Lshack2

I was able to fish at BSD C&R yesterday as well and it was a good morning. Ended up with 20+- including several nice rainbows, a decent brown and a small Cutty. Best flies were tandem wet flies early and brown or red midges when fog burned off. Here are a couple of pics but not as skilled as Netboy with the camera.

Thank you. Very much appreciate your reports!

Are you finding any particular wel fly pattern that is working right now? Any information shared is much appreciated m! larry

Thank you! Very helpful

I really appreciate your reports and hope the best of Caddis are yet to come. Would you mind sharing what foam you use with your elk hair Caddis for the body? I’ve used 1mm Hairline for 16’s but only color options I’ve found is olive or chartreuse. Neither color really match the natural very well. thanks, Larry

I also fished the dam this a.m. nice to meet you in person Netboy. I fished a couple of hours including a couple of breaks in the truck as the thunder rolled. Caught around a ten, most on a scud. Lost a good one at the net 20”+. I too looked at the weather Chanel ap before leaving the house…the the future turned out to be a crap shoot.

Yes 7 MHZ is about 650 cfs coming through the turbines and is minimum flow at BSD. Prior to the min flow regulation there would only be like 20 cfs when the water was “off”. Often they run 35 MHZ which is about 1 unit but in theory they should not go below 7 MHZ unless there is an emergency such as a drowning that occurs below BSD. Hope this helps.

Thank you. That is a great soft hackle when the Caddis are popping.

Thank you for posting reports and keeping an update on the river conditions. What is a your soft hackle pattern of choice these days. I fished at the dam C&R the weekend before last and saw a few sulfur’s coming off. Have you noted any mayfly activity of late?

Near perfect condition Predator 4 Blade Prop DT 23 F B 3 for Mercury Yamaha. No chips or damage. This prop had very low hours but boat is no more. We just moved and I found this in the moving process. I paid originally $500. Make an offer. Can be picked up in NWA or shipped via UPS for actually shipping cost. Let me know if you have any questions or need additional pics via email jlshack2@gmail.com Larry

I fly fished the shoal about a mile below the twin bridges near Riverlyn on Sunday. The channel there is less 15 yards wide and a tree is completely across the channel. You can easily wade across the channel there and the water at the top of the shoal less than a foot deep. A couple of kayaks portaged around the shoal but it was not navigable via boat. I talked to one fisherman that put a boat in on Saturday at Blue Springs and could not make it up even to Walkers Bluff due to low water on the shoal. It looks like the river is up a couple of feet today after the rain but falling fast. There were a half dozen fisherman on the shoal Sunday and no one was having any success. We have lived in Goshen 12 years and have never seen the river this low in the spring at white bass time. Larry

How difficult is it to run from the lower portion of the Rim catch and release back to the boat ramp on minimum flow? I know a lot of gravel filled in on the river right side of the first island.... thanks

I fished a couple of hour before dark around twin bridges. It was a interesting evening with two keeper walleye?, one Nice 15" KY and a dozen +whites in various flavorels from 3+# sows to long skinney males, to a few 8" knot heads . Also caught a couple of 12" crappie. For Me the bite was best after the sun got off the water and the wind calmed some. All came on clouser Minnows with some combo of chartreuse. Water was 62 and a bit of everything was moving on up. Larry Shack

I fished the twin bridges area this evening and caught a few small males and not where you would expect them to be this time of year. I hope that Hoglaw is correct and we are still early in the run. It was 29 degrees this morning in Goshen which doesn't help things a lot.

I am with Hoglaw, primarily a fly fisher so spring fishing on the river is about the only chance I have to realistically catch a walleye. I carry a stringer and tape measure and almost all the fish that keep are males in the 18" - 20" range. Each year I seem to catch a couple that are clearly bigger females that go back in the river to do their thing. I figure AGFC has put some science into the four fish limit over 18" to sustain the population. I don't keep bass nor trout but Sunday had 2 walleye over and 8 keeper crappie all on Clouser Minnows... our family had a fish fry tonight....and didn't feel bad about it at all!