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5 Tips for Winter Musky Fishing the French Broad River

5 Tips for Winter Musky Fishing the French Broad River

It’s deep winter here in the mountains of WNC and East Tennessee and it’s a great time to go musky fishing! Our local rivers and streams are running full and clear, and our muskies are fat and happy. Here are a few tips that can help maximize your time on the water and put more fish in the net.

FLY TYING: HOW TO TIE SCULPZILLA

FLY TYING: HOW TO TIE SCULPZILLA

Sculpzilla is a popular pattern that imitates one of the brown trout’s favorite baitfish, the sculpin. On the South Holston River and Watauga River, it is a streamer pattern that often finds its way into our rotation when targeting predatory fish.

Asheville Fly Fishing Company's newest guide ~ Dave Alexander

Asheville Fly Fishing Company's newest guide ~ Dave Alexander

Please help us welcome Dave Alexander to the Asheville Fly Fishing Company guide team!

Watauga River Fly Fishing - Beetle mania

Watauga River Fly Fishing - Beetle mania

Sometimes we get an opportunity to catch “the fish that got away. Sometimes we get our flies back from the fish that get away on guide trips.

Fly Tying: How to tie "Spring Peeper" for Smallmouth Bass

Fly Tying:  How to tie "Spring Peeper" for Smallmouth Bass

This is a great pattern to use when fly fishing for Smallmouth Bass. When the little frogs known as spring peepers come out to play, so do the smallies. Here in Asheville, NC this pattern has produced for us time and time again on our freestone rivers the Nolichucky River & French Broad River.

Asheville Fly Fishing Company joins Costa Kick Plastic Guide Program

Asheville Fly Fishing Company joins Costa Kick Plastic Guide Program

Our first 100 trips in 2019 will receive free AFFC stainless steel water bottles to take home.