fishing report 11-12-06

[Jeremy Hunt]

As we were fishing the Norfork I got on my phone and wanted to see what they were doing on the White. My buddy Bill said on the way down that he always wanted to fish Wildcat Shoals. We wanted to split the day and get fishing time on both rivers if we could. I knew they started generating one unit at 6 am in the morning so our plan was to fish the afternoon if the water cooperated. I always like fishing Wildcat Shoals when the water is off. Those fish seem to like feeding when the water drops out. They really seem to like bead head midge patterns and you can catch trout after trout. I was really shocked to see that there were no cars and nobody fishing it when we got there. I guess we lucked out having this whole stretch all to our self. The water wasn’t all the way down so the current was a little slower than usual so I didn’t know how good the bite was going to be. We really didn’t have a lot of time to fish because by the time we got there it was around 4 pm and we only had about hour and a half of good daylight left. We all tied on black zebra midges in size 16. All I can say is we one fish after another. Someone always had a rod bent. We didn’t catch anything of any size and they were all rainbows, but what a great weekend fishing with my father and the weather couldn’t have been any better to us. Another good thing about this trip is Mr. Bill Badley caught his first Norfork brookie and that seem to be the high life of his trip to Arkansas. I can’t lie either… it is always fun to catch those cute little guys. I don’t care if they are six inches.