There is a lot of buzz around the movie Mending The Line as a rare film with fly fishing as a central component. But fly fishing isn’t the whole story. Now on Netflix Due out June 9 the film tells the story of “A Marine wounded in Afghanistan is sent to a V.A. facility in […]

The spring bugs are almost here and its time to be filling your boxes and Davy Wotton’s SLF Trans Caddis is a must have in both colors. Watch the video tie the bug and have fun this spring. Materials List Bead head optional. 2mm for hook sizes 12/14 Wing..Swiss straw or Raffine natural color straw […]

“The rain came down and the floods came up.” I found myself singing the popular children’s song from time to time as I spent countless minutes bailing water from my boat during Monday’s torrent. At one point a small rainbow we had caught slipped from my hands fell into the boat and was actually able […]

Wanting to break into the fly fishing industry or perhaps looking for a fun parttime position. Dally’s Ozark Fly Fisher is looking to fill a couple of positions on the retail floor with passionate friendly and fun fly fishing enthusiasts. This is not a river guide position. Fly fishing experience is mandatory fly tying a […]

We’ve been saying for weeks that spring has shown off early here in the Ozarks. February and early March saw long stretches of temps in the 70s which got the trees blooming early and forced many a pair of Chacos out of retirement. Yet here we are entering into the official spring season and a […]

Iconic fly fisher fly tyer artist and teacher Dave Whitlock will be honored with a memorial overlooking Dry Run Creek tomorrow night at 5.30pm Whitlock was instrumental in designing the improvement project for the creek which stands as the world’s best fishery for youth the mobility handicapped. Dave’s widow Emily his close friend Davy Wotton […]

Brian Wise ties Galloup’s Slick Willy

Master tyer and matrialsbguru Davy Wotton is being honored at this week’s Sowbug Roundup in Mountain Home. The theme of the 2024 Sowbug is “The Elegant Wet Fly” fitting in that the wet fly is central to Wotton’s mastery as a tyer angler and guide/instructor. So this week we offer this video from our archives. […]

It’s happening. If you know me (Tadd) you will know that the kickoff to the smallmouth season gives me the warm fuzzies and makes me giggle like a 6-year old at the candy store. I was fortunate enough this week to find the time between guide trips to make the annual pilgrimage to the holy […]

Dally’s head guide Chad Mississippi Johnson will be talking Ozark bass and how to target them on fly at the 2024 Sowbug Roundup. Chad’s presentation will be kick off the last day of the Sowbug starting at 9.30 am Saturday March 23. He will be looking across the bass spectrum from the iconic smallmouth bass […]

Solid story from Chris Hunt in Hatches on the search for a fish lost for 12 decades the yellowfin cutthroat. aquatic biologist Alex Townsend is slowly unraveling the natural and human history that percolates from the waters of Twin Lakes into the towering “fourteeners” along the spine of the continent. His ultimate prize? A rendezvous […]

Chad Johnson with be guest of honor at the Mayfly Project-Bennett Spring’s will be having a fundraising and fly-tying dinner this Saturday night March 9 at the Bennet Springs Fire House.

If you were out fishing Thursday you were wet Thursday. Rain from start to finish soaked many who braved the downpour and Friday looks to continue the trend. Thankfully though a solid pair of Simms or Grundens bibs provide much needed reprieve during rainy spring days which we are sure to see plenty of in […]

Once on the verge of extinction thanks to the native tribe for which they are named these fish are about the come off the endangered species list. This really might be one of the best native trout comeback stories ever and how Apache trout got where they are is one of the most interesting science […]

The 2024 Sowbug Roundup at the end of the month will pay tribute to the enormous contribution to fly tying and fly fishing by Davy Wotton making him the event guest of honor. Davy is one of the world’s foremost experts on the arts and science of fly fishing the traditional wet fly. Which makes […]

Winter trout fishing reigns at its finest  in the month of February here on Lake Taneycomo.  February has seen tremendous hangouts of trout bite the net for those select anglers willing to brave the potentially brutal conditions of winter.  However no bravery was needed for this February as early spring temperatures greeted us.  Most days averaged...

Southern Culture on the Fly is lighting up the 2024 periodic cicada hatches over much of the US this spring with an epic photo contest with almost $15 000 in prizes already. The idea is pretty simple sign up for the contest catch a fish on a cicada fly and both send the fly to SCOF […]

It has come time to say farewell to February and aloha to the month that will officially usher in spring. Winter is coming to a close and longer warmer days are peaking over the horizon. I can’t remember a winter this mild in quite some time though and these 70-80 degree February days have not […]

Last week’s greatest fly post kicked off debate on social media in the shop and guide boats so we thought it might be fun to switch sides and ponder flies you have. For some it might be the “greatest fly” the bugger or the Muddler Minnow seems to stimula plenty of negative attention from some […]

If anyone lived for the dip of a bobber it was Bryce Cadion. Bryce who passed away recently will be remembered at a Celebration of Life Saturday March 16 at 11am at the Parker Bottom Access on Beaver Tailwater. Beaver became Bryce’s homewater for many years but he loved them all Taneycomo Norfork and the […]