OnTheFly

Looking for a place to park my travel trailer for the summer over at Roaring....any and all recommendations are appreciated.

Looks like a 0 Hart reel to me....have a few I use and a few tucked away.

Are you sure that is not Dwayne Hadda from the Ft.Smith AR area?

I use a 6'6" 3wt G series Scott....has worked great on that little stream

Tim that is one of the nicest fish I have seen caught in that little creek. Like you I have seen some real monster (in length) hiding in places that you couldn’t even dangle a fly into. The fish I have caught over there don’t really seem to be picky what you throw at them just but those fish are danged easy to spook. My best trip ever was in a November snow 10 plus years ago….caught about a half a dozen trout on a hopper in the snow.

I know this sounds silly but some years the crowds are HUGE and some they are just a regular summer crowd....what were the crowds like today (July 3rd)? Thinking about joining the fray tomorrow.

Those are huge tricos....I remember a time sparsely tied 26 were the order of the day…are pecker gnats still working at Roaring as well?

Is there still a good Trico hatch at Roaring? There use to be a really good hatch ten years ago.

What are the water conditions like at Roaring? Has the water level come up this spring? and while we are at it...what flies are hot right now? Thanks in advance for the responses.

Tell you wife it is just a bear...she has a better chance of being bitten by a snake than SEEING a bear.

Back in 1976 my grandfather and I were fishing Taney and saw a black bear one morning...have seen one over near Roaring River in the last six years as well.

It is what it is....Taney is getting loved to death.

I am trying to find a place here in Ttown where I can get biscuits and gravy for lunch. Hope you all have a great opening day....Terry has asked for pictures...but can someone tell us about the B&G?

Instead of using a bobber type strike indicator try using a tube indicator…they sell some commercially made stuff but if you have any old 7wt fly line you can make your own by pulling the core out and sliding the tube on to your leader material. Sometimes I put two pieces on about a foot apart and watch them as they float down the river…if they twitch set he hook…it doesn’t cost anything.

I looked at the website listed and none of the flies look new or innovative to me…mostly tweaked patterns that have been around for years. The flies appear to be tied using commercially sold hooks and materials that you can pick up from any fly shop or craft shop. A few years ago I “created” what I thought was a new and innovative trico pattern only to find it being commercially sold in a fly shop in Wyoming. Did they steal my pattern? Nope…just two tiers using digging through new tying products and both thought a particular combination of materials might catch fish...but for the record…the shop owner didn’t have any of the flies tied on a 26 xfine mustad hooks.