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Project Healing Waters and ROLF’s Outdoor Channel Show now online!

Brian Wise — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:44:22 +0000

Last month the River of Life Farm and Project Healing Waters were featured on Outdoor Channel Outfitters…a GREAT show on the Outdoor Channel. For those who didn’t get to see the show don’t fret….it is now online.

View away!

http://www.outdoorchanneloutfitters.com/Outfitter.aspx?id=238

September Fly of the Month…Harry Fodder

Brian Wise — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:03:40 +0000

Around my house the Harry Potter movies are what we like to call, well, awesome. I’m not talking the books are better than the movies–none of us have read any of the books, we are more “movie people.”

Now if you were to mix Smallmouth and Harry Potter together there would be a warp in the space/time continuum and that lake around Hogwarts would probably surrounded by eager fly fisherman….where am I going with this? Anyway, for the September fly of the month we have a seriously great smallmouth fly with oneo f the most innovative tying/fishing techniques I have seen on new flies for this year. You see, this fly has a rubber gasket holding on the hourglass eye…allowing you to switch out size, color, or no lead eyes–seriously. I have fished this fly over the summer and will personally vouch for it working well in med/fast water (personally I put on heavier eyes than it comes with but no biggie) Rabbit strips and Sili-Legs, need I say more?

September Fly of the Month–The Harry Fodder

To order the coolness click HERE

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:16:30 +0000

I didn’t realize what I was missing….SALTWATER!

From Pat,

Fishadelic Foto Friday…PERMIT Edition!

Stick around, more of these to come….and as always if you have a photo you want me to mess with and throw on here for the world to see shoot it to bnwise@gmail.com

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

August Fly of the Month — Hogan’s Bass Cracker

Brian Wise — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:56:59 +0000

I recently had the chance to fish a PILE of Idylwilde bass flies….you see, it is Smallmouth time in Southern Missouri and it is pretty hard for me to peel away from those scrappy fish to guide trout–but you do what you have to do. These Idylwilde flies are super cool, just look ‘fishy’, and they CATCH FISH.

To be honest I was more excited about some of the cool top-water flies like the Warm Water Whammy and a baitfish imitation called the BellyDancer….but I had this super heavy, very driftable fly called “Hogan’s Bass Cracker” in the mix as well. First cast with a Bass Cracker — Fish On! This thing is not for the faint of heart as it has one purpose, to get deep, QUICK but it is insanely effective. It drifts very, very well on a tight line through your favorite smallmouth runs and bottom bounces in the slow deep pools just as well. Give it a shot!

Outdoor Channel–Round 3

Brian Wise — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:28:08 +0000

This week River of Life Farm and Project Healing Waters will be featured on Outdoor Channel Outfitters on, what else but the Outdoor Channel. Air dates and times are Monday, August 2nd, at 8:00 am, Tuesday, August 3rd, at 6:30 am, and again on Saturday, August 7th, at 1:30 pm. Be sure to watch as Project Healing Waters, one of the best groups in fly fishing helping wounded soldiers through fly fishing, and ROLF, THE premier lodge on the North Fork of the White River, team up to bring you a great show!

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:37:45 +0000

In his second appearance on Fishadelic Foto Friday the Silver Surfer learns how to row the Clacka. On a side-note, by the looks of his trunks he is a Spiderman fan…..who would have thought?

Fishadelic Foto Friday…..Silver Surfer edition, dos.

New Video! Spring 2010 Guiding Re-Cap

Brian Wise — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:29:17 +0000

This Spring brought some GREAT fishing to the North Fork of the White River. Usually Spring tends to bring some big rains to the watershed which also means some flooding occurs but that didn’t happen at all this spring. We literally had perfect water conditions with a couple of little bumps in water levels which did nothing but excite us even more….Big Fish water you might say.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Top 10 list for Spring 2010:

10. Drift Boats Rule

9. Tornados suck

8. “Aren’t you hot wearing long sleeves” (says a sunburned floater to me)

7. hit him, Hit Him, HIT HIM!!

6. Fly Fishing Guides can get a tangle out of anything

5. Bats eat flies that are dangling from a tree limb.

4. mend….mend…..mend….mend

3. Drift Boat anchors crush beer cans awesomely!

2. Aiming a drift boat anchor to crush a beer can just right…not so easy

1. Big Fish like the Big Black and Meaty fly!!!!!

Fly of the Month–June, 2010

Brian Wise — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:46:47 +0000

After a year long hiatus (we hear he left to hike the AT and was side-tracked by a hippie girl along the way) the Fly of the Month is back….with a vengeance.

Officially summer starts this month…..and, to me, that means 2 things–Smallmouth and Night Fishing (along with cold beer so make that 3 things.) I have a huge passion for smallmouth and to be honest, if trout didn’t get to be so BIG I would hardly fish for them compared to smallmouth. I was never much of a lake fisherman but all fisherman have heard of the deadly “Jig and Pig” combo…and that is exactly what the June fly of the month represents–in fly form.

The June, 2010 fly of the month…..The Grim Reaper

When I fish for smallmouth I am throwing one of 2 things 90% of the time, a topwater popper of some kind or a craw-type imitation. The Grim Reaper has everything I look for in a bottom-crawling-creature…..flared rubber skirt, plump body, heavy head.

Fish on!

Podcast featuring the North Fork of the White River

Brian Wise — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:12:54 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to speak to the Trout Unlimited group out of Branson. As we wrapped up the program I was talking to a guy by the name of Rick Coffman. I had heard some of his podcasts in the past and they were crazy entertaining so naturally when he asked if I would be interested I jumped on it! To make a long story short we recorded the podcast and did an “on-stream” interview and it went really well.

To listen to the podcast click the link below or the Liv2 Fly Fish Logo to the left. While there check out some of his other podcasts and photos.

Click Here for the North Fork of the White Podcast with Brian Wise.