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

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