Are these the BIGGEST Brook Trout in Tennessee?

On this truck camping road trip, I'm fly fishing for smallmouth bass with my buddy Ben in Boone, NC for a day before heading to Tellico Plains, TN to spend a few days chasing big brook trout with Micah and Cody from Tellico Outfitters. They invited me up to fish with them and it was absolutely amazing. If you're looking for solid and friendly guides in those areas, I've placed their contact info below and can say without a doubt they are knowledgeable and friendly dudes!
Contact Cody Fischer and Micah Howard at Tellico Outfitters in Tellico Plains, TN or thru the links below:
Tellico Outfitters:
www.tellicooutfitters.com/
IG: / tellico.outfitters
FB: / tellico.outfitters
YT: / @tellicooutfitters8989
Micah Howard:
IG: / southernghost_flyfishing
FB: profile.php?...
Ben Wayne at Boone Fly Shop in Boone, NC
shop.boonesflyshop.com/
Ben (browntroutben) IG: / browntroutben
Boone Fly Shop IG: / boonesflyshop
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[@LooknFishy]

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[@billschlafer]

They say that Trout don't live in ugly places. This video proves it! What a great technical stream. Moss covered boulders, fallen trees and a sparkling stream filled with fat Brookies. Great stuff. It sucks that someone swiped your tarp. Can't trust people these days. Nasty dent in your shin too. Not so much wading there as it is rock climbing. Thanks Drew!

[@drewmccafferty2260]

Great guys at Tellico Outfitters, glad to see you enjoyed the trip!

[@LooknFishy]

It was awesome. Got one more video from this trip!

[@rayflynn7942]

incredible place to fish for brookies! wow !

[@LooknFishy]

Yes it was!

[@johnd5643]

You’re getting close to my stomping grounds!

[@dadventuresoutdoors1835]

Tellico!!! This is awesome! Cody is great!

[@LooknFishy]

They are super cool. We have some adventures planned out west also.

[@SuperGed777]

Fantastic brook trout. Just a beautiful trout fishing dream! Thank you so much.

[@LooknFishy]

It was a great trip..those brookies were a surprise for sure!

[@jimpyle560]

Been waiting to see some smallmouth action. My favorite fish. Awesome.

[@LooknFishy]

I dig smallmouth too...they were made for fly fishing!

[@user-rk2kz3qw5w]

Fished here before, great place and the guys down at the shop are awesome!

[@Micahhowardmusic]

Great time Drew! Don’t be a stranger and come on back anytime!

[@LooknFishy]

Had a blast man, thx for showing me around. Looking forward to doing it again!

[@dogsoldiertoo1099]

Love catching river smallies. For years we used to have a "secret" down in Columbia SC. I'm from the Upstate but had friends around Cola and Lexington. We were catching smallies out of the Broad River. Needless to say it's no longer a secret.

[@LooknFishy]

Yea I learned about it after I moved from Aiken but at the time I was more into bass boats and fishing Santee Cooper.

[@dogsoldiertoo1099]

@@LooknFishy I hear ya. I went through the bass boat phase for about 10 years myself. Did some small time tournament fishing too. But then I started going back to my roots of wading and bass fishing ponds with the fly rod and hitting the trout streams. My son went the other direction I started him on the lakes in a bass boat. Then he grew up, bought a beach house at Fripp Island and a seaworthy boat and runs out to the Gulf Stream regularly to fish. I did at least teach my grandsons how to cast a fly and catch bream before he ruined them. lol

[@ri-jm5tn]

Fifty years ago I had a secret brookie stream that looked and fished very much like the one in your video. Thank goodness there are still some pristine places that hold these gems. Thanks for the awesome video!

[@LooknFishy]

I'm glad they are still around also. Super fun to see streams like they were in the past!

[@guiart4728]

Definitely earned those trout!!! Beautiful!!!

[@larryhudgins6988]

Great video Drew. I cant say enough good things about Cody&Micha and Tellico Outfitters. Like you,they are some fishy dudes.

