9-29 through 10-1 trip

[Devan S.]

Decided to head east for a couple days around the full moon to chase giants and check out some new areas. Arrived right below the dam on the west side right at 10am. Stepped out of the truck pulled waders out and they blew the horn. Not knowing what to expect I skipped the waders and just went down to watch. The water came up but seemed to be fishable. Instead of suiting up I hoped downstream to the boat ramp to check out that area figuring I could fish the eddy behind the point. I immediately caught several brookies and a decent brown. 

I did get checked by AGFC here. The barbless check was just a simple look n see vs. the discussion on cotton ect. He did tell me as they kicked the generators on there was shad coming through and he advised white. 

I stayed around a bit but it was mid-afternoon and was ready to go check out Norfork TW and some other accesses including White Hole looking for some deeper holes to target bigger fish. 

 

[Devan S.]

We arrived back at the dam way before daylight. Before I left the day before I went down and picked around the flat area while they were running water and hooked and lost a really nice brown on its third jump so our plan was to start here. We caught a bunch of health fighting rainbows but probably lost double what we landed. I did catch the biggest brown of the trip and a nice rainbow that just looked rough.

We picked around the fast water on the other side by the boat ramp and caught a couple more nice browns and some rainbows before heading back to Norfork.