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Type of Stream
Freestone
Species
Brown Trout (wild and stocked)
Rainbow Trout (wild and stocked)
Size
Small to Medium
Location
Northeastern Tennessee
Nearest Towns
Elizabethton, Tennessee
Damascus, Virginia
Season
Year-round
Access:
Good
Special Regulations
None
Non-Resident License
The State of Tennessee
Weather
National Weather Service Link
Seasons:
The Tennessee fishing season runs year-round
Spring:
Spring is the time most aquatic insects hatch and the time of year the dry fly fishing would be the best.
Summer:
Hot summer temperatures can make the stream almost too warm to fish. When it isn’t too warm, the fishing is excellent.
Fall:
Fall is certainly the best time to catch one of the large brown trout fly fishing Beaverdam Creek.
Winter:
You can catch trout on most nice winter days.
Recommended Tackle & Gear
Fly Line:
4, 5 or 6 weight
Leaders:
Dry fly: 9 to 12 ft., 5 or 6X Nymphing:
71/2 ft., 3 or 4X, Streamers 0-2X
Tippets:
Dry fly: 5 or 6X, Nymphing: 3 or 4X,
Streamer 0-2X
Best Fly Rods:
Perfect Fly Supreme Four, Superb Five
or Ultimate Six
Fly Reels:
For 4/5/6 fly line
Fly Floatants and Misc Items:
Floatants, KISS Strike Indicators
Tools & Accessories:
Nippers, forceps, retractors, etc.
Copyright 2013 James Marsh
Fly Fishing Beaverdam Creek Tennessee
When you are fly fishing the Beaverdam Creek, you usually have the stream to yourself. Beaverdam Creek lies in the Northeast corner of Tennessee just south of the Virgina line and town of Damascus. It flows into Laurel Creek which flows through Damascus. You can reach the creek from Elizabethton, Tennessee, or Damascus, Virginia. Tennessee highway 133 runs along side the creek just about its entire length.
The upper end of the stream is in a beautiful valley with several farms. I do not recommend you fish the stream in that area. Most of the places you could access the stream is on private property and you would need to ask permission. The reason I am not recommending it is the fact it is not the fast flowing water trout prefer and I seriously doubt it has very many wild trout. The best water is downstream of the valley where the stream flows through the Cherokee National Forest.
This stream is stocked but it also has a good number of wild trout. It seems to produce as many wild trout as it does stocked trout. That could be because the locals quickly catch most of the trout the state stocks.
Casting the wild trout isn’t exactly easy. They learn from birth to eat the natural food in the stream and it becomes necessary at times to match the most available and plentiful food the trout are eating.
Fly Fishing Guide to the Beaverdam Creek
The most productive method to use to catch the large brown trout in Beaverdam Creek is “high stickin” nymphs. Although Beaverdam Creek is a Appalachian stream, it does not have a low PH typical of most others. It has a relatively high PH probably due to the runoff of the farm land
upstream. The aquatic insect population is quite different from many of the mountain freestone streams in the area. For example, we have found both Yellow Drakes and Green Drakes there as well as a lot of different species of net spinning caddisflies that don’t exist in plentiful quantities in acidic water. To put it in simple terms for you that are not real familiar with bugs (entomology), there is a lot of food for the trout to eat in the stream.
Angie and I have fished this stream approximately six times, although all but one trip was just for a couple of hours each time. We have spent only one full day on the creek fishing it at various spots all the way from the end of the valley to Virginia. We caught trout at every stop. I caught a very nice brown trout approximately 14-15 inches on a dry fly along
with several eight to ten inch trout that certainly appeared wild in all respects.
As mentioned in the introduction to this section, the best way to fish this creek is using the “high stickin” method of nymphing. In case you aren’t familiar, it is a matter of wading up close to the deeper runs and making very short cast up and across. You want to hold the rod tip high above your head and allow the nymph to swing downstream on the bottom to the down and across position. You do not use a strike indicator, rather detect the takes by feel and by watching your fly line carefully. The idea is to get the nymph in the tight places near undercut banks and boulders. The large browns in Beaverdam Creek are always hidden in tight conditions where short, accurate cast are a must to keep from hanging up.
Trout can also be taken on dry flies during most of the year, but its always best when there’s a hatch occurring. Streamers can also be effective, especially when the brown trout are moving upstream to spawn.
We could only recommend Beaverdam Creek as part of a trip that included other streams in the area; or for anyone, like us, that may just want to discover everything there are to discover. It is a good stream in all respects but like all the others in the area, I wouldn’t rate it higher than several of the other fine streams Northeast Tennessee or Southern Virginia.