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 […]

Trout fishing on Lake Taneycomo has been pretty good the last few weeks.  About six weeks ago a big number of rainbow trout were stocked in short order.  My understanding was that our hatcheries were over crowded and officials had to reduce numbers.  These rainbows were a little on the small side and most were […] The post September 17 2025 Fishin...

Can’t believe its been 3 years since the two Kyles from the Ozark Podcast came to Cotter for a session on hopper tactics. The same lessons apply today for better presentation: The trio go over the hopper basics then Steve gives his 5 tips to better presentations For Android users try the spotify link here… If […]

Where has the year gone we are into August already. The weather has been pretty darn warm but so has the fishing if you are in the right place at the right time. There is a lot of water out there filling in the gaps between the fish. The hopper bite is getting rolling with […]

Wyoming authorities have banned pegged trout beads and other attractors from two high pressure tailwaters in a bid to reduce the incidence potentially lethal injuries. Wyoming Fish and Game last week agreed to the new regulations which include the ban on pegged attractors on the Cardwell and Gray Reef sections of the North Platte after […]

We’ve seen a great deal of water pass our dock this spring and summer!  And it continues to run but there’s a light at the end of this tunnel.  Table Rock Lake is dropping one foot every 3 days and is almost down to it’s power pool lever (917 feet).  Before it gets there I […] The post July 17 2025 Fishing Report appeared first on Lilleys' Landing...

With the high flows on both our tailwaters now settling in it is appropriate to drag this How To video from the legend Gabe Levin. This leader setup gets get your flies down to where the fish are feeding fast faster than standard tapered leaders (they do give you a way of reusing the butt […]

Well its been building all spring but the big water is finally here. We are now starting to see big chunks of the day with between five or six units of water which is high but more friendly to fish than secen or eight units and more fun than flood gate conditions. Bull Shoals Lake […]

There’s a few things that have come to mean summer in the Ozarks: stepping out side into a soft warm cloak of air at dawn the smell of baked grass and dirt popup storms blooming in the west; and the long slow rise of a brown trout to your fly. There hasn’t been too much […]

After weeks of non-stop heavy flow from Table Rock Lake we’re back to turbines-only medium flows here on Lake Taneycomo. Table Rock’s power pool changed from 915 to 917 feet (summer pool) which has taken some of the pressure off to drop TR’s levels; thus the slower flows.  But there is rain in the forecast. […] The post May 16 2025 Fishing Report...

It’s spring time and there is all manner of fly fishing entertainment going on. Caddis is good on the White but slowing down some and some lonely sulphurs showing up early for the big dance. The creeks are popping with smallmouth carp and tropical panfish. If big stripers in a small river gets you excited […]

Last week we told you this week was looking cadissy and we weren’t wrong. Find some sun and the bugs come thick and the browns dine hard. Its been very good at times and better than average most afternoons. Bull Shoals Lake continues to climb and on USACE estimates should crest around May 17 with […]

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The Sunday Special originated by Clint Wilkinson might be the ultimate guide fly: just Hare on a Hook with an oversize bead. Tie them fast and scruffy. Represents all manner of food items but it’s a killer caddis bug everyone coming to the White needs to have. We have thrown in a couple of extra […]

Hooly Dooly we might be waking up to low flows for the first time in a while this morning. Once the morning storms pass it should be a very caddisy Friday. The authorities slid back the water flows from last week’s 20 000+ cfs over the course of the week sparking off the first real caddis […]

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 […]

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 […]