Today, I'm hooping to get out on the Harpeth River and do a little Smallmouth Bass fishing with my good friend Hayes Brown. Hayes is in my grade and we do a lot of hunting and fishing together throughout the school year. First I'll probably make a stop at Fly South for some new crayfish flies and maybe some fly tying material too!
Not exactly sure what today will bring but hopefully tonight I will have the pleasure of uploading some pictures of Smallmouth Bass on here. The Harpeth River is definitely a fun river to fish and it really doesn't get much pressure at all mainly because it isn't really that great of a river to fish. But it's one of the only ones close to home so it'll have to do. A buddy of mine said he has seen 4lb Smallmouth pulled out of here before so I know that they are lurking around in there.
Smallmouth aren't the only species of fish in the harpeth either, I have caught both Largemouth Bass and Redeye Bass . And some say that there are Rainbow trout in there too but I haven't seen any and if there are, there are very few and they definitely stay out of the shallows because this small Tennessee river would be too hot for them to survive abundantly. But maybe there are, and maybe I'll hook one today.
One thing to watch out for tough while fishing the Harpeth is snakes. Copperheads and Cottonmouth snakes are what you need to look out for. Those things are thick in there! They lay all over the banks under brush and rocks. Just make sure to watch your step and maybe flip over a rock or two before entering the water. I personally don't have that big of a phobia of snakes but I still would rather not get tangled up with either of those species. But besides that, the fishing will hopefully be awesome and I'm lookin' forward to fighting some smallmouth.
Crayfish patterns are my favorite types of flies for this river... I'll be using something like this Bachman's Crawdad fly. I'm stoked to get out on the water and hopefully I'll have some pics to upload later!
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