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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!

Over the past two weekends, there has been a significant amount of low water on all of our White River System Tailwaters, and as a result, we have been receiving several excellent fishing reports! For instance, Brock hooked this massive, twenty-eight inch brown while throwing big streamers at night! Congratulations, Brock, on an awesome fish—I think I know where you’ll be this weekend!

Visited the Little Red River for the weekend and had two great days of fishing! This time of the year, the name of the game is small and slow. We fished some pretty tight water with small flies, size 20 olive midges and Red Ass soft hackles. The shoals and riffles were pretty crowded with other anglers, so we fished the less obvious holding water, concentrating on the slower moving holes and deeper water. For more information on our trip visit our website tosfly. Mike, thanks for all the advice on the Little Red�it all paid off! Justin F. Thanks...