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I woke up early Sunday morning, in hopes of catching some low water on the White below Bull Shoals. Over the past week, the dam has been shut off from around midnight until 9 or 10 a.m. This allows for some excellent wade fishing below the dam at first light, and when they turn on, you can hop downstream to Wildcat Shoals, Rim Shoals, Roundhouse Shoals, etc, staying ahead of the high water and continue wade fishing all day. The fishing was excellent on various midges, scuds and sow bugs, especially some great dry fly midge fishing! There are LOTS...

My dad and I floated Crooked Creek above Kelley's slab on Friday and had a very nice day. Fishing was a little slow - maybe due in part to a front that was moving through most of the day - but just consistent enough to keep us focused. We took a few brownies on top water but did most of our damage with Crazy-dads and Clousers fished on a sink tip. Managed to land this 16+" bruiser on a tan and white Clouser. All in all it was a great day on the water. There's something about floating an Ozark...

As evidenced by these photos from recent guide trips with Forrest Smith, the smallmouth and high-water trout fishing has been superb lately! In spite of all the high water on our tailwaters, the dry fly fishing has been very good with big cicada patterns! The smallmouth rivers are in great shape, and the post-spawn fish have been hammering Clouser Minnows, Wiggle Minnows and various crawdad patterns! To see more big fish pics, check out Forrest’s Facebook Page or his website.

Thanks for bringing the Fly Fishing Film Tour to us; it was great! Yesterday this Little Red River hook jaw chomped down on a size 10 March Brown. Randy G. The F3T was a blast! Almost as much fun as hooking a big hook-jaw brown on a dry fly! Thanks for the pic and the report!

I just did one of those fish calculators that use length and girth to estimate weight. It was 28.75" long and estimated weight is 16-18 pounds. I caught it on the Norfork River on a size 16 Zebra Midge using 6X tippet. Dan M. Wow, Dan, congratulations on an AWESOME brown, and on 6X tippet to boot! Thanks for the pic and the report!