Trout

Want to catch a trout of a lifetime?  The South Holston boasts some of the biggest brown trout in the world, and you don't have to travel to New Zealand to catch one. Our guides specialize at finding these giants and then dialing up the right combination of stealth and fly presentation to hookup with these old fish.

Since we have been having a major winter here in the Smoky Mountains with a great deal of snow fall and with unseasonably cold weather, it may be time to discuss the water temperature and how it affects the trout fishing. We have discussed this in some length in Class 2052 Winter Trout Fishing  by Dan Farnsworth who is from the very far North and who will not go fishing in the summer. 

A portion of the Wilson CreeK near the town of Mortimer NC, was recently made a delayed harvest stream.  A friend of mine Johnny Dollar caught this HOG on the DH portion of the Wilson recently.  John caught her on a #18 Hetero-Genius nymph tied by Dave Hise of Casters of Hickory on a 9ft, 5X Flurocarbon leader. He used his rod of choice, a 9ft Orvis T3 5wt and reel was an Abel TR2 loaded with Rio Gold Line. Water was very clear and slightly lower than usual. 

Triploid rainbow trout are named triploid because they possess three sets of chromosomes which render them sterile. The triploidy process involves the heating of eggs at 26 to 27 degrees C for 20 minutes at 20 minutes after fertilization.