[@LooknFishy]

Couldn't agree more!

[@heppisaxm8316]

Super fly fishing mister! Magic!❤

[@LooknFishy]

Thank you very much!

[@steveblack5066]

If you don't fall on an East TN brookie stream, you weren't there. Thieves are as thick as mosquitoes in the Tellico area. The "pay to camp" areas are safer, but crowded. BTW, those are the fattest brookies I have ever seen in that area....of course, I would like to know exactly where you were, but that's not your MO. 😂 I'll stop by Tellico Outfitters for the info I need, They are the best. Looking forward to the next vid.

[@tedlivermore6955]

Nice creek,good to see they still got native trout down there.

[@KennethKempka-xg1jk]

Great video I love your stuff, tellico was my first guided fly-fishing trip over a year ago. Cody has a awesome shop and he is a fantastic guy,

[@uni_shadow164]

Love that one Drew! Looking forward to the next video or Part II. I moved to Tenessee back in March and have been fishing the Tellico recently. I suspect that is where the guide will take you next. I had a great day there last week with 12 rainbows netted and 1 lost! It's an amazing fishery and full of beauty!

[@martymoose1719]

Welcome back to the southeast. Those brookies were awesome. It’s cool to see some smallmouth also. Thanks for the coolest fly videos. Your my hero

[@hillbillysportsman5818]

Love the Tennessee action!

[@Fishin-Ipps]

Looks like some fun bushwackin. I spent a lot of years Brookie fishing with a little 3wt - brings back great memories. Thanks Drew

[@richardwelch5609]

Stunning setting great video buddy, tight lines 🎣

[@jimsexton9857]

Tennessee is a great fishery. The license requirements are completely unreasonable.

[@ericrollins4607]

Agreed.

[@EvergreenOG]

What’s different about the license requirements?

[@sneakybow1]

Trout stamp isn't unreasonable. Guess he's complaining about having to buy a Tellico daily permit if you want to fish the main Tellico for stocked rainbows. People will complain about everything these days.

[@jimsexton9857]

@@sneakybow1 No complaints. Just facts. Buy a 1 year license in August for 100.00 (out of state - trout - and it’s good until February. Six months. Buyer beware.

[@sneakybow1]

@jimsexton9857 good Lord, you're complaining that it isn't good for longer than their standard license season structure? $100 is two meals out these days. People will complain about everything, literally everything.

[@jefflevesque5316]

Nike....Brookie Candy. Recommend also Alder Fly. Basically a Coastal Deer Hair Caddis over an olive body. Nice chunkahs...yessuh!

[@ericlee419]

stellar!!

[@tassadar898]

Great video. I got my first wild trout in tellico. Im going back in the next few weeks. Maybe I'll catch my first brook trout there.

[@scottnock5241]

Great smallies!!! I have a hell of time with them on my local water getting them to eat a fly. Those brookies were full on pigs!!!!! Looked super hard and remote too, great stuff!! Always like seeing other guys toting around the hardware too!!! That’s crap about the tarp!!! Hopefully it was the forest service and you can get it back..

[@dadventuresoutdoors1835]

If you are coming to Tellico to fish, it will be WORTH YOUR TIME to stop at the fly shop and talk to Cody. Great guy and he'll steer you right. Even better, hire him or one of the other guides in the shop. Great video Drew! Thanks for coming to TN!

[@bobhammond8067]

What a contrast between the first river (watch your step!) and that cool Brook Trout water!!

[@oldsmugglerflyfishing]

Awesome place

[@tim81212]

I live in Bristol and never fished that area. I'll put it on the list

[@daletowler1354]

hello guys nice trout back into backwoods, I my shelf fly fish from the age of 15 I grew up in NJ, , has some nice trout rivers, but I like fishing the smaller stream away from everyone else, wild trout streams, I have caught some 2lb browns in these small streams, NJ has it.. I fish w/ 5' fly rod small streams my orvis reels 3in to 4in. I like Cherokee in June..

