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Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:08:10 +0000

It is warming up.....water temps are getting there.....bring, on, TOPWATER!

Fishadelic Foto Friday....Topwater Bass Edition!

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:09:07 +0000

Here's to warmer temps and summer-time smallmouth on Bryant Creek....

New Video: Summer Smallmouth Fishing…with Idylwilde

Brian Wise — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:55:00 +0000

A while back I contacted Idylwilde about making a video on smallmouth fishing with some of their cool new Bass flies. They were game so I got some flies and ran straight to the river....and proceeded to lose that whole box of flies (that story can be found here)

Either way, smallmouth fishing has been GREAT this summer and the fam and I have been hitting them hard....real hard. As I have said before, if those dang trout didn't get SO BIG you couldn't peel me away from smallmouth water.

So here is probably a video that will be two-fold, part sneak peek at the "Summer 2010 Re-cap" video, part awesome Idylwilde Flies promo....either way I thought it was fun.

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Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:05:34 +0000

Adding a little warmth to this winter...

Passing it on Video

Brian Wise — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:55:17 +0000

That sneaky "Publish" button got a little quick on the draw...you see I meant to post this video at the bottom of the "Back to my roots.....and passing it on" post.

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Back to my roots….and passing it on.

Brian Wise — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:42:56 +0000

As a new fly fisherman there is NO better way to learn how to hook, fight, and just plain catch fish than fishing for bluegill. Notorious fighters, and absolutely gorgeous, these fish are the reason a LOT of fisherman got hooked on fishing at a young age....not a lot of species can say that.

I learned how to catch fish on a fly rod with bluegill. I have 2 little boys (6 and 4) and both of them are trout fisherman, and on the fly at that. Recently I realised that neither of them had caught a single bluegill on the fly rod and we really needed to change that. I loaded a fly box full of floating foam bluegill bugs along with some small colorful woolies, stopped by the store to fill the cooler with Capri-Sun and Oreos and we were off. Florence C. Cook's landing on the Bryant Creek is where I caught my first fish on a fly rod (and MANY more after that) so that had to be where we went. With the drift boat in-tow we were after it, there was a rowing lesson in store for the boys too.

As usual the bluegill were quick to eat...real quick.

The bow of most drift boats fits a kid nicely...and is often a source of a fight among my boys as to who gets to sit in it first. This trip the youngest won with a sweet left hook that big brother didn't see coming at all.

The rowing lessons went well, the anchor was down to get the most out of the training but it went well.

So while little brother was on the sticks and protecting the boat from supposed somali pirates:

big brother decided to bust out some slabs....

The thing is, they had a blast. We did some swimming lessons (none of that pansy pool swimming lessons, they fought the current like little men) but I can honestly say that this was a fishing trip where I fished WITH my boys...catching fish right along with my eldest and handing the rod off to my youngest to strip in a fish. Some nice bluegill were caught but the thing both of them keep talking about and rolling belly laughing about is the little fish---that unmistakable sound of a tiny bluegill that is too small to take a floating bug is a sound that I hope all three of the Fly Fishing the Ozarks readers know....

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Fishadelic Foto Friday!

Brian Wise — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:00:41 +0000

Some bling for the camera....

Fear No Limb!

Brian Wise — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:04:47 +0000

As I'm sure you know there was a little bit of an ice storm here in the mid-west. One or two limbs fell and I had my boat parked in one of the worst spots I could have parked it at my place....but the Clack stands tall after taking a beating. "Fear No Rock" meets "Fear No Limb!"

Bryant Creek, smallmouth baby!

Brian Wise — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:57:06 +0000

My brother-in-law and I decided it had been WAY too long since he got to do some serious fishing (we are using the word "serious" very loosely here) so we had to go. I also had a chance to see how dropping the boat in at a fairly questionable spot and sliding it to the water worked as well becuase our usual put-in had pretty much been washed out with the floods early this year.

Fishing was "different" to say the least. It is August, August....so we put in early preparing for a crazy good bite early and then a slight lull. It didn't exactly happen that way, we caught a couple early but didn't really get into them until what probably should have been the lull of the day.

For your viewing pleasure....Bryant Creek Smallmouth!

The fly version of a Gitzit, killed them...but I only had one.

A shout to all the Ozark Dead Drifters Society members!

Fat Tire....

Good Times