June started off with a bang with a weekend of some pretty incredible dry fly fishing with browns looking up for cicadas. For those who found themselves in the right place at the right time the bite was silly at times. It seems that the cicada bite has peaked and is now on its way […]

It’s been an interesting spring season for fishing on Lake Taneycomo. If I had to script it I’m not sure I could create a better scenario as far as the water conditions we’ve had so far. We’ve seen up to nine gates opened at the dam bringing in a lot of shad and other food […] The post June 1 2024 Fishing Report appeared first on Lilleys' Landing...

As many of you have experienced or heard tornadoes ravaged our area in the early morning hours of this past Sunday. Though seemingly everyone in the entire region was impacted ground zero seems to have been in the Pyatt-Snow area and the Briarcliff-Salesville area. Dally’s own Draven and Vincent roommates living in guide Ben Levin’s […]

Two of the shop’s mainstays Vince Cusimano and Draven King walked out of their rental cabin Sunday with barely the clothes they stood in lucky to be alive Both their vehicles and that of Draven’s girlfriend Gabi were heavily damaged by a devastating tornado which swept through our area. The cabin they rented owned by […]

Generation on the White this week has tried to hold to steady patterns though kinks in this pattern showed up from time to time. Weekend water saw lengthy periods of flow between 6-8 000 cfs during fishing hours. This trend continued into Monday until late afternoon with a jump up to nearly 13 000 cfs by nightfall. […]

Saturday night on the banks of the White River the local fly fishing community will gather for a remarkable annual celebration the F3T Under The Bridge Festival. Set in the spectacular natural setting of Big Spring Park the festival features music food trucks local craft brews from Norfork Brewing and Rapp’s Barren and the Cotter […]

Flows on the White have been of the mixed variety this past week – similar to how we described the flows in the previous week’s report. We saw extended periods of 30 megs mixed with long bouts of 230 megs and everything in-between. No discernible pattern really came to fruition aside from every day giving […]

This week on the White gave us all different types of generation. Fishermen needed to dig deep into their bag of tricks to stay in consistent bites.Big bumps fast drops hours of steady flow rains sun wind – no stone was left unturned when it came to fishing conditions. Early in the week saw morning […]

April Vokey returned to the White this past winter with husband and daughter and they fished with Tadd and Steve. Enjoy her video

April showers bring May…showers. Rain has spilled over into the beginning of May and it has been a wet week to say the least. From long drizzles to pop up thunderstorms Arkansas spring is here to stay. As such lots of water is plunging into our twin lakes and causing them to rise. As we’ve […]

There’s never a perfect time to write a fishing report it seems because as soon as you post it conditions change and some of the report becomes inaccurate.  This report has the same issues since our water conditions will change later this week –but I’ll try to cover what I think will work then too. […] The post May 1 2024 Fishing Report appeared f...

OFFICIAL F3T Under The Bridge Festival tickets will go onsale locally next week for the epic fly fishing film show anywhere. Cotter-Gassville Chamber of Commerce has stepped up with a huge new LED Screen to allow earlier screening of the films and better images along with a new sound system all on the banks of […]

Water this week on the White has been a little less stable than in previous weeks. Though daily projections have called for fairly steady flow each day has consisted of ups and downs that require timing and know-how to optimize fishing success. Flows have been as low as 900 cfs and as high as 15 000 […]

Stop by the Fly Shop and test cast the new Orvis Helios and you can be in the running for an all expenses paid trip for two to Orvis’ Vermont headquarters two Helios rods and a $3000 Orvis Gift card. For many the chance to spend a day fishing with Orvis’ Chief Enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer […]

The White River is in an interesting phase right now. Overall water is still hovering in that 40 megawatts range. Afternoon bumps have been more common lately as near-90 degree weather has forced many to kick on the A/C after lunchtime. With long bouts of 40 megawatts or less is present caddis try to get […]

Minimum flow has been a notion of the past at least during the last seven days. For the first time in what feels like forever generation on the White never dipped below 1 000 cfs. 20-45 megawatts has been typical with only the rarest of bumps between 100-200 megs. It stands to reason that consistent low […]

March left all of us locals stumped with lots of pondering as to what this year will hold — not on the fishing side of the spectrum but on the types of water flows we might see. Captain Steve Dickey said in the 15 years he has fished Lake Taneycomo he has never seen so many […] The post April 10 2024 Fishing Report appeared first on Lilleys' Landi...

Cotter Trout Fest is raffling off a $10000 Honda 4-wheeler for its 22nd event next month and you can get your tickets at Dally’s The First Security Cotter Trout Festival will be the 22nd Annual – Cotter Big Spring Park event on May 4th 10am – 6 pm. The 2024 Honda TRX 4Wheeler with a trailer […]

The weekend on the White sang the minimum flow melody with only sporadic and short-lived bumps of H2O. We really did not see any mentionable water until Tuesday. Minimum flow never returned until a short two-hour window mid-day on Thursday. The days in-between saw long periods of pretty stable water – albeit low most days. […]