[@noseymosey1556]

any cool streams you can recommend in NJ?

[@andrewnix8043]

June smallmouth in the mountains and not fishing on top? Love that you have a smallmouth video though...tight lines.

[@LooknFishy]

Haha we tried surface patterns...if they'd worked it would have been in the vid!

[@andrewnix8043]

@@LooknFishy gotcha, I mean you know what you are doing. Next Spring/Summer do some smallmouth trips!! I would be happy to guide you on my raft in the mountains of WV.

[@panhandlehelicopter9333]

I was at the same campsite where you camped at the end of the video last week. Nice place. Wild hogs tore up the ground just on the other side of the fire ring.

[@user-so1yx1rl2w]

Loved the video. Are those Brookies wild or had they been stocked previously. Colors looked different than what I’m used to seeing on the wild Brookies in the Park.

[@jimgollach6202]

Dosen't look like idiots got your tarp, might have been the forest service, to many idiots leaving trash around, but then again, who knows. You fellas caught some really nice healthy brookies. Enjoyed watching. 👍

[@LooknFishy]

My first thought was maybe the FS picked it up but seems strange considering it was definitely left on purpose...staked out and raised on one end. Asked Cody and Micah and they said it was probably stolen but we also stopped and picked up trash including a grill that was left beside the road away from a camping spot...so ultimately who knows. But unfortunately, those painters poles went from 7 to $18. Gonna start bringing my old dome tent now.

[@jimgollach6202]

@@LooknFishy it's a shame that people can't leave other people's property alone.

[@diverm2371]

Would love to catch them... Unexceptable. Great video

[@kirkhuffstater5565]

Great looking stream & healthy Brookies! Nice video, as usual. The thieves certainly welcomed you to east TN, but that's unfortunately all too common around this part of the state....too many dishonest, ignorant people to leave anything laying around. 🤥

[@DrBigler]

absolute hammer native brookies. Wow!

[@dickfitswell1778]

I fished the Nantahala River last weekend!!!!!!

[@GLWhitt]

When you called that sunfish a perch, i knew you were from the south!

[@trouterman420]

dang man sorry to hear your stuff got stolen, good thing you didnt leave much

[@01dixieforever01]

Tellico is a stocked river. Fyi

[@kevinclose6728]

I've been wondering with all the off the beaten path places you go how many waders do you go through in a year?

[@Yetimai50]

Never mind just caught it from the video

[@H3DG3xC043]

No budlight drew ?? Lol,jk looked like a great dinner , when you gonna come to new Mexico agian ?

[@Yetimai50]

What size rod were you using? My son and I love to fish in that part of the country

[@nathanperry4190]

What weight rod were you using in tellico?

[@richmel6245]

How you get those flyrods into those tight spots...

[@bradgeffers1080]

Hey Drew have you ever fished the hex in the Midwest?

[@matlong2300]

Where are the dispersed campsites near Boone?

[@johncok-toastin1500]

Have caught all the usual suspects in saltwater OTF, still get more amped about catching 10" brookies on 6x tippets....

[@williampacey9194]

Beautiful area but a little tough going fer an ole fart like me. 😊

[@LooknFishy]

Yea I definitely won't be doing this forever!

[@needysleddog8724]

These are not the native strain

[@mattschrader5047]

No the biggest brook trout are not in Tennessee, not even close. Great video though.

[@LooknFishy]

Didn't say the the biggest were in TN...glad the vid didn't suck!

[@aaronpangle2185]

North River has always been good for good-sized Brookies

[@user-rk2kz3qw5w]

Fished here before, great place and the guys down at the shop are awesome!

[@user-so1yx1rl2w]

Loved the video. Are those Brookies wild or had they been stocked previously. Colors looked different than what I’m used to seeing on the wild Brookies in the Park.

[@Benj3897]

Yeah I dont think those are native southern brookies, still cool!