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I caught this twenty-two inch brown on Saturday! I floated a stretch of the White with guide Marc Poulos in his drift boat. I hooked it on a size 16 Copper John while sporting my lucky McLellan’s fishing hat! Benny Thanks for the report, Benny, and congrats on a nice brown!

Elizabeth with a NICE Bull Shoals brown trout! With all of the recent low water below Bull Shoals Dam and Norfork Dam, the trout fishing has been absolutely spectacular! We’ve received many reports of one-hundred-plus fish days, including several quality browns, rainbows and cutthroats! The usual scuds, sow bugs and midges are all working well, but also have a good selection of mayfly nymphs and dries, as there are still some sulfurs flying around. Hare’s Ears, Pheasant Tails, Mighty Mays, Skip Nymphs, and Parachute Sulfurs are all good flies to try. Also, try fishing soft hackles like a Partridge and...

The Sulfur Mayfly hatch is in full swing on the White River, with the bugs coming off the water in big, yellow clouds! They are still releasing lots of water from Bull Shoals Dam, so to fish the hatch, line up your boat tight to the bank and cast to rising fish in the eddies and slower current seams along the edges of the river. However, be sure to pay attention! Especially watching fish rise to dry flies, it’s easy to get tunnel-vision and forget to watch downstream for sweepers and other obstructions! Nice fish, Bob! Thanks for the pic!

We fished the Norfork this past weekend, and had some spectacular fishing! We stayed on the White River, but woke up to low water on the Norfork, so since we were dying to fish some low water, we headed to the Fork. We dropped the drift boat in the water, and headed down to McClellans. It was the day of the cutthroat. We caught three very nice cuts, and their colors were truly beautiful. It was one of those days you always hear about but never quite believe--we lost count after one hundred fish. We hooked most of our fish...

Two buddies and I headed out to the White after learning there would be a little low water. Early in the day we figured their eyes would be looking up with all of the caddis hatches that had been coming off, so we started by swinging soft hackles. Unreal fishing! Got some action nearly every cast! I caught a pretty nice brown early on a partridge and green soft hackle. About mid morning there was a little more action on top, so we switched to an elk hair caddis. We didn't have any legitimate rises in the morning, but that...