Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Streamer Class
Four drift boats, enough fly rods and sinking lines to start a small fly shop, a battallion of streamers ready to hunt and eight jazzed up fly fishers hit the water early Saturday afternoon. Our first streamer tactics class was ready to roll. The class leader, our bud and virtually full time streamer guide Alex [...]
Some Wading on Norfork
NICE to spend a couple of hours on Norfork Monday afternoon feeling some water around the legs again and bedrock and gravel underfoot. Norfork has been getting a few hours of wadeable water a day during the afternoons, and the fishing is fun as always. Barring further heavy rainfall we can expect these windows to [...]
Al Crise _ You Will Be Deeply Missed
THE Fly Fishing family throughout the South is so much poorer for the passing of Allen Crise MCCI last week. Al was the pied piper of fly casting throughout Tx, Ar, LA, Ok and more, not because he was a Lefty or Joan or Mel, but simply because he was Al, a man with a simple, [...]
FFF Southern Council Video Contest
WE have really enjoying sharing the bounty of the explosion of fly fishing videos over the last 5 years, with some great footage from all over the US and the rest of the world. But apart from some Louisiana and Tx saltwater fly fishing, you don’t find much quality stuff from this part of [...]
Marco and a Nice Streamer Brown
WOKE up to these very cool photos from guide Marc Poulos Friday. Marc was on this past week for a couple of days pitching streamers and scored this very nice 23″ brown. Marc said the fish slammed a Galloup Articulated Fathead, probably one of the most consistent big fish flies we have found over [...]
Wading Boots – We Got ‘Em
Demand far outstripped supply last year and, fair dinkum at times they were scarcer than hen’s teeth. But we now have good stocks of the Simms Rivershed and Freestone Vibram boots in the most popular sizes. We also have good stocks of the Simms HardBite Studs for the Vibram soles for additional traction in [...]
Fishing Report 14-2-2010
Apologies for the late fishing report this week, but we had huge computer problems throught the back end of the week, which cause all sorts of weird goings on, including no email or internet. But on the good side we had reports of a solid push of shad coming through Bull Shoals Dam yesterday which [...]
Mining And Climate Change Impacts on Trout Meetings
The Friend of the North Fork and White Rivers will host a public Forum on Frac-Sand Mining for Natural Gas in Calico Rock on Thursday Feb 18. The Friends newsletter this week also detailed a sportsman conference in Mountain Home on Feb 26 & 27 on the impacts of climate change on Arkansas’ [...]
While You Were On The Couch Photo Essay
A black and white photoessay by Steve on a snowy afternoon on the river. Enjoy the pictures
Reel Recovery One Fly – June 12
We just had word from the Reel Recovery crew that they will be hosting a One Fly Event on the Beaver Tailwater on June 12. Also from Reel Recovery our good mate Ken Richards will be undertaking his second drift boat marathon, over 400 miles of the Akansas River from March 27 to raise funds [...]
A TRIO OF TROPHY BROWNS
The mail that lands in the Journal’s inbox somedays. Just 3 photos and a cryptic note: Steve, The Cotter Cabin Crew caught some more browns this weekend. Here are some of the pics. Thanks, Dennis No sizes, no fly selections, nada. So I had to track down the info myself. Brian [...]
MO Trout Bust 2010
THE 2010 Trout Bust on the Current River in Missouri promises to be a fun weekend for fly fishers and raise fund for Casting For Recovery in that State. Run by “Old Hippies of America” apparently a non-existent organisation trying to help those in need the Trout Bust promises a a weekend of fun, fly-fishing [...]
