Report

[Brian Wise]

Hey guys,

With heavy rains coming to the ozarks last week, rivers rose! The North Fork of the White rose to 9000 CFS, it was running around 200 cfs before the rain. We needed some high water to clean out the river a little, but ideally we need a little more. The water is coming down now (running 519 cfs) and the fishing should be really good around this weekend. 400 cfs is the magic number on the North Fork of the White it seems like everytime the water gets up when it hits that 400 cfs it fishes really good for a long time after that. We had just switched sizes of most of the flies we were using before the high water, we started going real small. After the high water bump those sizes up a little. I would go 10-14's for Hare's Ears, Princes, Pheasant Tails, and Copper Johns. The Stonefly bite should pick up anytime, and the high water could totally turn that bite on. Egg patterns are flat out going to pick up fish this time of year. All in all it is good to see the river rolling with some high water again, because we know that after high water comes good fishing.

Brian