Tennessee Trout Waters: Blue-Ribbon Fly-Fishing Guide [Paperback]

Ian Rutter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2003

There is tremendous diversity in Tennessee’s trout waters: tailwater rivers, mountain streams, and lakes, and much of it is on public land. This guidebook will give you a good starting point for exploring these waters, including up-to-date information, detailed maps, and easy-to-understand icons. Productive techniques and fly patterns are given for over 25 different trout waters, as well as what species you can expect, whether hiking is required, available camping and accommodations, whether it is safe for canoe, drift boat or motorized boats, and more. Not only is Tennessee beautiful and historical, it has great trout fishing; Tennessee Trout Waters is your guide to this fly-fishing paradise.

Product Details

• Paperback: 86 pages
• Publisher: Frank Amato Publications (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571882944
• ISBN-13: 978-1571882943
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #884,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Coverage of a broad topic..., March 15, 2006

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T. Chandler "Leader of the Trout Underground" (Dunsmuir, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tennessee Trout Waters: Blue-Ribbon Fly-Fishing Guide (Paperback)

I visit Tennessee in the Spring to fish the Park and the tailwaters, and Ian's book has been my sole guide to these waters since its publication. It covers a wide, wide range of rivers and streams, and delivers enough information to get you on the water with a reasonable idea about what's about to happen.

A nice touch is Rutter's listing of alternative fisheries (and drive times); should you arrive at a tailwater and discover the water release schedule has been altered, leaving you with an unfishable mess.

Rutter certainly knows these fisheries like the back of his hand (he's the top guide in the area, and lives on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park), and manages to impart a lot of information very quickly.

My only real complaint is that a longer book might be a bit more useful - in places, I'd love to have more information, though the somewhat transient nature of the tailwater fisheries (they live and die based on TVA flow schedules, which can change on a whim) and rapid development around some of the tailwaters (the Clinch being a prime example) would make it difficult to say much with any real precision.

A great & useful guide book.

4.0 out of 5 stars A good overview of East Tennessee trout waters, October 2, 2011

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W. Isenberg (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tennessee Trout Waters: Blue-Ribbon Fly-Fishing Guide (Paperback)

The author does a pretty good job of covering the diverse types and locations of trout fishing opportunities in East Tennessee.
Making the distinction among "tailwater", "lake" and "mountain streams" and the different approaches needed for each is quite helpful.
Offering alternatives for tailwater locations is also a big plus.
More detail on the streams could certainly be included, but that level of detail can change year over year with a flood event or wild fire.
All in all, a good effort and an excellent resource by the author.
I'm giving this one four stars, as I do not know that five stars are possible in covering the trout fishing diversity in this area.

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but not detailed enough, April 10, 2011

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qacwac (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews

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I haven't been out on any of the rivers with this book yet, but it looks like it will be helpful. It doesn't seem to carry near the detail as the Wyoming one I have, but, still helpful.