Trout anglers can experience good-to-great fishing now through November in North Carolina’s high country, according to a Bryson City guide. “Fishing’s really good right now,” said Gene Shuler, owner of Fly Fishing the Smokies Guide Service (828-488-7665). “The Little Sallie (stonefly) hatch is excellent in Great Smoky Mountains National Park streams.”   >> Read Complete

Every stream in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is open to fishing for the first time since 1934. Different streams have been unavailable to the public on and off since the park opened in 1934, and a recent reopening of 8.5 miles of Lynn Camp Prong was the last to be closed. The prong