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The New Fly Fishing the Ozarks!

Brian Wise — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:05:56 +0000

Hey all,

I just wanted to introduce you to the new Fly Fishing the Ozarks. As you can tell we have made some pretty drastic changes to the blog and now it is more like a site/blog....if that makes sense.

The first thing you'll notice is how different the blog looks. We now have several pages listed at the top and below is kind of a map explaining those pages(not in any specific order):

Home - This is the Blog....probably the reason you came to Fly Fishing the Ozarks in the first place--unless you came to see more of Matt Tucker.

Guide Services - Pretty self-explanitory. I am a guide, it has a bio and contact information--mostly River of Life stuff.

Photo Archive - This is, well, a photo archive. This is going to be changing as much as possible. There is an archive of all of the crazy Fishadelic Foto Friday photos along with some guiding photos and personal fishing photos.

Fishing Videos - Just some fishing and distance casting videos including the epic 2008 Missouri Trout Odyssey videos.

The Authors - Introduces you to the guys that type on the blog.

Tying Videos - An archive of the Fly of the Month videos (or the Fly of whenever I can get them uploaded)

So there it is, browse through and check everything out...let us know what we can do better, let us know what we are AWESOME at (if you have that much time to type) and let us know what you would like to see or see more of.

Thanks!

Fall Fishing Outlook North Fork of the White River

Brian Wise — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:15:35 +0000

A picture is worth a thousand words....

With a LOT of the canoe traffic slowing down, the nights cooling off, and already some leaves changing color it is time to look at the outlook for fall fishing. Besides, when you see temps in the high 40's in late August--you can't help but to look forward to fall fishing.

Usually when we think of fall fishing we think about water levels being low and crystal clear, not so much this year. We had a great summer with water levels staying as close to the 60 year average as we have seen in a while so the low and clear water we usually have this time of year really isn't there. With an above average prediction for rainfall in September we are looking (and hoping) for water levels to do very well.

With the water levels being higher than they typically are this time of year we are taking full advantage of it, we are still fishing bigger flies, and above that we are still getting away with heavier tippet. You see, the peak of the colors changing is pretty close to the peak of the brown trout movement as they get started in their spawn....which makes using 4x tippet to any given nymph and 3x + on streamers incredibly helpful and landing any "pig" you happen to hook--we like that

Finding the fish is usually pretty easy in the Fall. The deeper tailouts and deeper riffles are the go-to without a doubt. I have said it a thousand times but it demands to be said again, if you see a drop-off fish it HARD, especially in a faster running tailout. While nymphing, nymph DEEP (another thing I can't stress enough) lose flies! If you are a fan of stripping streamers jump all over ANY chance you get this fall...basically any low-light situation be it early morning, late evening, cloudy, rainy--all of this equals good stuff for streamers. Be aggressive with it, if I am personally stripping streamers for fishing I am not going to mess around--give me big and nasty and I'll strip it back like my life depends on it, unless the fish tell me otherwise.

The most beautiful time of year equals awesome fishing....even if the fishing is tough.

Brian Wise
Head Guide
River of Life Farm
www.riveroflifefarm.com

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:00:12 +0000

As always, if you have a photo that you want plastered on Fly Fishing the Ozarks after I completely mess with it send it to bnwise@gmail.com

Final trip of the year.

Brian Wise — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:35:05 +0000

Fished with Brent McClane of Feather-Craft yesterday, it was his first time on the North Fork of the White . Put the boat in at ROLF and floated to Blair. We had pretty good intentions of getting on the water a little earlier than the 9:30 I believe we actually started but with lost rod tube caps, mis-placed keys, and general bs'ing we didn't quite make it.It was one of those days where anywhere there is usually fish on the river they were caught, and usually with decent numbers. The day actually started off a little slow until we hit Cave Riffle and it was really consistant from there all the way to Blair. Mostly fished stones with an egg dropper. At one point I was looking through my flies and saw a stone that I hadn't tried in a long time, a rubber-leg. The rubber-leg was tied on and within 2 or 3 casts a fish took it. All but one of the fish we had caught before that fish were on an egg. As the fishing stayed steady I would say that probably 2 out of three fish were on that fly. Turns out old flies still work now....WHO would have thought! We stayed at ROLF that night while we waited on Tim Beeze, also with Feather-Craft to arrive for todays fishing (12-30.) We cooked pasta in an electric skillet and tried to devise a plan on how we were going to tie more rubber-legs and eggs...neither one of us brought our tying stuff for ONCE. Beeze arrived after taking the scenic route to ROLF and enjoyed pasta right along with us, we offered Beeze a casadilla made of Tortillas, EZ Cheese, and beef jerkey--an offer he turned down. We watched Borat as McClane (who will forever to me be referred to as McGyver) tied flies with hemos as the vise and vise grips as the base, and as Beeze boiled his pasta water over. Unfortunately I had to leave around 11:00 p.m. to help my wife run one of our boys to the ER with what we feared was pneumonia, turns out it was bronchitis and a breathing treatment later we left the hospital at around 3:45 a.m. so I missed todays fishing.

Great day of fishing, great company, and we saw NO other people on the river besides a couple of guys spin fishing the stellar water right in front of the boat ramp at Blair(yeah, not so "stellar" by the way) that proceeded to tell us about the "Blue Hole" that is above some waterfall on the river, which quickly we took down directions on how to get there.