Monthly Archives: July 2010
Limited Edition Tarpon Finish Ross Momentum LT
ROSS REELS USA is offered a truly unique numbered limited edition issue of its flagship Momentum LT in a tarpon graphic finish. The stunning reels will start shipping early August but demand is likely to be high and with the limited numbers being produced these will be available for a very limited time. To secure your reel [...]
Fishing Report _ July 30
WE are starting to show signs of settling into some regular summer flows like we haven’t seen for several years. If you have been holding off fishing we’ll we reckon this weekend will mark the start of plenty of wading time most days And the fishing has been very very good. In part that is [...]
White River Trout Unlimited Chapter Seeking Officers
THE White River Chapter of Trout Unlimited is seeking volunteers to fill a number of vacancies among chapter officers. The Chapter announced the call in its June/July newsletter delivered last week. These are a great bunch of folks doing some very good work on our rivers, and having a lot of fun doing it. [...]
White River Fly Fishing Report _ 7-22-10
LAST week’s low water spells gave way to some heavier generation this week but the fishing has been very very good. All our guides on the water Chad, Clint, Kevin and Marc has been reporting good days and plenty of fish, particularly when hanging to the lower overnight flows as it moves down the river. [...]
Duane Hada’s Rivertown Gallery Opening
Picture courtesy of Rivertown Gallery WE couldn’t let the opening of Duane Hada’s new Rivertown Gallery in Mountain Home on Saturday night. Duane, a fixture as an artist, guide, fly tyer and all around good guy, has moved from his longtime base in Cotter to a new space close to the town square in Mountain [...]
Vanquish The Toughest Brown Trout
WRITING about the Vanquish reel for my Aussie gear column the term “sexy ugly” came to mind. This is a reel with a purpose in mind, build to conquer and lacking any effete pretentions to prettiness. With its flat gray Hard Alox finish, the Vanquish is brutally beautiful, without trying in the least, in the [...]
Bull Shoals Trophy Brown Trout
IN the Inbox this morning was this really nice Bull Shoals brown trout from one of our recent customers and a brief note. I thought I would pass along a nice picture to add to your impressive online blog, of my buddy’s brown taken at night by the dam on a streamer purchased from your [...]
A Real Nail Knot or a Better Paperclip Knot
MIDCURRENT.com remains one of our favorite places on the web for fly fishing news. Marshall Cutchin has also been adding some pretty solide video content as well, this week we though y’all would like this quick and easy Nail Knot that you could tie on the river with nothing more than a piece of [...]
Hopper Time Is On The Way
THE Journal was walking back into the shop Sunday when we spotted this hopper drawling its way up the brick wall. It’s seemed like something of an omen, and a picture opportunity, given how we have been looking for some hopper action in the past few weeks. We grabbed a handful of Rainy’s Grand [...]
Benny and the Brown
Benny and guide Marc Poulos headed out early Saturday for a beat the heat drift boat trip on the White River. Benny is a regular with Marc and put it simply they smacked them returning mid afternoon to the shop with big grins as the heat really started kicking in. The 22″ brown pictured above [...]
Fishing Report 7-16-10
IT has been a crazy hectic day, a fun day, full of smiling fly fishers who had spent the day getting their kicks on the White River. You shoulda seen the grins. A few of you might be a little ticked at that, we had a couple, who missed out on some more great low [...]
Simms Wading Staff Recall
SIMMS has issued a recall of some of its 2010 Wading Staffs due to a fault in its locking mechanism. The problems with the staff do not affect any wading staff’s sold by the Mountain River Fly Shop as a Simms’s Dealer we though we should inform y’all in case you picked one up somewhere [...]
