Don't ever become a guide so you can fish more. If you've never heard that saying before, now you have. As a guide, you are on the w...

Every year, I take a fishing trip in early to mid November. That trip is usually to the Smokies, and I usually end up camping for at least a...

Sight Fishing For a Big Brown Trout on Deep Creek At the tail end of my backpacking trip to  Deep Creek, an opportunity for redemption pr...

Some fishing experiences tend to end in disappointment while others tend to end in elation. For example, there is a stream in the Smokies th...

The Bend. Bumgardner Ridge. The stuff of legend. This is remote Smoky Mountain fishing at its finest. Inaccessible water that rarely gets fi...

The original plan for this camping trip was to start on lower Deep Creek and work our way to the headwaters over the course of several days....

Rivers are like old friends. You may not see each other for a while, but when you do, things pick back up right where you left off. Deep Cre...