Monthly Archives: January 2010
Fishing Report 1-28-10
Our fishing over the last week has been a little disrupted what with the Tye-A-Thon prelude and aftermath but some of our buddies got out and popped a few fish. Rob Rummel, of the the Tye-A-Thon tyers, with two friends did really well on Sunday with several good browns streamer fishing on the White. This [...]
Streamer Class _ One Spot Left + Some River Accomodation
WE have one spot left vacant in our streamer class on February 20th under the guidance of Michigan based streamer guide Alex Lafkas. Spend half the day in a classroom session including a fly tying demo and half a day on the river with one of our drift boat guides all for $200. Click here [...]
THE SHAD KILL
ONE of most anticipated events on the White River calendar is almost upon us and anticipation is in the air. The portents and omens look good, very very good indeed indeed eerily close to last year’s pattern which fed a monster month long shad kill. First off you need the shad, and a high water [...]
Off The Grid _ Memories of Summer Video
We always enjoy RA Beattie’s films, and this clip from his latest project “Off the Grid” will take you back to the joys of summer as we battle through the winter storm due this weekend. Here’s what RA has to say We are currently shooting and editing our new film titled “Off the Grid.” [...]
A Huge Thank You for Making The Tye-A-Thon A Success
A HUGE thanks to all of you who came along, brought food, purchased raffle tickets, sent in donations and tied flies for Saturday’s Tye-A-Thon for the Tiffany Johnson Benefit. Incredibly we raised over $3500 for the Benefit, plus tied a bunch of flies (and received a swag of other items) for the Benefit Online Auction [...]
White and Norfork Webcams
WE have mentioned a few times over the past couple of years the availability of Webcams to enable you to checkout river and weather conditions in real time. Well we finally got around to pulling them all together into one easy location here . You can check out conditions in the catch and release [...]
Fishing Report – 1-21-10
LAST weekend was a hoot for a bunch of folks with some big browns and a bunch of browns coming to hand on streamers and drift rigs. But the new week signalled a shift in generation flows, with some lower overnight and middle of the day flows. Bull Shoals lake is now down to [...]
Brown Trout Fever – Texish Troutin’ Photo Essay
IF you are a Texas redfisher and the Gulf Coast is blownout cold and nasty where do you head; the White River and some brown trout mayhem of course. John Boatwright and his buddies Kevin Vincent and Greg Gardiner have known each other a long time. John and Kevin fish the reds regularly Greg is [...]
28″ of Gold On A Streamer
John Boatwright wanted something big, and yellow on the end of his streamer line last weekend but this probably wasn’t in his wildest dreams. We filled you in on John’s trip with his friends to the White River last weekend. But we thought this capture deserved some special attention. Marc Poulos was floating John down a [...]
Gabe and Clayton score Big Browns
Gabe Levin and Clayton Murphy nailed a pair of 24″ browns on streamers late last week to start off the 2010 streamer season in fine style. Gabe was fishing with our mate and erstwhile smallmouth-guru-in-training Ben on Wednesday. Gabe was tossing a leadeyed double bunny of his own design when it was slammed by this [...]
FISHING REPORT – 1-14-10
Wayne started the day yesterday on a guide trip with the Journal by remarking he hadn’t caught a brown trout in “I don’t know how long” . It took about 30 minutes and he nailed the first, this gorgeous White River brown pictured above. This brown taped out at 20″ and would finish the day [...]
