Fishing Report Update- 11-1-09

Well the unbridled pessimism of earlier in the week has seemed to evaporate as the water temp on the White drops and the fishing improves. Norfork should improve too with a boost to the DO levels from midweek when maintenance was being performed on one of the two generators.
Marc Poulos was in last night and [...]

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Friday DJ – Apocalyptica

Welcome to the start of some regular weekly features here on the Journal, the first being Friday music, to help you get through the last day of the week before heading off to fish. Hopefully you will be humming these tunes while you catch fish all weekend.
Our first in this series [...]

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FISHING REPORT – 10-29-08

 
 
Water temperatures on the White appear to have peaked, and oxygen levels are back above 4ppm, some positive signs for the river and the fishing, and we heard that the fishing was better on the White yesterday.
For the past week there had been lots of concerns over the state of the rivers high temperatures on the White [...]

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Misty Morning Hop with Davy

Our Welsh mate Davy Wotton is normally somewhat businesslike in his regular reports, not exactly prosaic but usually straight to the point. Not this week as we got descriptions and photos of the morning mist drifting across the tailwater, before we got down to some nice trophy trout photos and the meat of the report. So [...]

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Kelly Galloup on Streamer Fishing – Podcast

 You may have read here before about some of Kelly Galloup’s expertise when it comes to streamer fishing. Of course Kelly also gave a well attended class at Conclave this year.
But if you missed it, here is a podcast with Kelly from Zach Matthews’s Itinerant Angler website.
Here’s Zach’s promo of the interview:
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Kelly Galloup is the [...]

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Fly Tying Video – The Y2K

Love it or hate it there is little doubt that the Y2K catches fish and fishermen. This may well be Arkansas’ State fly on popularity alone. The Journal has probably tied more dozen’s of these than we care to admit, and keep getting asked how to demonstrate it.
So the second in the series of our [...]

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Tarpon – The Dinosaur Fish

Great video we found courtesy of Pete at the Fishing Jones Blog from the National Geographic channel program “Hooked: Fish Gone Wild“. Our interest in what some describe as the world’s largest herring was piqued earlier this year by guide Clint Wilkinson, who came back from Florida with some very nice piccies and virtually [...]

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BUSTED FLY RODS

Great article on the American Angler website, a must read for anyone who has broken a fly rod, or the rest of you who are yet to break a fly rod Click for the article Busted. I’ve had 5 repaired, the first 3 were all my own stupidity. One boat cooler, one car door and [...]

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Project Healing Waters on The White.

Project Healing Waters is something we have enormous respect for, a program to help wounded veterans heal through fly fishing. Seven wounded veterans are spending several days this week on the White and Norfork and there was a great article in the Baxter Bulletin this morning. Gary and Paula Flippin at Rim Shoals Resort have [...]

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South By Sea – Mychael & Jeff Danna

A little musical bonus this week from Mychael & Jeff Danna from the album ”A Celtic Tale”

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Fishing Report – October 23

White River and Nofork fishing well if you are persistant

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Davy’s Sowbug

THIS little fly has been really good over past months, but actually getting the recipie and photos in the one place has been more of a headache. But forget our logistics issues here is the recipie for Davy’s Sowbug, as tied by Teresa “T-Bird” Van Winkle

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