TR: The Tennessee side of the Smokies

Wayne Knight wrote:

{Little River]

I've had good days just as it goes into the park but I prefer going
upstream, as far above the visitor's center as my fat ass can get. Since the
road follows it for a ways, it's not that hard to do. The East Prong is the
more *famous* stretch but the the other prongs can provide some decent
activity as well as a better workout and quicker thinning of the crowds.

I was real tempted by some of the areas around Meigs Falls and The
Sinks. There were some awfully pretty pools in there.

I
was fishing a great caddis hatch one day on one of them when I had my only
wild bear sighting. I never knew I could move so fast and so quiet in waders
on an Appalachian stream when those cubs decided they wanted to share the
pool with me.

Yikes. I haven't had the pleasure, but I expect I'd break my own
personal 100 yard dash time. :-o


Chuck Vance

Conan The Librarian wrote:

I was real tempted by some of the areas around Meigs Falls and The
Sinks. There were some awfully pretty pools in there.


Get above Meigs and you loose the browns and bows, fishing gets tougher
but the fishies get a whole lot prettier.

As luck would have it, something family wise has come up this weekend,
no TN for me

Wayne Knight wrote:

Get above Meigs and you loose the browns and bows, fishing gets tougher
but the fishies get a whole lot prettier.

I didn't realize brookies were in the Little in the park. Damn, if
I'd known, I would have made Carol stop to take some pictures there. :-)

As luck would have it, something family wise has come up this weekend,
no TN for me

Sorry to hear that. Maybe later this year?


Chuck Vance