The Great Smokey Mountains Fish Camp & Safaris is Western North Carolina’s premier outfitting services. In the heart of the Great Smokey Mountains, swift-running clear and cold streams drop down from the high ridges and create one of the best fisheries in the country .With four riverside properties along the Little Tennessee River, allow us to put together trips of any length. We can customize any trip to accommodate your needs, even serve you a complete gourmet riverside lunch. Our enthusiastic, knowledgeable and helpful guiding specialists conduct unparallel fishing trips for anyone from the avid fly-fishing angler to the ultra-light tackle enthusiast.

This biologically diverse fishery in the earths oldest of mountains offers chances at Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass Walleye and perhaps the hefty Muskie strikes and also Rainbow, Brown and Brooke trout. Our camp on the Little Tennessee River has bait and tackle, canoe, kayak, mountain bike and tube rentals. Go alone or take a guide for just a scenic float or a wonderful day of fishing. Hiking and rock climbing are all around us. Our RV park campgrounds and lodge rooms right on the river with outstanding scenery! Secluded yet only four miles from Franklin, 18 miles from the Nantahala Gorge, and 18 miles up to highlands.

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Little Tennessee River guided fishing trips are your best bet to catch the "big one".  The guides know the secret spots where the fish are biting.  Guided fishing trips are available through our NC fishing outfitters.

From Smallmouth Bass and Largemouth Bass to trout, crappie, Panfish and Catfish, from live bait to delicate flies its all available, by boat or by foot.  Drift fish the river in our old town canoes.  Please call ahead for reservations.