My dad and I have been float 'n' fly fishing for over 3 years now, and since then it has become our favorite style of fishing. We live just a short distance from Norris Lake, so this is where we do most of our smallmouth fishing. Over the past 15 years, Norris has been an extremely difficult lake for many people to catch fish in. My dad and I have fished in Norris Lake for as long as I can remember, and we've definately been skunked more than a few times. We used to try everything. Crankbaits, plastic worms/lizards, spinnerbaits, jigs, the whole nine yards. Until a friend of mine introduced me to "The Float 'N' Fly," I was just about to give up fishing on Norris Lake. I knew there were some big fish in there, but catching them was a whole different story. When we first heard about the "Float and Fly", we decided to try it out for ourselves. To our suprise, we started catching some really nice fish and very quickly grew to love this fishing technique. My outlook upon fishing had changed completely. After fishing a few times with the float and fly, I was determined to learn as much about this technique as I possibly could. I loved fishing this way so much, I told myself that cold weather would never be an issue for me again. On the coldest, sleeting, overcast, windy days while most people were sitting in their warm living rooms watching t.v., I wanted to be on the lake fishing for smallmouth. So thats what we did.

For the past few years my dad and I have fished this way, probably over 90% of the time, and have finally mastered the fine art of cold weather smallmouth fishing. This has become a popular winter time method for catching smallmouth bass, but if you vary the depths of your fly and change it's presentation, it will also catch fish at other times of the year. We have also caught largemouth bass, crappie, blugill, drum, and even stripers using the float 'n' fly.