Fishing Late On The Norfork

[John Berry]

After a nice morning on the White river at Roundhouse Shoals, I took my clients over to the Norfork. We ate lunch and watched the water drop out. At first the fishing was a bit slow. As it got later in the day, the action picked up and we did well with size eighteen olive scuds. We also caught fish with olive and black zebra midges, both with silver wire and silver beads. The big fish was a seventeen inch rainbow. We lost two monsters. The first one wrapped a rock and we lost the leader, fly,etc. On the other one, the fly line got wrapped around the reel seat and the big boy broke off! We fished untill after dark. Around dusk we got a midge hatch and we caught several with the diamond midge. All in all a very good day!