Monthly Archives: May 2011
Blue Skies and Blue Eyes
IT’s been a hectic day here in this little corner of the fly fishing world. A pretty steady stream of customers intent on enjoying their Memorial Day fly fishing weekend, cartons of stuff to unpack and put on the walls, a couple of our guide team rolling through, and sunshine streaming through the windows. San Juans, and cicada [...]
Rio New Site
Rio launched a new website earlier this month, and its really worth poking your way through. The Rio site has a pretty cool line selector to help choose the right flyline from their extensive selection, plus videos and a blog. There is also a nice section on proper line cleaning, something we get asked [...]
If you are in the Russellville area on June 20th, stop by the Caddis Fly Fishers club meeting for Chad Johnson’s presentation on ”Four Seasons On The White River” . If you haven’t met Chad he is our senior shop hand and part of our guide team. He will be talking about fishing tactics, rigging, fly selection [...]
Big Dries On Dry Run
BIG fat trout eating big dry flies is about as much fun as you can have, and when the fish are Dry Run Creek fish, you can see why Lynsey’s grin is so big.
TWENTY inches of brown trout on a dry fly is always a solid moment, when its on the White on roughly 7- 8 generators its pretty extraordinary. The big water started yesterday. Two generators are offline on the White, so instead of 8 units of generation we now have about 5 solid units of generation [...]
Welcome To Dally’s Ozark Fly Fisher
WELCOME to the birth of a new fly shop on the White River: Dally’s Ozark Fly Fisher in Cotter, Arkansas. Fly shop buyer & guide Steve Dally and long time White River fly fisher and businesman Jim Dugan acquired the well-known Mountain River Fly Shop earlier this month, and set about creating a fly shop in their [...]
Gentle Flows Continue
The light flows and spectacular fishing on the White River is likely to continue through this week, as major flooding on the Mississippi River pushes past the confluence with the White River. The peak of the flood is expected to crest in Memphis tomorrow morning at 48′, just under the highest flood of all time. [...]
Dry Run Creek Brown Trout
Nic Cobb has done it again. The young Texan “discovered” Dry Run Creek last year and caught a bunch of nice fish including this pig.
