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Fished the Dam area early last week. Water was off in the am, then cranked it up after lunch. I've never fished the Dam area at minimum flow out of my little skiff, It's a prop so had to be a bit careful. I got a little over confident and put a nice ding in the hull from a shallow rock. Fishing was pretty good to a little slow, best bug was a size 22 midge. Small gray scud also produced. When the water cranked up, we tried banging the banks with a big Bangtail Streamer, had one take a swipe at it, but not much else. Made a video of a good size brown caught on the size 22 midge.

Just missed you, fished Monday and Tuesday, love the White.

@netboy What size, color and style of scud did you throw? Apologize for being so nosey

@Daryk Campbell SrInteresting, thanks for sharing.

@ollie Love to hear about the trip, especially how you targeted them.

@BilletHead Thanks for watching, It's hard to beat the hybrid tug

It's the time of year where Wipers start to put there feed bags on, here's a video of a recent trip to Clinton Lake in Kansas.

@Quillback I did not find much info either. Did take a tour and found out they have lots of fish farms for Trout and Salmon and they are the leading export of trout apparently the US imports a lot of it. The fish farms are in the Fjords with big circular nets that float on top and attached at the bottom. The water is brackish with salt water on the bottom and fresh on top. It's cool and gin clear everywhere. Took a train through the mountains, the water was unbelievable, reminded me a lot of the pacific Northwest. Train stopped at a high mountain rugged cabin and hotel catering to hikers/campers/bikers, right by an alpine lake, asked one of the conductors about fishing, he said yes, it's good 4 months of the year. Arctic char and Grayling are also prevalent. I do think it could be a hidden treasure, just need to do some more digging. I don't know if you know who Mike George is? He is a master fly tyer in Kansas City, works at K and K fly shop in KC. World renown for his deer hair creations. Was talking with him before we left for Norway. Mustad Hooks are from Norway, and in the mid 2000's they had fly tying contests where anyone could enter. He entered and won like ten years in a row, so they invited him over. They rolled out the red carpet and took fishing, he said it was great. No official guides, but took him to some places to fish, said it was great. However, could not really remember where. It's hard, the names of places are long Here's a link to Mike's site, it talks a little about the contest he won. http://www.deerhairsculptures.com/

Great pics, camera seems to be serving you well.

Thanks for reading and the comments

@FishnDave Flew to Stockholm, then flew to Tromso. Flew into Bergen from Tromso, still here, heading to Oslo next by train, Like this country!

@Quillback Great question. No license required at all for saltwater. Most of the river and streams are open to fish, you just need one type of license for freshwater. Lots of available non private water to fish. I'm thinking this is a under the radar fishery. Salmon, trout, pike. I believe the population of Norway is around 5 million, yes just 5 million. When driving up into the mountains, people where just pulled over in caravans camping, Lots and lots of water in Norway, did not see any type of restriction or barriers to access.

Here are pics of my wife and the Beer Jigging .. and Snagging BOO! Below Deck Beautiful views...

