Monthly Archives: August 2011
AGFC Monitoring Oxygen Levels
THE ANNUAL low Dissolved Oxygen watch is back on again, with the AGFC having to rejig its restocking program on Norfork already, simply because of poor water quality coming out of Norfork Dam. The situation, as per normal, isn’t as bad on the White but is being closely watched. But it becomes pretty frustrating year [...]
John Berry Farewell’s “A Guide’s Guide” _ Don Adams
John Berry’s Baxter Bulletin column this week is a fine tribute to long-time White River guide Don Adams, who passed last week after a battle with leukemia. Vale Don.
Take A Good Look – Flex Spex
WE found these very cool new readers, the Flex Spex, in New Orleans at the IFTD show, and were blown away at a very cool and simple idea. Its the cold hard truth that all of us are either needing readers for the closeup work with small midges and fine tippet or we are [...]
The Duck
ONE of the first things you learn as a young male in Australia is to laugh at your own foibles; sure as heck everyone else is going to be. Saturday morning, it took a few hours before we could breather freely let alone laugh, even though I’ve had some practice. My father was a deft [...]
Doc Of The Drakes _
Take a few moments and pay attention to the story. It won best Yarn at the Drake Magazine Film Awards in New Orleans, with good reason. You might get excited about the risers, and the the growing tension with every fish, but the words are worth listening to.
Fishing Report 8-25-11
ALRIGHTY, step away from the fat jokes. That rainbow is just big boned. Seriously that is one of the porkiest ‘bows we have seen outside of a shad kill and goes to show how much good the high water flows do for the fish in the system. The picture of that rotund rainbow was [...]
Brown Trout Colors
An interesting post from Davy Wotton following our series of brown trout pics from across the US. You’ll hear occasionally that a particular trout coloration would identify a particular strain of trout, which is true in certain waters overseas. But as Davy points out the US brought in trout from a wide variety of sources [...]
Cast The AWESOME Sage One fly rod
FINALLY we got to crack the box, unwrap the sexy black tubes and head outside with the new Sage One Fly Rods. Just off the truck are the 9’ 5 wt; 6wt and 8wt plus a 10’ 5wt. The 10’ 4wt One and the Euro-nymphing rods we ordered are still under construction. I’d petted [...]
The Color Of Browns _ Clint Wilkinson
MY Phone Beeped yesterday afternoon, signaling an incoming text, it was Clint with a picture. Since Clint has been smoking them for at least a couple of weeks on hoppers I opened up the message to find the above picture. But it was the comment, that really cracked me up, obviously typed in [...]
Midge “Bugnadoes” Causing a Storm
Towering columns of flying midges aren’t exactly uncommon, although still spectacular, on the White River. But some huge towers in Iowa, dubbed “bugnadoes”, have sparked a media and internet storm _ I mean who skips over a headline like “Sex-Crazed Insects Whip Up ‘Bugnadoes’ In Iowa” Life’s Little Mysteries article is less sensation but [...]
