Monthly Archives: May 2009
Davy Wotton’s Davy Knot _ Video
From our good mate and custom fly designer Davy Wotton, come the Davy Knot. Its a 100% not that ties very easily once you get it down. Davy also offered some tips on tying his knot on John Wilson’s Fly Fish Arkansas and Missouri Board There is one major point to remember when you snug the [...]
Kid’s Fishing Derby _ June 13
The 2009 Norfork Kids’ Fishing Derby will be held Saturday, June 13th at Quarry Park below Norfork Dam. It is free to all participants 15 years and under. Registration starts at 8:00 a.m., and fishing begins at 9:00 a.m. Click Here For an Registration Form you can download print out and take along to speed your registration. [...]
FISHING REPORT _ 5-27-09
The White River has been low and fishing hot and we are getting good reports off Norfork.
Duane Hada Painting at Our Family Fun Day
DUANE Hada will be unveiling a bunch of new works out our Family Fun Day on June 20. As well as being one of our mates, and our local smallmouth guru, Duane is a serious artist. His crawdad fly is another work of art. You may have seen his works in the shop, or on [...]
Why Roosters Drive Me Nuts
HUGE Kudos to whoever was running the camera for the Moldy Chum Blog crew at this point. In 48 seconds of video (well actually about 1 in the whole 48) sums up just how cool these fish are. Just how fast, those dorsals, wow. Man I wanna go back bad I still want a big one [...]
Nymph Fishing Video From Midcurrent
HADN’T had a technique video for a few weeks and found this one from Midcurrent.com. The clip part of Rick Hafele and John Smeraglio’s “Advanced Nymph Fishing” shows John demonstrating a hinged-leader and strike indicator technique for drifting a single nymph at a constant depth. A perfection loop connects tippet to leader, with the indicator [...]
Sea Run Silver
THIS photo from Davy Wotton brought back some nice memories from back home. Davy emailed the Journal this pic of his mate Andrew Roynon with this really nice sea run brown trout from his home waters, in the Welsh they are known as a Sewin.
Old Friends With Clint
Two of Clint Wilkinson’s good friends and regular fly fishers George and Janet were back for an annual summer trip last week. Janet picked up this really nice brown on a sculpin pattern at Cane Island. George found this really fat rainbow at Bull Shoals on one of Clint’s Black Tungsten Midges. have [...]
THE KEEN RANGE
KEEN sandals and shoes have become a staple for all our folks since we introduced the range last year. And judging by y’alls response youhave been pretty happy with them too. Sitting in the back office getting unpacked right now are more Keen sandals, flip flops and slides, some new colors and styles. This [...]
Marco’s Day Off
THIS is the smallie that Marco got called in all excited about. Marc had a break from guided so what to do in spring, go fishing. That is one nice smallie. The small mouth are in really nice condition, but the persistant rain has been keeping the Creeks high and muddy with all too rare [...]
The Journal Speaks In Texas
WE will be travelling to Sherman, Tx, next week to speak to the Red River Fly Fishers Club, courtesy of an invitation from Jack Janco. Jack and his wife Mary-Kay fished with me last year, as you can see above, a fun day. It will be my first trip down to the Sherman Club. If you [...]
Fishing Report _ 5-21-09
Expect some very easy fishing flows this weekend for Memorial Day on the White and wadeable water on Norfork. SMALLMOUTH STOP PRESS: Just had a call from Marc Poulos who did the guides day off thing by going fishing _ for smallies on a small tributary stream and did very well. He too reports that [...]
