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 […]

Iconic southern fly fishing e-mag Southern Culture on the Fly has a photo essay on fishcamps in the Louisiana marshes from our own Steve Dally in the latest issue. SCOF edition #50 leads of with Marshitecture Steve’s study of the diminishing fishcamps throughout the marsh taken during our guide’s annual winter sojourn south in search […]

Scientists are delving into the reasons fish species are shrinking as waters warm due to climate change the latest research ruling out one of the leading theories. A team of scientists led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently found and published in Phys.org that there is no evidence to  to support the theory that fish […]

When it comes to fishing timing can be everything. This holds true wherever one finds himself – be it while on the salt flats during Alaskan salmon runs or on trout streams throughout the world. The last week on our tailwaters can attest to the importance of timing – both good and bad – and […]

I have a fondness for debate without answer: and fly fishing is full of questions without a right or wrong. Like “if you only had one fly to fish” which hand to reel with or the right color of backing. Ken Baldwin at Men’s Journal boldly went forth stating the case for the Woolly Bugger […]

The AGFC is conducting a survey into public opinion on a range of fishing and hunting regulations for the future. The proposals would include a ban on harvesting all trout species other than rainbows at night on all 4 trout tailwaters and the Spring River removing 2 smallmouth bass special regulation areas on Crooked Creek […]

Saturday night in Bentonville Reel Recovery Arkansas will host the International Fly Fishing Film Festival. Doors open 6.30pm Saturday night at the Meteor Guitar Gallery and tickets are available at the door. For more details

It’s spring time on the tailwaters caddis popping gusty winds and dealing with spring rails but the fishing has been a lot of fun. Bull Shoals Lake has officially crested after recent torrential rains and is on the way back down as the Dam has ramped up releases each day this week. Norfork has floodgates […]

Timely to repost the video I shot with fellow guide and great friend Chad Johnson during the spring of 2020 on fishing the White River’s epic caddis hatches. Every year is slightly different but there is a lot of solid information in here Listen to our great friend and colleague Chad Johnson fill you in […]