Monthly Archives: April 2011
HIGHER RELEASES FROM NORFORK DAM _ USACE New Release
Midday April 30 Norfork releases raised to 6,600 cfs. Read the full release after the jump.
Back To Bull Shoals
BULL SHOALS Dam was doing its job, hold back the deluge which fell upon the White River basin earlier this week, while Brenda Dugan and her son Alex Cunningham were out on the water together. It was a day on the White at the Dam as per normal, the water was cold and clear, the [...]
Fishing Report _ April 27
Springtime in the Ozarks SPRINGTIME Ozarks: flowering dogwoods and redbuds, caddis on the river, thunderheads in the sky and water. Spring is the rainy season, its just we don’t usually get it all in a week. Since Thursday night Mountain Home has recorded over 10 inches of rain, areas from Harrison west have received over 15″ [...]
Flood Gates Open On Norfork _ AGFC
Just received a statement from AGFC Trout Biologist Jeff Williams that with both generators down on Norfork Dam, flood gates have been opened to control the lake level. The US Army Corp of Engineers, which controls the Dam, is limited spill gate releases to roughly normal generation flows, rather than the massive damaging spill way [...]
Someone Needs To Get Off Their Butt
HOW any writer, still able to pass the eye exam on their drivers’ license, could leave Arkansas off the top 12 fly fishing states in the US is baffling. About the only conclusion you could draw is Field and Stream Blogger Kirk Deeter need to get out more, specifically out of the Rockies and [...]
Fishing Report 4-14-11
WHAT a week its been, good weather and phenomenal springtime fly fishing and some seriously great fish. Ben Levin put one of his fly fishers last week onto this 23″ brown on a guide trip as the first fish of the day. The fish ate a sowbug, a reliable choice between the spring hatches. The [...]
Off The Clock
IF YOU have ever wondered what our hard-working guide team does on their day off you might enjoy this report. Last Friday, the Journal and fellow guide Ben Levin, put together a crew of friends hanging around the shop and hit the caddis hatch and we got to play. Two boats, 5 fly fishers, and enough [...]
White River Browns _ with Clint Wilkinson
REALLY nice report in last night from one of our guide team, Clint Wilkinson. Steve, Here are a few pics from last Sunday. The final total was 13 browns between 16-23 inches and about 60 rainbows all caught on sunday specials. Not too shabby. When you also take into account the seriously nasty, [...]
Fishing Report 4-7-11
A 7lb Bass off Bull Shoals SPRING has sprung in the Ozarks and there an abundance of riches for the fly fisher. Caddis are thick on the river, hillbilly coho are pushing up the rivers and the black bass are turning up on the lake. Such is the life of an Ozark fly fisher [...]
Deluge of Trout
KTLO.COM reports that the looming Federal Budget crisis has forced the Norfork National Fish Hatchery to dump four to six time as many trout into the White and Norfork as would normally be stocked, over the next two days. Hatchery manager Craig Eaton warned that if the stalemate continues for a month future stocking [...]
2011 in Pictures by Kevin Brandtonies
THE Year so far has been spectacular (and is continuing that way) so it was a nice suprise to get a glimpse into our mate and guide team member Kevin Brandtonies days on the river. Well since Kev is one of the good guys with a serious sense of humor, we had no qualms about harassing him into [...]
THE REAL REASON SMALLIES ARE SO MUCH FUN
THE native Ozark smallmouth are a treasure for their sheer beauty, wild habits and their feisty nature. New research from Florida shows that not only do smallie’s use the same tactics as the silver kings but also that tarpon are descended from an ancient “brownie”. According to the report in Midcurrent.com “Bodily, the tarpon exhibits [...]
