Fly Shop News~Sow Bug~Fishing Report

Generation has begun again as of last wednesday with a weak one unit.  On thursday and friday generation was upped to a full 5 units and then  backed off to a weak 4 units.  Caddis are continuing to come off the water with the fish keying in on the larval or emerger stages.  Various san juan worms are working as well.

The annual Sow Bug Round up was last weekend and the turn out was good with near 1500 attendees.  Vendors were happy as folks were spending money and the generation patterns cooperated with no water through tuesday.  

 

Tungsten beads are on the way and should be in the shop by april 10th.  We are bring on some new colors in Hot pink, Chartreuse, and Flourescent Orange in limited sizes of 2.0 (5/64) and 2.3 (3/32).  We will then have all the colors in.  Copper, Black, nickel, nickel black, gold and silver as well as all the sizes at $16.00 per hundred or $4.00 for a package of 25.  The new hot colors are the same price.

Call the shop at 870-445-3848 to order yours.  We take visa and master card.

The shop hours are from 8:00 am till 5:00 pm CDT.

Fishing Report: Sow Bug Roundup.

This past thursday I fished with a couple of gentleman from Wisconson, Woody and Frank.  I’ve fished with Frank before and his is a pleasure to fish with as was his buddy Woody.  The day started out slow but got better after lunch.  Our best fish of the day was a 20 inch brown with several good looking fat shad gorged bows as well.  Yesterday the pattern was the same on the upper end of the river with a better afternoon than the morning.  Both days the water dropped on us but as it stabilized the fishing picked up.  Shad patterns are still working some but seem to work better down stream than in the C&R areas.

 

This next thursday is again the start of another Sow Bug Round up so if you have never been it’s a must.  Stop by and say hello.  This year again I’ll have tungsten beads, indicators and hooks at a great price as well as some other great bargins.  Ken Richards will also be sitting with us garnering some support and donations for the reel recovery program.  Mike Davis will again be helping me out as well as representing the Project Healing waters program.  Both will be asking for donations.  My bead partner as well as Ken both attended the ReeL Recovery program and will receive my full support as well as 10% of the profits of the sale of Tungsten Beads.

 

See ya at the bug.