December update Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Tuck Fly Shop!  What a great year this has been.  I feel like it flew by for me but sitting here looking back has really made me realize how blessed we are to have the support from all of you.  To us here at Tuck Fly Shop it’s more than just selling you a puck of flies or taking you out fishing.  We truly cherish building relationships and seeing the same faces again and again.  We appreciate each and every one of you th

The first half of the month has brought another round of stocking here in Western North Carolina and all of those DH waters have been fishing great!  Not seeing a ton of browns this time around but plenty of opportunistic brooks and hard fighting rainbows.  We’re largely finding most of our success subsurface on the Tuck, but when the water is off dry fly action definitely picks up.  An effective tactic to use in this situation would be to run a small unweighted soft hackle i

October Blog Delayed Harvest season is here!  And the fish are biting.  We started the first weekend off with a reservation book full of trips.  From seasoned anglers to brand new beginners, entire families to a father-daughter getaway it was a weekend full of smiling faces and plenty of fish tales!  We greatly appreciated seeing everyone that came through the shops and look forward to seeing those of you still on their way. Now for the fishing, that’s why you’re reading righ

Fall is upon us here in the Smokies!! Nicolay probably provides the most honest and accurate advise in Western North Carolina! Fishing...

by: Nicolay Bell Current fishing conditions Here in the mountains of Western North Carolina we are back to a little stretch of summer...

July Blog Well we are definitely moving into the dog days of Summer.  It’s been pretty warm up here in the mountains with air...