KATroutman13

Fished down there last Saturday with a buddy. Wet wading is not an issue, at all. i caught a bunch of fish early on a bugger in C&R and in other places. Caught fish later in the morning on a caddis pupa imitation. Then for the rest of the day, I kept very busy catching fish on black foam beetles, the one on the counter at Tim's and on a size 8 Taylor's Fat Albert in light tan. I was honestly amazed at the numbers of fish I caught on the beetle and hopper. It was a lot of fun. Remember, see the strike, breath, set the hook.

I have finished my major summer projects and am contemplating an additional summer project. Anyone have an old transom mount trolling motor that no longer works they wouldn't mine parting with?

Gavin, Great advice. Thanks. I will certainly do that Ness. I've got to get the thing running first, otherwise, I won't waste my time with the titling, etc. Wes

Hmm, interesting. Thanks for the input. A few years ago, I called the DOR and told them about the craft and putting a trolling motor (electric) on it and I was told I did not have to register the boat (might be the inflatable thing). I guess I will give them a call and ask again...if I ever get that motor running.

Okay, I have one of those inflatable pontoon boats. The toons are 10 feet long and it has a steel frame. I bent some steel sheeting to make my transom and it works perfectly for the trolling motor. I know that I do not have to register that boat with the trolling motor on it. However, I am in the process of fixing a small 1.75hp Sears Gamefisher motor. If I put that thing on the back of that inflatable pontoon, do I have to register it? Thoughts, suggestions, snide remarks?

Sean, Thanks.

I am assuming low water. High water gets us there earlier, which is not the issue.

If a fella were to float either the White or Norfork to start a float at dawn and be in a place where he could pull over to the side of the river, watch the basketball game at 11:00 a.m. or so and then continue a float, where would one do so?

I was wondering if anyone could recommend a shuttle service for a float from Wildcat Shoals to Cotter this weekend. Just need someone to pick up the truck and move it from Wildcat to Cotter. Also, will need the same for Norfork dam to the confluence. Thanks! Wes

Okay, okay. I give. I apologize for calling you out Brian.

Brian, We've met on the river a few times. I doubt you are a meth head, you have too many teeth in your smile on camera. But, your straw man type arguments will not get you out of this argument. Based on the photos and videos, I don't buy that you've NEVER fished a redd or ALWAYS instruct your clients to not fish redds. You catch fish in spawning colors and have video of a dude eating brown trout roe at a pull-out and assert that any fish spewing roe had to be pulled off a redd. It does not jive. Am I criticizing you, if you've ever fished redds? No. Ness, Brian does the same, do you have an equal criticism? He clearly admits that a brown was caught that sprayed eggs in a boat, thus, it was "obviously pulled off of a redd." According to him, if you didn't see a redd in the video it wasn't there, so these kids couldn't have been doing what he alleges them to have been doing, because that would be nothing more than an assumption.

Okay, Brian. I will give you that you do not have specific pictures of you casting to spawning fish or videos of you saying -- There's a nice fish on a redd, let's get him -- but circumstantial evidence is good enough for me. Look at your fall 2010 video, there's a dude eating trout roe at the end of the video. Looking at just your 2010 winter and fall videos, you can see numerous occassions where you catch fish that certainly appear to be spawning fish and are clearly fishing in areas where there would be beds on a river that has a population of wild reproducing trout during the time period in which they would be spawning. I find it very hard to believe that you have completely passed on every single big spawning bow or brown on the NFOW. Considering the amount of time you've spent on that river I am sure you've had that encounter about 100 times and I just don't buy that you've said, meh, let's move on every time.

TC, Predictable. No, I am not under that impression. But why don't you just roll through the blogs, watch the videos and look at the pictures posted, where they went, where they were fishing, et. cetera.

Justin, If that is what he is saying, then I think he needs to remove several of his videos from Youtube and avoid any further January trout odysseys. Time for some blog clean-up, too.

Brian, Your post is nonsensical, to me. Do you fish for fish on redds or not? Do you guide people to fish for fish on redds?