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Earlier in the month some shad came through the dam then quit. Last week shad started coming through again. Mostly in short burst and not always floating to the surface but from time to time they did. This event sure makes for some great fishing as you can see below. The fish on the upper end of the river are getting fat like footballs. The downside to a shad kill is that too many shad will come through and the fish will gorge themselves and stop feeding. In this case we simply move further down stream. For more information read this article Shad Kill Article
Sean from Little Rock has one big smile on his face after he hooked and landed this 27 1/4 inch brown trout. His buddy Eric below hooked and landed this fish shortly after.
On Wednesday Mike “maddog” Davis hooked and landed this fish. 26 3/4 inches. Mike has been fishing with me for a decade.
Below is James Albert of Monroe La with the fish he caught on Thursday. James is an exceptional fisherman and can cast anything one puts on the end of a fly line including some pretty big streamers.
This short video below shows the gulls looking and diving for thread fin shad to eat.
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On Thursday the spillway or flood gates were shut down and the Conduit gates were open. These gates are underneath the settling pool. I’m not sure but I think there are 4 of them and it looked like there was one on and to the left it looks as though there is another one on but not open very much. A total of 30,000 CFS or roughly 9 to 9 1/2 full generators. Some boat ramps at this time are not very boat launching friendly such as the ones at the State Park and the ones at Wildcat Shoals and White Hole.
This image below is of a thread fin shad I netted out of the river on Wednesday. Fish fattening food for our trout. On the previous post you will find an image of some of the shad patterns we use.
When we see the ring billed gulls circling and diving into the water there is a pretty good chance those gulls are picking up thread fin shad that are coming through the dam. This was the case in January as well as February when we started to actually see the shad. It’s a great time to fish the White River in Arkansas if you can handle a bit of cold weather. Bring more clothing than you think you need. Ideally we like to see the shad come through the dam floating on the surface. I who does not like to fish on the top? It’s way too much fun fishing on the top!