Monthly Archives: March 2009
Threat to AGFC Independence
Join the fight to save the independance and finances of your fishery. A new Arkansas Senate resolution being considered would bring the Arkansas Game and Fisheries under legislative control and put AGFC funds into the common pool. Government bureacrats and many elected officials hate monies being held by independant authorities, as they don’t have control, [...]
FISHING REPORT _ 3-26-09
Its springtime and the air is getting buggy. If your a fly fisher worth his vest you have probably been starting the ritual of examining spider webs around outside lights, and conducting post mortem identification on your vehicle’s front grill. Some spring rain has flows up on the White and Norfork this week and with a little [...]
The Bugs – Caddis Invasion Video
If you haven’t struck a blizzard caddis hatch on the White this video will give you a pretty good idea of what is going on. The film is actually from the South Fork of the Snake but we hit similar conditions at Rim last year and we heard of hatches this big last week on the [...]
24-Carat Caddis
Herbet Duprat’s Caddis Fly jewelery These remarkable works of art are certainly the epitomy of realism but they might be just a tad expensive. We’d recommend a heavy tippet at the least. No your eyes aren’t deceiving you, French artist Herbert Duprat set some caddis larvae up with pieces of gold, some opals, turquoise and [...]
San Antonio Express – Fly Fishing on Vimeo
Fly fishing as mainstream advertising, usually makes us cringe. Using actors who actually know which end of a rod is which might help. But this ad for the San Antonio Express is a true classic. Trust the Moldy Chum Blog to find it for us more about "San Antonio Express – Fly Fishing on …", [...]
Smallmouth Season Outlook 2009 by Ben Levin
2009 looks very promising for smallmouth fishing. Lots of high water last year made food abundant, and there should be a strong population of bigger, healthy smallmouths. Look for the fishing to pick up over the next two weeks as the warmer weather comes in. THE Journal is a babe in the woods [...]
GRAND OPENING SALE- UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
JOIN US at the Mountain River Fly Shop for our Grand Opening -Sale Under New Management celebration March 19-22. This is a huge move for the Fly Shop, those of us who work here and our huge extended family of passionate fly fishers from across the US. We will have some monster savings for y’all, with [...]
Fishing Report _ 3-14-09
We had to use it again 29″ brown trout going home. Another great week on the White and Norfork, the fish are tremendously fit and powerful. We heard of some nice brookies and rainbows caught on Norfork, and some pig rainbows on the White, overshadowing some nice browns. We down played this pic at the [...]
