Discover and Celebrate the Bliss of the Asheville Area and Western North Carolina Fishing Resources
Fly Fishing for North Carolina Trout
Fishing Locations
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
"... Due to a successful brook trout restoration program, for the first time in 30 years, anglers are now able to fish for brook trout in park streams. Great Smoky Mountains National Park has about 2,115 miles of streams within its boundaries, and protects one of the last wild trout habitats in the eastern United States. The park offers a wide variety of angling experiences from remote, headwater trout streams to large, coolwater smallmouth bass streams. Most streams remain at or near their carrying capacity of fish and offer a great opportunity to catch these species throughout the year. Fishing is permitted year-round in the park, from 30 minutes before official sunrise to 30 minutes after official sunset...." Fishing FAQS
Fishing Shops and Guide Services
Davidson River Outfitters
".... Western North Carolina’s premier fly shop and guide service. Located on the banks of the Davidson River in Brevard, North Carolina, we serve the resort towns of Lake Toxaway, Cashiers, and Highlands. We are also a very short drive from Asheville and Hendersonville. Our shop is literally minutes from the best fishing WNC has to offer and is open from 8 am to 5 pm year round...."
Fishing trip with Beth and Cris shows some delightful footage in various locations including the Davidson River in Brevard
FREE equipment, FREE tackle, and FREE bait. • 3 pond sizes, stocked with Rainbow Trout.
• You pay only for what you catch.
• We'll even clean it for you!
For some people, cleaning their catch is part of the fun of fishing, and you may do so, or we will clean them for you for .50 cents each. We will filet or clean your trout whole whatever you prefer. Rainbow trout may be refrigerated up to seven days of purchase. We double bag and ice down all orders. Trout cost $4.65 per pound live weight.
Fish Smoking
If you are traveling or just hungry for fresh trout, we will smoke your catch, and in a few hours you can be enjoying fresh rainbow trout. Once your trout is smoked, it may be refrigerated up to ten days.
Perfect for church groups, grade school field trips, and company retreats.
No reservations required
Groups of 10 or more, please call in advance
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Explore the Bliss of Fishing in Western North Carolina
Between the weather, geology, geographic location, entomology, native plant life, and fisheries management policies have combined to create daunting obstacles for the Great Smoky Mountain fly-angler. In this book, Ian Rutter unlocks the secrets of this gorgeous region, including: trout streams, game fish, fishing methods, fishing seasons, catching larger trout, trout flies, and more.
The Fly-Fishing guide to the Great Smoky Mountains does more than any other book in print to bring success to a fishing trip. This landmark volume is an essential guide for anyone planning to fish the rivers, streams, and lakes in the Smokies - these fisheries are some of the greatest in the nation. For successful fly-fishing, this guide is as important as the right tackle.
An amazing reference book filled with close to 200 pages of text, maps, charts and photos. Designed for the intermediate to more advanced angler (although many fundamentals are covered as well). Dozens of waterways throughout the area are featured. Truly a must have reference book for any fly-fishing enthusiast looking to fish the Smoky Mountain area.
Click on each of the dozens of categories to the left to uncover what makes the Asheville area so vital, so intriguing and so, well, UTTERLY BLISSFUL!
Fly Fishing the Little River in Western North Carolina near Mt. Airy . Lots of rushing water and action! It feels like you're right there in the water along with them!
Appalachian Fly Fishing
"... Fly Fishing is known as the quiet sport. Nowhere is that more evident than in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. The small burbling streams where brookies are found give a sense of peace like no other. The rushing tail waters even quiet, when the generations subside and the only sound is of the sipping trout...." This is a wonderfully put together website which will delight your senses.
Cherokee, North Carolina
"... one of the country's top places for trout fishing can be attested to by the annual issuance of over 70,000 permits [available at the Visitor's Center in downtown Cherokee]. While this number may seem high and produce an image of shoulder-to-shoulder fishermen, it is easy to find a place - even on busy days - where anglers can fish without encountering a fellow sportsman. Even experienced fishermen will find excellent fishing in the Oconaluftee River in the downtown area of Cherokee where visitors can watch as the fishing "game" is played...."
Smoky Mountain Trout Stalkers
"... We offer fly fishing guide services that can accommodate any skill level. Anyone interested in fly fishing can get a jump start on the basics from our instruction. Or perhaps we could provide the trip of a lifetime to even the most novice fly fisherman. Smoky Mountain Trout Stalkers is based out of Bryson City, North Carolina. This puts us in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains...."
North Carolina Fishing Information
"...Fishing opportunities in North Carolina abound. Whether you are fishing for native brook trout in a cold mountain stream, lunker largemouth bass in a piedmont reservoir, brawny striped bass in a river or you just want to take your kids fishing at a community fishing lake, our state's waters offer diverse angling opportunities for everyone...."
Discover the Bliss of Fishing in Western North Carolina
Western North Carolina Fly Guide"... is the definitive guide to flyfishing for trout, bass, and musky on 76 wade and float stretches in Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.... divided into 7 regions, the guide provides a description, regulations, when and what to fish info, detailed driving directions, and photos of every reach. 21 scale maps and an appendix packed with tables on regulations, available species, fly selection, and hatches.... over 275 color photographs..."
Trout Streams of Southern Appalachia "...When Trout Unlimited rated the 100 best trout streams in the United States, nine of its choices were in the southern Appalachians. Veteran angler and writer Jimmy Jacobs takes readers to these famous rivers and to many lesser-known waters in this five-state region...."
Cooking with Trout "... As a lifelong lover of catching and eating them and a collector of
trout recipes, I can say that this is the tops of what I've come across
so far. Both for its quantity and quality, this book is exquisite. Its
large format and rich four-color photography enhancing one's desire to
try such as: Trout Bisque; Smoked Trout Tartlets; Seared Trout
Bruschetta; Pan-Fried Citrus Trout with Basil; Trout with Cucumber
Cream; Poached Trout with FennelTrout Gougere; Smoked Trout Risotto;
Trout Burgers..."
Finding Your Way in Asheville is ".... a different kind of guide book. Instead of offering glossy photos and paid insertions from big bucks advertisers, it gives you the kind of information you'd get from a best friend who moved to Western North Carolina twenty years ago. "I've discovered the greatest place for a romantic dinner," she'd say. "Just around the corner from Pritchard Park. Here, let me draw you a map." It's a selective guide in that the authors share the places they've come to love while living, working, dining out, partying, biking, hiking, canoeing and raising children in the "Paris of the South."
