Home Alone On The Norfork

[John Berry]

I took a couple of clients to the Norfork yesterday afternoon. We had fished at Rim Shoals in the morning. After a nice lunch we walked up stream into the Catch and release area. When we got there, the only person we saw was a distinguished gentleman sporting a tweed hat and a six foot bamboo rod with a silk line. He was on his way out leaving the entire section to us. We reveled in the solitude.

We walked up to one of my favorite spots and caught an eighteen inch rainbow on the first cast. We moved about from one great spot to another catching some very fat healthy trout in the process. The hot flies were olive scuds and olive Norfork beadheads. We also caught fish on Y2Ks and black zebra midges.

About three o'clock it began raining. It was a pretty light rain and we didn't bother putting on our rain jackets. We fished untill dark and thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.

[BuschTrout22]

John, great report. I will be leaving in a couple of weeks or so and wanted to know what size do you tie on your y2k's?

I had success on a 12/14 with a tung gold bead?

Fl chart and orange seem to do the trick

Thanks for the reports!

[John Berry]

I mostly tie them in 12s and 14s in yellow and orange.

[BuschTrout22]

Thanks John