Low Water At Last

[John Berry]

I fished the Narrows yesterday morning with a few guys from Memphis. We walked in at sunrise. the water was dropped out. The wind was howling and the temperature was around forty degrees.The fishing was excellent. We nailed nearly a hundred by lunch. The hot fly was the Y2K but we also caught fish on sowbugs, partridge and orange soft hackles and olive woolly buggers.

We stopped at noon and went to the Sands restaurant for lunch. A hot bowl of vegetable beef soup and a Rueben sandwich girded me for the afternoon. We drove over to Rim Shoals and the water was low and dropping. The fishing was not as hot as the morning but we caught plenty of trout. The hot flies here were small sowbugs and olive scuds. We also caught fish on olive woolly buggers and Y2Ks. We fished until sunset. It was nice to wade low water for a change!