On a trip to Norway, and one of our stops was Tromso Norway. It's in the Arctic latitude, and got to do some fishing so thought a report would be justified. Here's our location. Before getting to the fishing report, wanted to post some pics of the Northern lights we saw. First time for me. We drove up into the mountains to eliminate light pollution from the city. Very close to the finish border. It was worth the drive. Now to the fishing. Tromso is a fishing port, I believe Sig Hanson from the Deadliest Catch TV show fished for crab in the area. Interestingly I could not find many guides or fishing charters available. Norway is in general a very fishy place, Salmon, Sea run brown trout, mountains with trout. So when I got to Tromso I found one fishing specific store, Had some fly tying material, reels and some spey rods. Talked with a young man running the place who was an avid fly fisherman. He told me about some epic fly fishing in the mountains, miles upon miles, actually he said Kilometers, of fishable streams and rivers. I asked about guiding opportunities, not a lot of guiding in Norway, locals like to DYI it and not pay the money. Guessing tourism does not bring enough demand. However, I found a fishing Charter in Tromso. Pretty unique, it does not require any skill per se, but you get a boat ride on the Hermes II which is a 1907 trawler made out of wood. They take you into the fjords and find schools of shad coalfish , Cod, haddock, and sometimes halibut. They charter year round and in the fall/winter giant Cod make there way into there waters. Also, they cook up the fish you catch for dinner on the cruise back to the docks. Here are some pics. Here's the Hermes II So, fishing gear and technique was part snagging part catching. Big heavy rod, giant spoon with treble hook and looked like a plastic worm/swim bait, looked like a 1/0 or 2/0 hook. Captain would just find schools on the bottom with radar, then we would drift over them. They instructed us to get to bottom, 4 cranks up then start jigging. Many where just snagged, but some where caught fair, not much of a fight with the gear, would love to have some full sinking link with a big clouser and just drifted over them, they where 20 to 30 meters deep at times. Like I said, type of fishing for anyone. The picture below is a fair caught Cod with my wife. They had their own beer made, and it was tasty, and my wife joined me, she is a good sport. The crew cleaned the fish, and to get a shock value, resuscitated a fish heart by rubbing it On the way back, the crew cooked up the fish, and served with crackers, lots of bones, but tasty. The people of Norway like Americans, everyone is very nice, most menus and signage has an english version. Most citizens are bilingual. On a side note if you are into true WW2 movies. There is a movie called "the 12th man", very good, and it takes place in Tromso, during WW2. I'll reply to this post with a couple more pics. IMG_5162 3.HEIC

@Dutch

Was out Sunday water off sun bright and high in the sky, about noon, even some boat traffic. Fished hopper just below tennis courts to narrows, pretty good bite, 3 decent size to boat one close to 20", couple off, I'm thinking the cicadas hatch Phil mentioned the other day on one cast might have them fired up a bit. Nothing, not even a look, below fall creek bluff blank, did not even hear or see blow ups, but definitely hearing and seeing them up in trophy section. Guessing if your getting blowups on a bluff bank with some shade a deeper drops, bet it could be good. Also, thanks @Phil Lilley for the snow cone pattern midge. (size 18, black thread body, red wire, white tungsten bead). It out performed the red and black copper midge on my trip I had Saturday. I was pre fishing Friday and Phil was killing them with the pattern, I believe it was an overcast day. You can see it in action on Fridays (8/30) one cast. Also, I think he has some in the shop. Sunday the midge activity was crazy up by the narrows, but they would not buy what I was selling, could not get them to eat any midge, size or color, thinking they just had to much to forage and keyed in on the real thing.

I'm going to try and make it this year, thanks for organizing.

I chase Hybrids a lot with an 8 weight using full sinking line SA Titan 3/5/7 ips, but I'm fishing offshore humps and channels, I'll bang the banks with 24ft sink tip 350grain RIO/SA. The sink tip will also work very well for banking 6-8 inch streamers at the banks out of a boat at Taney or the White, but also wading and swinging a tiger tail or leach.

I fly fish pretty much exclusively and mostly on Taneycomo, but it's basically the same river system as the White. Your question has a large response surface area, many ways to fish from the bank and wade for trout. Very cool getting your son exposed to fishing. You also noted your precaution to the ever changing CFS of the white, that's a big determining factor. When water is minimum flow there are lots of wading opportunities at the Bull shoals dam, but there are restrictions, i.e. barbless, catch and release, research those. There are other wading locations on the White and Norfork, but will let others chim in on those, also googling that will produce locations. I'm not experience wade fishing with spin gear, but you should be able to pitch spoons, rapalas, jigs, rooster tails, etc. and get results, you can target fish you see, or "read the water" where they should be and put your lure in there vision, they eat most of the time, just not the same thing. You can also fish flies with spinning gear using a weighted indicator(so you can cast tiny flies) Water running, power bait, worms, minnows, etc... from a dock/shore, just make sure you are getting down to them.

Yes, looks great, that's entice a wiper

@FlySmallie what kind of Camera and do you shoot movies/video with it?

Thanks, will watch

Very Nice!!!

I threw a pretty decent size hopper pattern size 6 hook, black foam body, purple dubbing 8 purple legs pretty basic, but they liked it.

@Phil Lilley Sorry for late response, 100 mhw. running since about 1:00 p.m I fished 6:30pm - 7:00pm