I am going on vacation with my family to Gatlinburg, Tn this weekend and I am throwing my fishing gear in the car and going to try to do some fishing while I'm there.  I am from Toledo, Oh and am not familiar with the area so where are some spots in Gatlinburg to go bass fishing?  We rented a cabin up in the mountains. I am trying to stay close to the mountains as I can.

I hope you packed an ultralite with some roostertails and 4lb. test line.  Try the trout instead if you are that close to the mountain streams.  You will be impressed and they are much more palatable than a bass. 8-) You are are the wrong side of the mountains for me to tell you where to fish in Gatlinburg.  However, you will not want to drive much there.  Traffic sucks.

Trout creek runs right through the center of town. You can get bit right there. there is a fly shop located on the Pigeon Forge road just where it forks with 321 on the lower end of town. just south of the split it will be on your left going south. Sorry, can't remember the name.

There is a huge flyfishing shop a mile from the south park entrance in Townsen. It will be on the right as you leave the park headed to Maryville. They ship stuff all over the world.

You also have the Pigeon and the Little Pigeon rivers or you can get a guided trip over on Ft. Louden-Tellico.

No problem finding a place to fish, just have to figure them out. Lots of people fish the tiny plastic worms, but I never did.

If it's bass you want I guess Douglass or Ft. Louden-Tellico lakes would be the best/closest choices.

X2 on the traffic sucks. I've seen it many times bumper-to-bumper from downtown all the way back across the river in Pigeon Forge.

Good luck

X2 on what he just said.  For bass, you're going to have to fish the Little Pigeon through Pigeon Forge and Sevierville, or the Little River through Townsend. Find a bridge and start from there.  Little River Outfitters is the fly shop he's referring to above, AWESOME shop.    I'd bring M at the heaviest.  Lower Abrams creek where it dumps into Chilhowee (i think) Reservoir also has some good smallmouth.  If you make it over to Douglas or Ft Loudon/Tellico, you can find some decent fishing at alot of the public access points or hire a guide.   If it were me, I'd bring a ML, some trick worms and roostertails, and go for smallies around sevierville/pigeon forge.  You'll hit a few trout too, but the smallie fishing is pretty good for 1-3 lb fish.