White River Report 5-28-07

[Jeremy Hunt]

May 28th 2007

I really don’t know where to start with today’s trip. I had Doug again with another buddy of his named Paul. We fished the whole day in Arkansas on the White. We decided to start the day up at the dam. They were running two units when we called on the way down and the luck I’ve been having fishing in this water have been extremely well. If you’ve been reading my reports, here lately we have hooked into a big fish every time we go fish there.

Well, that’s exactly what happen today. Doug told me on the way down there that he wanted to catch something over twenty inches. And after reading my reports for the last week, he was expecting those same kind of results. Paul was an experienced fly fisher and the way Doug was talking this trip up, he had to see it for himself to.

So here’s what happened, we rigged up throwing san jaun worms in pink fishing about 8ft under an indicator weighted with a number four split shot. We started fishing about 10:00 am with not a single boat in sight. It was kind of weird for being Memorial Day. The first cast Doug hooks up with a 19 inch rainbow along with an 18 incher on his second cast. I knew right then we were going to have a good day of fishing up here at the dam. To make a long story short, before we decided to call it quits before heading to Rim Shoals we caught four fish in the 18 inch range with a few 17 and a bunch of 16 inchers. The bite was solid for two hours and then the boats started rolling in so the bite was a little slower, but we were still able to catch fish consistently until 3pm.

We headed to Rim to see if the bite was a little faster. I knew the quality of the fish wouldn’t be the same, but the numbers would be there. We caught some fish, but all rainbows so we didn’t stick around long before we decided to head back to the Dam. We figured if the bite was this bad we could do the same thing at the dam, but maybe have a chance at a big one. We got back to the Dam around 6:30 so I knew we had a few hours left. Now I know some of you won’t believe me and I wouldn’t either if I read what I was about to write about. We caught some of the nicest fish in those two hours then I most people dream about. I promise, when I say Doug and Paul caught fish every cast until we left around 8:30, that’s exactly what happened. Along with Doug hooking into a 24 inch brown that gave him a run for his money. Doug will tell you this, he probably missed a few fish this big without getting them in. And the same for Paul he had two fish he never saw, and NO they were not foul hooked I can promise you that. All I can say is, what a trip. They did have three units most of the time we were fishing and they kicked it on around noon. It sure made for some great fishing. We never switched over from fishing a pink san jaun worm. Now that the word is out, go fish some worms, you will see what I’m talking about. I don’t know for how long, but you better go before you miss out on some of the best fishing around for trout. If you want to go just let me know. jeremy@taneycomotrout.com

[Danoinark]

Excellent report Jeremy...thanks...Dano