Monthly Archives: May 2010
Smallmouth Bass With Duane Hada
After our earlier posting of Jody’s pictures of smallmouth bass fishing with Duane Hada, another of our regular readers Bill Barksdale sent us this You Tube video of fly fishing for smallies with Duane himself. Bill has a friend, Alan McClure who is making these outdoor videos for mobile phone/device distribution through the Sprint Network. You [...]
Another convert is born
What a trip last weekend for first time fly fisher Rachael from Nashville. Not only her first fish but also this tremendous 20″ rainbow from Bull Shoals. She and her husband were out with guide Marc Poulos and had a great afternoon at Bull Shoals. Sounds like a new convert.
Trophy Smallies And New Rods Make Big Grins
Jody Smotherman, the fish and the rod HAD a nice email from regular customer Jody Smotherman land last week. Not only was he happy with the Sage Launch he had purchased (at a heck of a deal) from us for a smallmouth adventure with our buddy and Ozark smallie guru Duane Hada, but he had [...]
Fishing Report _ 5-28-10 Low Water and the Bugs Are Popping
THERE is just something about mayflies that floats my boat. The sturdy tanklike proportions of the nymphs, the graceful flotillas of duns and the dancing ephemeral flight of the spinners. I could continue all misty eyed and poetic but ya’ll are more interested in the fishing. We have low water, and the sulphur hatch is ON! [...]
Congrats to Jen and Chris on a new Fly Fisher
A big congratulations for Jennifer and Chris Fowler on their new baby girl, who arrived in their life today. Knowing those two we can guess that the young princess is already dressed in pink and waving a flyrod. Great news for these two, and we are sure to see plenty of the youngster who [...]
Phenomenal Fishing at Bull Shoals
GREAT few days of fishing at Bull Shoals Dam, capped off by this gorgeous rainbow, caught and released by Tom Jett, fishing with Chad Johnson. This trophy ‘bow taped in at 20″ by 12″ thought the numbers don’t really to justice to how fat it was and how solid it was. After Wednesday night’s [...]
Fishing Report 5-19-10
GREAT fish caught by Chad Johnson during last week’s low water caddis mayhem. Chad slipped out of the shop last week for a couple of hours with our TFO, Waterworks Lamson and Umpqua rep Banning Collins for a little work time onthe river. The boys did well as you can see. It was fun while [...]
New C + F Waterproof Fly Boxes
THIS Fly box from C&F Design might just become our favorite of them all. The new M-Size CF-2508F fits great into vests, pack and your shirt or shorts pockets, but packs a 752 fly capacity into its small size Eight rows of microslit foam on 4 pages and at $69.95 they aren’t cheap. But they last [...]
Norfork Pictorial Report from Kevin Brandtonies
SOME nice pictures arrived in our inbox late last night courtesy of guide Kevin Brandtonies after a good trip onto the rejuvenated Norfork Tailwater. The Norfork had been shut off earlier in the day, we waded all morning, these were caught on 2 full units. Most of our guide team had avoided Norfork in [...]
Outbounds back in stock
The Rio Outbound Short WE have just unpacked new stocks of the Rio Outbound Short and Outbound Tungsten Custom fast sinking flylines for streamer tossing on trophy trout on the White and Norfork. Everytime we get these in they fly out the doors. The Outbound Short has become the go to streamer line for several [...]
“They say that man has evolved. Fishing disproves it.”
What sends a person away from the comforts of his hard-earned home to fight insects, rain, cold, and other disasters in the name of fishing? NICK Lyons classic 1972 article for Field & Stream magazine now republished online here. Thanks to Midcurrent.com for the link.
