Posted in 1 on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
WHITE RIVER: Water flows are getting higher as the summer heat arrives and we can expect more to come.
Fishing has been very good earlier in the week on the lower flows of 4 units or less but the rapid rise to 6 or 7 units has tended to slow the bite mid to late afternoon.
The [...]
Posted in 1 on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
TONY Spezio truly is a local icon, not only for his fishing, fly tying and rod building knowledge but also his laid back personality, and warm smile.
Tony is one of the good guys and we are very happy for him to be our Featured Fly Tyer this week.
Posted in Articles, Fishing Reports, New Products, journal, tagged fly fishing, demonstration, bass pro on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
The Journal, plus his beautiful translator Bec, warming up the crowd at Bass Pro Oklahoma City, last year.
The Journal will be road-tripping west with a parcel of fly rods and some special hookless flies for some celebrity striped bass. After the fly rod debut in the Bass Pro tank in Oklahoma City, the outdoors giant has [...]
Posted in Articles, New Products, Products, journal, tagged Sage, FLi, 7'6", 5-weight, fly rod on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Thomas McGuane wrote that a fly rod “better have a great reason for being over nine feet or under eight.” And McGuane would be right.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
WE have raved about feltsoul media’s upcoming work “Red Gold” about the critical battle between miners and fishermen, commercial and recreational, over the world’s largest salmon run in Bristol bay Alaska.
And we only saw a preview.
Well at the film’s international debut at the Telluride MountainFilm Festival in Colorado Red Gold won both the Audience and [...]
Posted in Articles, New Products, Products, journal, tagged fly, whitlock, Largemouth Bass, Popper, Fruit Cocktail on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
DAT’S a Big ‘ole Bucketmouth we sent to Larry! Ain’t technology wonderful!.
Well ok, we didn’t exactly ship him the fish, and where would the fun be in that.
But if you notice hanging off the front lip of that hawg is a Whitlock Fruit Cocktail Deer Hair Bass Popper from the Mountain River Fly Shop Web Store.
Larry, [...]
Posted in Articles, Fishing Reports, Fly Tying, New Products, journal, tagged Norfork, fly fishing, trout, White, Wotton, streamers, whitlock on May 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dave Whitlock and Davy Wotton test some new Whitlock streamers while hunting the monster trout of the White and Norfork.
Posted in Fishing Reports, Fly Tying, journal, tagged fishing report, Norfork, River, White on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
White River is the place to be this Memorial Day weekend.
Posted in Articles, Fly Tying, journal, tagged "White River", class, Fly Tying, learn, midge on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
OUR Featured Fly Tyer sessions are gaining momentum as the casual gathering of fly tying knowledge we hoped they would become.
The picture above show’s the casual round table atmosphere, where no question is stupid, and no idea how radical or simple for discussion. People are dropping in for 10 minutes, half an hours and [...]
Posted in Articles, Fishing Reports, journal, tagged "White River", brown, fly fishing on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hollie’s Big High Water Brown
FOR all the very special elements of fly fishing, the feel of a loaded rod as forward cast, the elegance of a mayfly taking to wing, dawn rising on a section of misty White River tailwater, even the satisfaction of a flybox packed with neat rows of winter-tied flies, none captures [...]
