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Timeless trout farm fishing in the Great Smokey Mountains

Grownups love the trout farm experience as much as the kids at English Mountain Trout Farm near Sevierville, Tennessee in the Great Smokey Mountains
Tom Wilmer

For more than a century family vacations in the mountains of America often included a trip to a trout farm. Join Charlie Ford at English Mountain Trout Farm just down the road a spell from Forbidden Caverns on the outskirts of Sevierville, Tennessee in the heart of the Great Smokey Mountains for the rest of the story.

Trout farms’ ponds were chock full of trout and they didn’t stand a chance with the temptation of the excited kids’ baited hooks.

The holiday pastime has dimmed in popularity but there are a few iconic places like English Mountain remain and do a thriving business with the kids and adults alike. 

Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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