Fly Fishing Guide Trips for North Carolina and Tennessee
Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and East Tennessee are some of the finest trout streams you will ever fly fish. High Country Angler Fly Fishing Guide Service is a professional fly fishing guide service that also offers a fly fishing school, lessons and classes for the North Carolina and East Tennessee mountains. If you are looking for a fly fishing vaction in North Carolina or a fly fishing vacation in Tennessee we can accommodate you. Our guides fish on some of the best named trout waters in the south. We provide fly fishing on the tailwaters of the South Holston River and the Watauga River in TN, the Holston River in TN and Delayed Harvest waters in Western North Carolina plus many more which fish great year round. Our fly fishing float trips for trout and smallmouth bass are all taken in the comfort of a Hyde drift boat. The float trips for trout fishing are done on the tailwaters of the Watauga River in Elizabethton, TN and the South Holston River outside of Bristol, TN. The smallmouth fishing is done on the Holston River outside of Kingsport, TN. Our wade fly fishing days can be done in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina or Tennessee. You can pick between fly fishing easy access trout streams or native wild trout streams. The secluded backwoods trip does require a hike to the native wild trout streams.
So whether you would like to go on a fly fishing guide trip to big tailwaters with lunker brown and rainbow trout or for some wild and native trout, we can make your day one to remember. It doesn't matter where you are in the spectrum of fishing skills. Our fly fishing guides tailor to the beginner or advanced fisherman. Take one of our trips and let us give you a the fly fishing adventure of a lifetime.










Fly fishing in Tennessee and North Carolina have been terrific. Both states have their abundance of trout at this time. Fly fishing delayed harvest in North Carolina is good and of course you can't beat the tailwaters of East Tennessee for the consistent year round bite.
Fishing has been great so far this spring. We are getting good hatches and lots of fish. We have landed some big fish in the tailwaters of the Watauga river this year. Caught some smallmouth on the Holston river too. Be sure to check out the latest pictures from a great Spring so far in 2012
Hello and hope you have had a chance to do some fishing. Fly Fishing on the South Holston River and Watauga River in East Tennessee have been pretty terrific this summer. Plenty of fish were caught on dry flies, dry droppers and nymph rigs. I am pretty pumped up
Hello and hope things are well. Trout fishing on the South Holston and Watauga Rivers in East Tennessee has been great throughout the winter. We had some great luck fishing a little bit of everything. Nymph rigs, dry dropper rigs and blue winged olive dry flies did the
The Spring fishing in East Tennessee has been great and will continue throughout the summer. Some folks have the misconception that summertime is not a good time to go trout fishing. That is far from the truth, especially on these waters that are tailwaters(rivers below
Well, I have stayed busy all through the summer and we have caught a lot of trout. The constant action topped with a nice sized trout every now and again makes for great days on the water. The Watauga River has been my river of choice and I will move more towards
Hello and hope things are well. I want to thank everyone for all the great trips this year and look forward to fishing with you again in 2012. We have a had a terrific year of fishing with size and numbers. I am starting to taper off on fishing the Watauga and hitting the South Holston
Hello. Thought I would give a fishing report for the Watauga and South Holston Rivers. Float fishing on the Watauga has been productive and the preferred trip. Wade fishing on the South Holston River has been the only option here lately due to TVA working on the dam
Figured it was time for a fly fishing report for the Watauga and South Holston Rivers here in East Tennessee. The fishing trips have been pretty great throughout the summer. Plenty of fish being caught both on top and on nymph rigs.
Winter trout fishing in Tennessee has been action packed. Tailwaters are really great fisheries in the winter due to their constant temperatures even when it is cold outside. We have been catching most of our trout on nymph rigs with some dry fly action. The rivers



































