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Our Alaska Wilderness Safari trip was a huge success this past September! This was our fourth hosted trip to the AWS Camp, and the fishing, the scenery, the helicopter flights—the whole experience was just as thrilling as our first trip! Epic really is the best word to describe it! If you are interested in joining us on our fifth hosted trip to the AWS Camp in September of 2017, we still have a few open spots. Call or email us at the shop, and we can fill you in on all of the details. Now for some of our pics:...

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We knew it was a gamble going steelhead fishing this late in the season, and just like what usually happens when I gamble, we lost! The first three days were perfect conditions—lows in the low 40’s, highs in the 50’s with water temperature hovering just above 50-degrees—and the fishing was decent too, swinging up a fish a day, but only landing one. No worries, I thought, I’ve got another ten days on the water, and the fishing only gets better further downstream…but then the bottom fell out. Before Winter Storm Bozeman, we filtered our water outside, but after, we had...

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Dave, his daughter Ashton and I started the holiday weekend off right with a float on the Elk River, and the smallmouth didn't disappoint! Dave with a nice smallmouth that jumped completely out of the water and took his Wiggle Minnow on the way back down! It was Ashton's first time to chase smallmouth with a fly rod, but she got the hang of it pretty quickly! Ashton with her first smallmouth bass on a fly rod--congrats Ashton, well done! The river was in great shape and relatively uncrowded (at least by Elk River standards), so we took our time...

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Category_Fishing Reports, Trout -

Dave and I camped on the Norfork recently and got into some great dry fly fishing! The crane flies were coming off and the trout were definitely looking up! One of several nice cutthroats we caught on dry flies. Dave fishing in the early morning fog. The fishing was great...and so was the eating! A nice Norfork rainbow. We also hooked several nice browns! We were just a brook trout shy of a grandslam! Cutthroats love to eat dry flies!

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Category_Fishing Reports, White Bass / Stripers -

In addition to some nice white bass, I hooked a small hybrid and striper today. Sadly, I also watched a couple of bait fishermen keep at least double their legal limit of hybrids (which is 3 per day, hybrids and striped bass combined for Beaver Lake), and I would've called the Arkansas Game and Fish Poaching Hotline (1-800-482-9262), but I went for an unintentional swim this morning and soaked my phone.

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