White River (below Bull Shoals Dam)

I had the opportunity of fishing a few days ago with a great friend of mine, John Bass. John is a fellow Arkie native that resides between Northwest Arkansas and Bull Shoals. He's a true purveyor of all things fish, and a story teller extraordinare. He also brought his long time friend Dave Wendell along for the ride. The banter throughout the day consisted of: fish, ducks, why the Razorbacks are ridiculously good at everything, how Longhorn fans are actually closet Razorback fans, and unrelenting "ribbing" of everyone in the boat. Great fun was had by all.

Fishing was great. Nymphing predominated the day, but great dry fly opportunites presented themself in the afternoon. Fish ate the more techy foam bug stuff and the occassional hopper. Nymphing consisted of little baetis stuff, midges, and micro dirt snakes (san juan worms).

Flows were pretty consistent in the 4,000 cfs range until the big bump in the afternoon.

Note: There is now a new food source in the river. Its, big, its ugly, it floats, and it draws some pretty big fish to the surface from out of the wood works. It will probably go for two more weeks....and I happen to have a few openings during this time.

Forrest Smith

Trout and Timber Outfitters

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White River (below BSD)

Sorry I haven't posted another report in quite a while. Things have been hectic trying to get the main site up, all the while chasing some major hatches, and laying the smack down on unsuspecting trout on foam and rubber legs.

No smallie trips this month yet, but we've been slammed by a mid summer pig wallering rain so the rivers have come back up and will be floatable for a while after the mud pushes out.

All trips as of late have been out of Mountain Home on the White. Fish have been smacking foam on the back end of our Sulphur hatch on the sunny days. Bumper crop caddis hatches are still going late in the evening (and will continue till probably September) in the really buggy stretches. Big fish are still coming up on them. I've seen several two footers surfing on them, had anglers stick them. Smaller line, bigger flows, and bigger fish have proved a bit daunting for most anglers. Video below of some of the action

note: The angler, Randy, may look familiar from the last post. This was a completely different trip. It was so good a week and a half prior that he wanted to do it again.

For the nympho heads.... good numbers of fish are being caught on midges (it doesn't matter what color, they're all good...thread and a bead), small san juans, scuds, and baetis nymph stuff. Nocturnal stones should be out starting this week down river so the Pat's rubber legs and other Stoney nymphs can drum up some bigger bites.

River has had drastically varying flows. I've seen 75 cfs-24,000. We just had that 4 day rain so they should push some water for the next few weeks. Big water and drying conditions make for some awesome cicada and cricket bug fishing.

Main site is almost done so keep looking for it at www.troutandtimber.com .

Forrest Smith

Trout and Timber Outfitters

(479)684-9189

www.troutandtimber.com