My son and I went to the Smokey Mountains fishing this weekend. We caught 18 rainbows and a bunch of creek chub over the weekend. The mountains, as always are beautiful and the fishing was pretty good considering how warm and dry it has been there this summer.

Here are some photos of our trip. I only took photos of a couple fish as I didn't want to stress them out any more than necessary.

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This is a boulder field we crawled up, over, and around. This was a rough stretch of water. We caught a couple nice rainbows there.
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This is a video my son shot of my casting "technique". I was trying to get a dry fly up under an overhanging tree. I didn't know he was filming me.
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This is a "micro trout". I don't know how he fit the fly in his mouth....
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This is a very pretty little chub. I don't know what kind they are, but they were nearly as pretty as the trout.
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This is pretty typical of the higher elevation water we were fishing.
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My son was looking at some butterflies that were eating something off of a rock. There were hundreds of these black and blue butterflies all over the park this weekned. Some trails they looked like leaves falling from the trees. They would light on your hat as you walked through. Pretty cool.
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This one is typical of a Smokey Mountain trout.
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Thanks for looking.

Jeff