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David and Brock, of the U of A Fly Fishing Club, braved the soggy weather and hit the Norfork for some good fishing and a tag team grand slam. Long night, Brock? Dave with a dark brookie. The one and only cutt of the trip. Big brookies munching streamers!

posted in Trout on Thu, September 24, 2009 Camera phone capture of Scott Sanders' 24-inch Brown trout, caught with an egg pattern on a 3 weight. It's getting to be that time, folks!

Intrepid anglers "Bob" and "Dan" went looking for some wild trout recently. Looks like they did pretty well."Bob" with a big brownIn exchange for the nice photos, we agreed not to disclose the location where they caught the fish, though you could probably figure it out if you had a mind to.We're just glad you made it back safely, boys. Thanks for the photos.--Todd

There's a very fat 18.5-inch rainbow behind all those hands.One of our customers had his sons in town this past week and wanted to get them hooked on fly fishing, so we headed over to Bull Shoals. Thursday afternoon we waded Wildcat Shoals in two units of water and worked on casting and technique (and caught some fish). Friday morning we fished below the dam (in the rain) in 2-3 units and caught some nice piggies drifting nymphs, particularly the Guide's Choice Hare's Ear. I'm pretty sure Aaron and Jim caught the fly fishing bug, and hopefully they'll start sticking...

I had a great day on the Norfork on Saturday. We walked in from Ackerman's all the way to the top of the catch and release section and had it to ourselves. I caught fish on everything that I tried...zebra midge, olive scuds (16), sow bugs and did especially well in the moving water on a soft hackle, including a legitimate 18" rainbow. The windwas pretty strong producing a lot of wave action and I ended up throwing a small pine squirrel / marabou streamer under an indicator in black and did best on it. I was only a brook...