While every year is different, most winters allow some good fishing opportunities in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Timing is ever...

There are certain things that will ruin you as an angler. Of course, by ruin I mean spoil you so thoroughly that you don't want to do an...

By the end of our fishing on day two  of our big adventure, we had a decision to make. Continue to fish the stream that we had caught an ino...

Human nature causes us to look on the past with nostalgia. That can be dangerous, of course. One of my history professors in college liked t...

Waking up next to a tumbling mountain trout stream has to be the best way to enter a new day. The glow of dawn had me awake and shortly afte...

A rainy evening on a Smoky Mountain trout stream. ©2025 David Knapp Photography Fishing accessible water is always great for a quick fix, bu...