Sunday Afternoon On The Norfork

[John Berry]

It has been a busy December (my busiest ever). That, the holidays and some very brutal weather have conspired against me. I have been able to catch a day on the White but I had not been able to fish on the Norfork. Yesterday I saw my chance. The temperature was in the fifties and the sun was shining. The river was on the bottom. I knew that all of the out of towners would be leaving the river early.

I gathered up my wife, Lori, and my yellow lab, Ellie, and headed out. When I arrived the parking lot was full. I noticed there were several anglers wading in to head back home. We went far upstream and found some great water to fish. Lori fished woolies and Dan's turkey tail emergers and caught over fifteen. I fished a worm brown San Juan worm, sowbug scud and partridge and orange and landed a baker's dozen. The big fish was a sixteen inch rainbow.

I had caught enough and sat on the bank with Ellie and we watched Lori fish. It was the perfect end to the perfect day. It was nice to be back wading my favorite stream.