The Norfork's Hot: Arkansas Tailwater Offers Trout Action To Match The Weather

[Phil Lilley]

For the past two seasons, Bob Cooke has been wrestling with the same weather anomalies as his fellow bait-and-tackle business owners serving fishermen at Lake Barkley, Taylorsville Lake and the Cumberland River.

Too much water last year, not enough this year.

“It’s been kind of rough,” said Cooke, who owns the Blue Ribbon Fly Shop, an Orvis-endorsed outfit near Mountain Home, Ark., that’s ground zero for many trout anglers who journey here to fish the famed White and Norfork rivers. “We didn’t have any wadeable water last year because of all the flooding, and this year has been a drought. But things are getting better.”

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