Ice Storm

This weekend marks, for many people, the opening of the 09 trout season, so the timing of this weeks Ice Storm could not have come at a worse time.
Most of the region is still without power, most of Cotter. Mountain Home, Bull Shoals and Norfork.
And there aren’t any easy answers as to when it will [...]

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Ice Storm

Sitting here watching limbs break off trees around the Journal’s home. We have had about an inch of ice overnight and more coming. It seems this is a case of waiting for when the power will go out not if. So the Journal this week is pending, shall we say.

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Monday Pictorial _ Jan 25, 09

SOMETIMES it pays off to get out of the water and just lay in the grass. In ‘02, I spent several days out on the back end of Kodiak Island chasing King Salmon for an article for Flylife magazine. The water was low and the fishing relatively slow, but with a limited time schedule and [...]

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Flyline Selection

Ooops

Y’all probably know the name Bruce Richards, he was here at the ‘07 Conclave, as one of the world finest fly casters and fly casting instructors. But Bruce is also the fly line guru at Scientific Anglers.
Having been reading and writing about fly fishing for almost 15years I’m getting pretty selective in my dotage about who and [...]

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Friday DJ – Eddie Vedder

A great fall day floating on the White with my youngest on the oars, it was a lazy float for fun not fishing, hence the Eddie Vedder.

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Where’s my Camera.

 It is said that of you want to catch a trophy fish leave the camera, or the net at home. When Steve Fisher caught this chunky brown a couple of weeks back on the river with Davy Wotton, it was right. Davy actually had left his camera at  home. Thank goodness for cell phones.

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Rockbridge _ An escape from high water

It was 11 degrees last Friday when we drove down the hill into a snow covered carpark and big flakes were still falling. There’s only 1 good reason to be out in such conditions and big trout was it.
Chad, his cousin Tony and the Journal had been tempted across the border into Missouri by Justin [...]

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Fishing Report: 1-21-09

 Great fishing on the White this week, and Norfork is a goodbet for an Arkansas grand slam on “twigs”

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The Last Days of the Pacific Salmon

Amazing footage of Pacific Salmon spawning rituals, filmed by Manu Esteve from the University of Toronto.
Enjoy

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Snug As A Bug

BACK in the dayI grew up in the Great Southern Ocean, surfing  all year round. Winter storms would push the swells up from the Antarctic, big gray and cold. Several times we surfed with snow in the air or ice on the ground, we spent a lot of the time wet.
My saviour was a hoody, [...]

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Wet Fly Master Class – 2 Spots Left

We still have 3 spots available for Davy’s Wotton’s Wet Fly Master Class this Sunday (Feb 22). Learn all the techniques to tie classic winged wets and soft hackles. Hooks and all materials provided.
All you need to bring is your vice, lamp and basic tools including bobbins, scissors, hackle pliers and a dubbing needle. Price [...]

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The Fishmobile has a Name.

Y’all made us chuckle, guffaw and laugh till the tears rolled down our faces. Y’all are some funny beggars.
But  Thanks to everyone who came out to play on naming Jim’ Rogers’ Fishmobile, we had better than 20 responses both here and on the Fly Fish Arkansas and Missouri Bulletin Board. Jim called into the shop [...]

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