Fly Fishing Guide Rec's for North Arkansas: UPDATE Pictures Posted

I've never gone there that time of year but I've caught tons of rainbows wade fishing in the fall. Not sure how the water is in the summer. We always stayed at rainbow drive resort in Cotter because it was cheap, and I'm pretty sure they have guides. Can't speak for the guides since I've never used them but the owners there are great people. Good enough for a bunch of college guys to make trips there multiple years.

Make the drive to mountain home. Find a spot downstream of the dam and buy some wooly boogers. Cast sideways across the current, let the current take your fly directly downstream and then slowly strip the fly back upstream. Just one method but landed lots of browns for us.

Also, pay attention to the schedule of water being released and when you notice it rising, get out. Can’t stress that enough because it rises quickly.

Rising River Guides

Matt is a very good friend of mine’s son.

He’s a very good fisherman and will work hard for you.

If you find yourself further south around Little Red

Also a suggestion, make sure you stop by Connie's Cafe. It's the best breakfast I've ever had.

I spent some time up there last fall, it was great. "Hogs on the fly" near mountain home or "the Ozark angler" in heber springs. Fished with both, and both were great.

Another/additional option is to bring your baitcaster and go rent a canoe and chase some smallmouth on your own. The Buffalo River is a Blue Ribbon Smallmouth fishery when the conditions are right.

I'm partial to two rivers fly just because I've been in there so much. My grandmother's house was about 100 yards down from his shop so I spent a lot of time just picking through the flies.

My grandparents guide service is a few hundred yards down the hill but its spin fishing mostly and has gone down so much since they sold that I'm not sure I would recommend them anymore.

I've met Matt, but do not know him well. I know his dad very well.

You will not be disappointed with him or anyone he suggest.

Taylor and Mickey Wooten with Flippin Fly Guides are awesome dudes. They know the White River very well and are open to whatever's catching trout ie nymphing, streamer, etc.

Flippin Fly Guides

Now that I'm back in the land of WiFi, I can post some pictures from the trip.

I didn't take too many pictures, and we didn't pose with many fish because they don't really want you handling the fish and you don't really have free hands fly fishing, but I tried to take a few. The pictures don't really do it justice when you're used to the muddy waters of South Louisiana, but the White River is a gorgeous place. I'm already trying to coordinate another trip back. Going with a guide in a boat is definitely the way to go, for someone with my level of inexperience, but sooner or later I'd like to get the point where i"m standing waist deep in a shaded mountain stream surrounded by nothing trying to catch one or two.