What's New

Here is whats new in Bull Shoals. First off it got cold and as I'm sitting here it's 27 degrees and the wind is howling. Have a little time off and my fisherman for today cancled out due to the weather. It will warm up again in the next day or two and the pollen will once again aggrivate my sinuses. Lets see what else? BS Dam actually shut the water off yesterday (friday) for a little white.

My thanks to all those folks who bought Tungsten beads from me. I do have another 13,000 coming in so if you didn't get the colors and sizes you wanted perhaps the next batch I get in will do this for you. The price is still $13.00 per hundred which is much less than retail and in fact much less than wholesale.

A Fishing show ADVENTURE GUIDES on TV will air next week on the old Outdoor network now called VS
On sat april 21s at 1pm EDT and 8:30 Am PDT and again on thursday 26th at 11:30 am EDT and at 8:30 am PDT.. Be sure to watch it as two of my buddies are in it.... Besides I did help in the shooting as a camera boat. It should be an interesting show as they show three (3 guides)... in half an hour...MMMmmmmm I hear it will be an interesting show as there was much controversy over it during and after it was filmed. It'll be interesting to see how that comes out on the final edit.

Guiding: Fishing Report:

April looks good but do have some open dates during the week if you are thinking about fishing the White or Norfok rivers. The caddis Hatch was hot and heavy till the cold weather took hold and perhaps it will start up again when it gets warmer. Midges of course have become the GO TO flies on the white now. Zebra midges in 18's and 20's black and silver, blood midges, OB Natural midges as well as a whole host of other midges. Trout Crack as well as Planarium, SJ worms, Scud and Sow bugs and of course Various stages of caddis will do the trick. Streamer type flies such as Sculpin and it's variants as well as buggers in olive and crawdads from wildcat down have produce for me over the last couple of weeks. Our next major hatch will be sulpher mayflies and we generally start seeing them around the end of may and into june. Stop Wishes and Fishes next to the convience store in Bull Shoals as I do have these flies in stock for this hatch as well as some fine sculpin patterns. The caddis patterns are about gone but I will re-stock them soon.

Would sure love to see some low water for a week or so without wind as well. I guess that's a wish but I sure would love to do some sight fishing for the big boys. See my website http://flyfisharkansas.com on this style or Technique I use to chase those guys. It can be a lot of fun. Especiall when one is hooked. It really gets the adrenaline flowing. It's the next best thing to a shad kill. Which reminds me! Jim Laing and Brad Eirling did write an article about the shad kill. We fished this past Feb during a down pour and I'm pleased with the article they came up with. Click on this link to read it. http://mwbt.com/Fishing/journal_detail.asp?wID=87&ArticleID=815


Tight lines and screaming reels.
Jimmy T.