Monthly Archives: March 2011
The Musky Tribe Hits The White
OUR Huge thanks to Musky Country Outfitter’s Brad Bohen for adding a bunch more “frequent driver” miles to deliver a presentation on Wisconsin drift boat musky fishing last night. Brad lit a fuse under the Journal a couple of years back on musky on a fly rod and it was pretty cool seeing him [...]
FISHING REPORT 3-29-11
MARCH is coming to a close and the caddis bite is well and truly on most days, and some much needed rain is returning. Lake levels on Bull Shoals and Norfork are climbing once again, both gaining a foot over the week so far alleviating the drought conditions we had been facing. But for the waders, [...]
STREAMER SEASON 2011
HOPE y’all enjoy our Streamer Season highlights video almost as much as we did making it. This winter the streamer season was spectacular particularly after Christmas, though we scored some very nice pre-Christmas fish with very few people on the water. January started well and kept getting better into February. The up and down nature [...]
One Hungry Brown
Our yankee mate BarryAnalora, sent us this pic last week of a seriously gluttonous brown trout, he and the kids found on the White. Barry and his crew, live just around the corner, and while he’s probably lived in Arkansas long enough to aquire a southern accent we still can’t help give him a hard [...]
A SERIOUSLY great trophy brown for Chad’s fly fisher Dick Ross yesterday from the White River. Now Dick has caught a fish or two, plenty of steelhead and salmon, but we reckon this brown will stay in his memory for a long time. Chad and Dick had fished the lower flows down at Rim, but [...]
Fishing Report _ Sowbug March 2011
ITS SOWBUG eve, the water is off tomorrow and the spring caddis underway, its going to be phenomenal. Not to mention Chad’s flyfisher, on the last of this week’s big water, popped a bigtime 27″ brown on a streamer today, continuing our great run of two-foot plus streamer fish this season. And the tape don’t lie. [...]
The Gunpowder Riverkeeper
A really great article we found on Midcurrent.com about one man’s commitment to stop the spread of didymo OUT of his river. Every week Theaux Le Gardeur and his dog make the rounds of 12 wash station, on Maryland’s Gunpowder River, lugging in salt and making sure wash pans have fresh water for visiting anglers [...]
Arkansas congressional delegation seeks hatchery funding _ KTLO
FROM KTLO.COM Members of the Arkansas congressional delegation have joined the fight to protect funding for the Norfork and Greers Ferry National Fish Hatcheries. The delegation today sent President Barack Obama a letter urging him to consider the positive economic impact of the two hatcheries before cutting over $6 million in U.S. Fish and Wildlife [...]
Pain Free Fly Fishing and Fly Tying
OUR MATE, Trout Unlimited president, Bill Thorne has been featured several times on these pages holding big trout, big rods and like above some nice redfish. Bill knows the sort of punishment we all dish out to ourselves fly fishing and fly tying. So as the principal and Posture Alignment Specialist with Pain Free Ozarks [...]
