Fly Fishing for HUGE Trout in Tennessee! (FINDING A PET DEER?)

Fly Fishing Tennessee and Virginia with a pet deer??

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In this video I took a small 3 day fishing trip with my buddy Will!
Everybody has a crazy fish story or two, some of which are slightly more believable than others. Even I have a few fish stories that when I tell them I don’t even believe they happened myself, which is funny considering I quite literally lived them. But for once, I have a crazy fish story that I got on film, something that never seems to happen. A story with the lowest of lows and the highest of highs, a story with broken spirits, struggle, misery, and lost hope all changed by one… singular… hookset. This is the story of the fish that ALMOST got away.

I’ve fished almost every state in the southeastern US for trout with one exception… Tennessee. Which if you’re a trout angler on the east coast, and probably even beyond, you now that TN has some of the biggest trout east of the Mississippi. So finally, after years of talking about it, I finally made a plan to go down to Tennessee with my buddy Will. This was just going to be a short 3 day trip with the first day focusing on fishing a few streams in Virginia I hadn’t been to. On our first creek of the day we made our first friend, a dear, dear friend, and one that we will forever cherish.

After I caught that rainbow we fished a bit longer but had no other success. This was the part of the story where we struggled, I mean we had fished 2 creeks on our first day and to be honest I got humbled at both of them. We decided last minute to book a guided trip for our second day of the trip and our first full day of fishing Tennessee. Hiring a guide in an area you’ve never been is a cheat code, especially if you plan on fishing a bigger river where floating is the best way to fish. The guide is going to know the ins and outs of the river, and the area, more than anyone. In this case we wanted to throw streamers and our guide Joe told us that was a bad idea if we wanted to actually catch fish. And as stubborn as both Will and I can be, we know better than to not listen to your guide. So we tied up a nymph rig and hit the water.

Will ended up losing a giant brown trout at the end of our float, and we decided to get redemption on day 3 after booking a second guided trip.

As if catching a 25 inch male brown on a size 20 nymph on the absolute last cast of the trip wasn’t insane enough, Will then looked at the fish and found a second fly which wasn’t mine. He handed it to Joe, who confirmed emphatically that it was one of his flies, which he had tied himself. Which meant that was the exact fish Will had fought and lost a little under 24 hours prior. The fish was caught in the same run, although it was in a different position than the day prior, and on a different fly. But to even hook the same fish, especially one of that caliber, on consecutive days is insanity. That gorgeous brown trout wasn’t my catch, it was our catch. Will should have landed the fish the day prior and got screwed over by some fishing line so he deserved it as much as I did, and our guide Joe’s knowledge of the river and what the fish were eating this time of year single handedly saved us from completely failing on this trip. So shouts out to Joe, If you’re in the area and want a knowledgeable guide he’s awesome! We had a blast fishing in Tennessee and will undoubtedly be back in the coming year. And that’s the story of the fish that ALMOST got away.

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