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I see many of the local fly fishing guides on the White river using Topwater boats and 40 hp Mercury Jet engines. They seem to run very shallow and look very well made. Most of them are rigged with a rowing station in the middle and are very maneuverable. I have a 17/48 Blazer Sport with a 25 Merc Jet and it works great for me, but you don't see many down here in Arkansas. They are made for the Missouri spring fed rivers like the Current, Eleven Point and North Fork of the White. I basically use it as a taxi to access wade fishing areas. The Xstream boats look great also. Don't think you would go wrong with either of these.

Went to the Norfork this morning and had a few midges hatching early and then more caddis and a few Sulphur mayflies around mid morning. Caught some nice rainbows and this brown and a few snake river cutties, no Bonnevilles today.

Went back to Ackerman this morning and the caddis hatch was pretty slim. I think it is about over for the year at least on the Norfork. Caught a few on caddis dries and a crackleback stripped back. Finally went back to the egg/ruby midge combo and caught this pretty Bonneville.

Snake river cut..

Decent rainbow...

Went to Ackerman access this morning and the caddis were coming up, but not as much as the last couple of weeks. Still had a decent day with a good number of rainbows and this nice Bonneville and a couple of Snake River cutts. They were hitting caddis dries mid morning and then a green body crackleback on the swing and stripped back.

Great trip Ham! I've got to try some lake fishing, if I can break away from the trout. Just too many things to do up here.

They were yesterday.

Here's one more that apparently has a good appetite ...

Since it turned out to be such a pretty day, I took a quick trip up to the White river after lunch. They turned the water off at noon so it was low when I got there. As soon as I got out of the truck I could see fish rising fish everywhere and lots of caddis flying. Caught a nice brown on my second cast. For about 2 hours it was a fish or a strike every other cast (all on dry flies). Probably caught 30-40 rainbows and a couple smaller browns. The hatch slowed down around 3 so I headed home. Here's a couple pics of the better browns.... This post has been promoted to an article

Fished Monday, Tuesday and today on the White in different areas. The caddis hatch was really on Monday and Tuesday and then only a few hatching today. Fishing was great during the hatches with elk hair caddis dries and soft hackles in the surface film doing the trick. I wasn't counting but probably had 40-50 on Monday and Tuesday, but only a handful today. I did luck out and manage one nice brown today along with 7 or 8 rainbows. Here's a picture of the hatch from Dally's blog....

Phil, check out this picture of the caddis on the White from Dally's blog.... https://ozarkflyfisherjournal.wordpress.com/2018/04/18/low-water-caddis-no-lie/

Are you seeing any caddis coming off? I fished the White river yesterday and today and the caddis were really swarming. Did well on Elk Hairs and soft hackles. Actually had to keep brushing them off my sunglasses.

Why Budlight??? with all the great Mexican beers???? Good luck on the fishing.

The COE opened 5 flood gates @ 1foot this morning for a total release of 6,172 cfs, which is about equivalent of 2 turbines running full power. Apparently 1 turbine is offline for maintenance so the spillway gates were opened to draw the lake down.

They seem to have better coloration than the triploids.

That's a pretty brown! Probably not a triploid???.

Nice fish. Was it a triploid?

Wife and I went to Ackerman Access this morning at 11 after the water came down. Quite a crowd there when we arrived due to Spring Break and the Sowbug roundup this weekend in Mountain Home. We hiked a bit to get away from the crowds and found some pretty good fishing. She caught a nice rainbow right away and I lucked out and got my personal best cutthroat @ 21.5". Fished the usual egg/ruby midge dropper and the Cutties took the egg and rainbows seemed to like the midge. Here's a few pics...

Yes but that's money well spent. Nothing better than getting them involved in the great resource we have here.

We had our daughter and granddaughter visiting for Spring break the last couple of days. This morning the water on the White was finally down to minimum flow so I took my daughter wade fishing at the Cotter access. I knew the water would come up about 9:00 so we had a short window to fish. She hasn't fly fished before but got the hang of it pretty quick She caught 4 or 5 and missed a bunch due to being a bit slow on the hook set. I hooked this nice brown and handed the rod off to her about halfway thru the fight. He made 5 jumps clearing the water and we had to chase him downstream about 50 yards. This post has been promoted to an article