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Seems like forever since I’ve been able to wade fish my home waters of Beaver Lake Tailwaters on the White River. We’ve had lots of water everywhere since May so the water has been too deep to wade fish. I took a couple trips down the White River in a homemade canoe and made aContinueContinue reading “Back to wade fishing”

Spent the weekend fishing with family at Greenleaf State Park down by Muskogee Oklahoma. Very nice facility with ample camping spots, clean bathrooms and showers, swimming pool, nature center, marina, boat rentals, etc….. Our target fish was catfish for this trip. I was locked and loaded with many rods and baits to do battle. BadContinueContinue reading “Greenleaf State Park”

Man it’s been hot around here. Heat index around 105. You can tolerate it if you can find some shade, but it’s still pretty rough being outside. Been hitting Roaring River in Missouri for a few hours in the mornings and in the evenings. Fishing in the morning with zebra midges. Doing pretty well withContinueContinue reading “Hot Weather Fishing”

Took a trip out west to Vail, CO to find some cooler weather, fish and just hangout and relax. Had such a great time exploring this area.  Did quite a bit of fishing on Gore Creek, Homesteak Creek and Eagle River. Caught lots of Browns.  Used Minturn Anglers guide service and had guide Mandy HertzfeldContinueContinue reading “Colorado July Getaway”

High water everywhere and hot temps making fishing tough around here.                    Took some time Saturday morning to pick some nice fresh blueberries at a local farm in Rogers,AR. So nice and delicious.  Saturday evening I went down to Lake Weddington in Fayetteville to explore. Never been here before. It is such a niceContinueContinue reading “Fathers Day Weekend”

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Check out the latest issue of So Much Water magazine.  It has a great review of the Hardly Strictly Musky tournament I recently attempted to fish in. If you know where to look I’m even in one of the pictures (if you squint your eyes just right). It also has some…

                               Took a Long weekend trip over to Norfork Arkansas this past week. Took my Mom who is visiting from AZ and my youngest daughter Rissa.  We took our time cruising over Thursday and stopped and did a little junk shopping in Alpena. We then had a belated Mothers Day dinner atContinueContinue reading “Norfork getaway”

                             Fished a few times at Roaring River over the last 2 weeks. The water is still a little high and the visibility low. Fishing is good with purple midge and green crackle backs. They just closed the flood gates at Beaver Lake so the water may be ready to go by next weekend.  I’veContinueContinue reading “More biking than fishing lately. “

                                 Spent the last week camping at Horseshoe Bend on Beaver Lake here in Arkansas. We have received a ton of rain in the last two weeks. The lake level came up about 3 feet in the week we were there. They ended up closing the peninsula first come camping area on Tuesday so weContinueContinue reading “Lots of rain in NWA”

               Had a chance Saturday to float the Beaver Tailwaters in a canoe my buddy Alex made. It’s homemade, handmade out of wood from designs he compiled from different internet sites.  Pretty nice piece of art and functional as well. I couldn’t believe how many people commented on the boat and had several conversations aboutContinueContinue reading “High waters and intermittent rains. “