Hope everyone had a great holiday season, and time well spent with friends and family throughout Christmas and into the New Year. I am back again with another blog installment highlighting the Smith River and its Winter fishing seasonality.  I have alluded to in prior articles a general overview of fishing throughout the four seasons here on the Smith, we will call this one “Winter”, but speak on the varying temperatures it has produced. Christmas Eve brought us a high of 72 and great fishing...

As we are progressing through our fall season well out here on the Smith River in Bassett Virginia, we are finding fish transitioning into new trends based on temperatures and flows. It really highlights the luxury of our resource here in the foothills of the blue ridge region and our accessibility to viable trout fishing year round! Heading into colder temperatures has us reflecting on season changes we fish throughout the calendar year and how it all comes full circle. The heightened...

Fall fishing is here and we are beginning to see those seasonal changes associated with the altering of seasons on our tailwater system. Not only do our fish undergo seasonal changes that have been outlined in prior articles but our entire waterway undergoes two main seasonal shifts. This variability created by nature of being a tailwater and reaping the effects from the dependent release of water from Philpott Lake. Even throughout these seasonal shifts the almighty Smith prevails and...