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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

Made a trip to Ackerman access on the Norfork this morning since the White river is still too high for wade fishing (at least for us old guys). It was pretty slow early and then about mid morning things picked up. Caught 4 nice cutthroats, 1 brown and a handful of rainbows. Was fishing a Y2k with a ruby midge dropper and all the cutts took the Y2k and the rainbows the midge. Saw a good midge hatch and a few caddis coming off also. Can't wait for a good caddis hatch. Here's a pic of a couple of the better cuts.... This post has been promoted to an article

They are running lots of water right now... all 8 units and 24k cfs 24/7 the last few days. The guides are saying good streamer fishing for browns, but I wouldn't trust my boat handling skills in that much water.

Good lookin fish.

Made a trip to Ackerman access early this morning hoping to beat the predicted wind. I had planned to fish the area downstream from the access but that plan quickly changed as the water was too high from backflow of the White river, which has been running water bigtime 24/7 for last few days. I had to walk up above the first island to get away from the high water. Fishing was pretty good with 4 cutthroats, 2 browns and about a dozen rainbows. Fished an egg pattern with a ruby midge dropper. Wind really started to crank around 10:00 so I called it a day shortly thereafter. Here's a pic of a pretty cutthroat... This post has been promoted to an article

We can thank C&R for that.

Very nice fish. Jeremy certainly knows that river!

I just use 6 feet of 8lb mono for the leader and then 6x fluorocarbon for the tippet. Reason being is that you easily slide your strike indicator up and down the non tapered leader. I use this rig to make the indicator easier to slide without kinking the leader... https://www.deneki.com/2014/08/adjustable-indicator-rigs/

Great looking boat. Love the color scheme.

Wow, some really nice trout! I'd love to have a day like that. Good going guys. wo