float it again on low water let me know by PM and I will give you a crappie hole to stop and fish at if you want to do that.....no need to tell you about the trout spots...as they are pretty thick throughout the first 6-10 miles or so. Most folks go there for the trout fishing...not many realize if you know where to go the river holds some really big crappie. Let me know if I can be of help to you.

Regards

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That is very kind, and I will definitely take you up on it! BTW, those are some great trout in your pics! I have caught rainbows and a couple of browns from the Caney, but never a Brookie! The Caney Fork is usually a summer destination for me, but that may be a mistake. Probably a lot less recreational floating?

**Alphahawk** · 01-08-2018, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by ET Fish

That is very kind, and I will definitely take you up on it! BTW, those are some great trout in your pics! I have caught rainbows and a couple of browns from the Caney, but never a Brookie! The Caney Fork is usually a summer destination for me, but that may be a mistake. Probably a lot less recreational floating?

Thanks for the comment about the trout. Sometimes I take my boat up there during generation and me and my nephew go down river throwing cranks. I don’t really like throwing cranks but I go just to see the numbers of big browns following the crank back to the boat. It is always at least one and many times 3-5.....and the size of some of those fish are scary.....they are huge. My son landed a big brown between 10-12 pounds a few years back on 2# test line. The biggest rainbow I have seen was a 13 pounder caught there. The last several years the recreational floating has gotten out of hand. There are several outfitters who dump a ton of canoe and kayaks. But that is going to change according to the Corp of Engineers Information Officer out of Nashville. There were I think 3 dozen swift water recuses done on the Caney in 2017. I was told they can’t stop individual floaters but they are going to put a number limit on the outfitters. That is not going to go over well with those outfitters but one can hardly fish it in the summer.....it has become a zoo.

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