Lake Taneycomo is open all year!  Today is not our opening day for trout season since we are not a trout park.  There are four trout parks in Missouri – Roaring River Bennett Springs Montauk and Meramac Springs.  We do get calls and emails asking about our fishing season so I wanted to make that […] The post March 1 2026 Fishing Report appeared fi...

JOIN Steve Dally on this adventure to perhaps the world’s best permit fishery at Perla Negra on the vast and little touched Espiritu Santu Bay June 6 through 14 If fishing quality is what you live for  trophy class species in little fished water and think an off-the-grid cabana under the palms with bonefish flat at your front door […]

Two weeks ago people were saying we were crazy out fishing in single digit weather.  But trout fishing was excellent!  And the main reason it was so good was they were running water — heavy flows.  Of course it didn’t hurt that shad were coming through the turbines!  All that to say is… bring on […] The post February 10 2026 Fishing Report appeare...

Updating the Twerking Minnow with an brush head and new materials that is just as good at the old material. The Twerking Minnow has been a favorite for many years a synthetic minnow that maintains its profile and you don’t need to comb out on every fish. The built in flash brings in the predators […]

The winter season is what I’ve always said to be the best time of year to fish Lake Taneycomo.  Why?  Because of low fishing pressure coupled with the abundance of fish in the lake especially larger rainbows below Fall Creek (out of the trophy area).  I believe typically bigger mature trout move out of the […] The post January 28 2026 Fishing Repo...

First look at the Nick Groves custom streamer vise from Renzetti. Nick is our Canadian mate streamer tyer and Renzetti ambassador who showed me this a while back. Based on a Saltwater Clouser model vise this blacked out custom package developed by Nick and Andy Renzetti is all about easier working with articulated streamers. The […]

If I was a spin fishing guide on the White River system right now I’d be extremely worried about my future. I’d be thankful the AGFC’s emergency C+R regulations were enacted in over winter when business is slowest. But I’d be worried firstly that my fish keeping clientele might decide not to join my catch […]

It may well be natural processes in Norfork Lake that led to the massive fish kill in the National Fish Hatchery but its important to remember its not natural at all. There wouldn’t be trout a hatchery or the issues of dissolved oxygen without the 81-year-old half mile long concrete and steel dam. The hatchery […]

Solid article in Outdoor life on the decisions facing fisheries managers in heavily pressured fisheries like the North Platte in Wyoming. You might recall Wyoming fisheries managers banning pegged beads or worms in June on catch and release sections of the North Platte to protect trout from hooking injuries or mortality. Like our tailwaters the […]

A detailed look at the Emergency Catch and Release Regulation issue by Lynn Burkhead in Fly Fisherman.com It’s big news in a region where White River and Norfork River trout fishing contributes millions to the local economy annually. And since the year-round trout fishing potential–including the region’s famed winter streamer season–is fodder on so...

By popular demand had a flood of new interest when we announced thenlegen Cheech Pierce would attendingnthe Lovefest/Fly Battle weekend are are extending the entry deadline to Nov 15. Its simple show us your tying skills on an articulated streamer and get selected in the final 8 to battle it out in front of cheech […]

We are stoked to welcome the big guy with the beard Clark “Cheech” Pierce to the Streamer Lovefest band of tiers for January 24 2026. Steve and Cheech met at Sage’s R8 fly rod launch in Montana in 2022 and the invitation was broached after figuring he would fit in. Most of us got to […]

The $300 million industry built on the White River below Bull Shoals and the Norfork Tailwater teeters on the shaky foundation of 70 year old hatchery and water quality issues from Norfork Lake. Eighty per cent of the Norfork National Fish Hatchery production for 2026 died in a recent fish kill prompting the Arkansas Game […]

For the official record_ for what we think come back tomorrow am. Also read Bryan Hendricks piece for the Democrat Gazette here The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) has implemented a temporary 120-day emergency order effective immediately to reduce daily trout possession limits in the state’s four major coldwater fisheries due to a signific...

Fly tying video auteur fly designer guide and all around good dude Brian Wise will host the inaugural Fly Battle in Streamer Stadium Mountain Home on January 23 next year for a seat at the return of Dally’s Streamer Lovefest. The showdown in front of a live audience (upstairs at Rapp’s Barren Brewery) will also […]

Own a piece or two of true fly fishing history with a massive online auction of the late Dave Whitlock’s personal collection of rods and reels. Many rods feature Dave’s signature making them a truly desirable piece of history. The auction at http://www.davewhitlock.com starts Saturday at 10am and ends 3pm Sunday. Live Facebook sessions on […]

Help us unearth the next streamer fly tying guru and fill a seat for the legendary return of Dally’s Streamer Lovefest in January 2026. The best 8 patterns submitted to our mail in competition will compete for the ultimate prize in Streamer Stadium (Rapp’s Barren Brewery) in Mountain Home AR on January 23. Eight tyers […]

Dave Wiseman has fished with me for better than a decade and hooked and landed some giant trout in Arkansas and pursued trout and taimen from Mongolia to Patagonia. And I never thought we would pry his green dry fly stick from his hand. This year I made a convert from Dave with my new […]

JOIN the coolest global fly tying competition and you could win a coveted seat to tie at the reborn Dally’s Streamer Lovefest and other great prizes. In conjunction with the Lovefest we introduce the ultimate fly-tying showdown: the Fly Battle: a contest for amateur tyers to pit their streamer tying skills. On January 23 in […]

RISING from the ashes the world’s most epic fly tying party is reborn. Its Dally’s Streamer Lovefest  @ the Diamond State Fly Co in January 24 2026. Lovefest founder Steve Dally has joined forces with Morgan Guss and Logan Huff of Diamond State answering the myriad calls to resurrect the legendary event. And the rebirth […]

Lake Taneycomo is open all year!  Today is not our opening day for trout season since we are not a trout park.  There are four trout parks in Missouri – Roaring River Bennett Springs Montauk and Meramac Springs.  We do get calls and emails asking about our fishing season so I wanted to make that […] The post March 1 2026 Fishing Report appeared fi...