From accessible fisheries like Little River to the back-of-beyond isolation of Hazel Creek to such remote high-country hike-ins as Ekaneetlee Creek, where the wild trout have scarcely seen an artificial fly, Ian and Charity Rutter’s encyclopedic guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a fly-fisher’s essential.

– James R. Babb, editor emeritus, Gray's Sporting Journal, and author of Fish Won't Let Me Sleep

The Great Smoky Mountains offer some of the finest pristine and uncrowded trout fishing in North America. I have mixed feelings about this book because it will introduce more people to a world-class resource; but on the other hand there are endless miles of rivers and creeks to explore. I can't think of a better team to write a complete guide on this region than Ian and Charity Rutter. With decades of experience guiding and fishing there, superb photographs, and eminently readable and lively prose, they've written a guide to this region that anyone who has the slightest interest in exploring this national treasure must own.

– Tom Rosenbauer, The Orvis Company

This new guidebook from veteran guides Ian and Charity Rutter offers an abundance of hard-won knowledge about fly fishing for the wild trout found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and throughout Southern Appalachia. From selecting flies and equipment to highlighting the region’s fish, streams, and proven angling techniques, including a chapter on Tenkara, this thorough and delightful compendium is one to be treasured by both seasoned and novice anglers alike.

– Ron Ellis, author of Yonder: Tales from an Outdoor Life and Cogan’s Woods