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Winter, 2012 Video!!

Brian Wise — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:17 +0000

Late last Fall I finally upgraded some of my video equipment (read that as i begged my wife for a DSLR so much she finally gave in). Before getting the DSLR I used very, very modest equipment and, to be honest, probably had better quality than I should have.....but it just wasn't "quite" what i was looking for. I will still use the GoPro, and the Xacti but I couldn't be more excited to show you the video withe everything working together.

Winter fishing this year was absolutely awesome. We hit a point where 22" browns on streamers were "cookie cutters" do I need to say anything else?

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Fall, 2011 Video

Brian Wise — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:51:23 +0000

Looking back what can I say about Fall.....I thought we were shot, dead. The main culprit, LOW water. You see, there are two different distinct portions of the Fall season-what we call "Pre-Spawn" and what we call "Post Spawn." Pre-Spawn is obviously early Fall where we are coming out of Summer, Summer generally means little to no rain so we have low, dead clear water.......and this is the time when 90% of people book guide trips. The Fall colors 'are' really pretty but man, fishing can be uber tough! The leaves drop, as do temps, as do guide trips, and then we usually start to get rain......rain, our saving grace. BOOM fishing comes back, this is our Post-Spawn fishing. This is a two-fer; with rain we have obviously better water, and post-spawn fish are trying to come back from a hard spawn--that is a double whammy that we LOVE....and exactly what happened this Fall.

As I type this the river is slowly coming down from a GREAT rise and I am getting ready to pound the banks with Justin Spencer from Sunburst.....the Winter is looking very promising.

Here you go guys, Fall 2011....a video for the ages (ok, not really)

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Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:17:56 +0000

Drift Boating the North Fork of the White

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:23:07 +0000

Fishadelic Foto Friday.....underwater release edition.

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:19:51 +0000

Four-Hand-Brown

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:17:42 +0000

Another....Big......Brown

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:30:30 +0000

ANOTHER big brown from the North Fork of the White River!

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:27:45 +0000

One of the best years of big fish on the North Fork of the White I have ever seen....

Fishadelic Foto Friday, ANOTHER big brown edition.

North Fork of the White River, Spring, 2011 Re-Cap Video!

Brian Wise — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:59:07 +0000

For the past year or so I have been putting these re-cap videos together of the seasons of the year. I am having an absolute blast with these and can't wait to start getting video and editing the next season. It's really neat the way it plays out....the vast majority of these shots are simply little clips of what I run into while I am guiding. I might be getting a little "long winded" with these but I end up with so much fun video through a season it is really hard to cut much of it.

Spring brought some of the best big fish fishing I have ever seen, the white bass were going crazy, we had a great bead on targetting hybrids and stripers (around the lake...where they are SUPPOSED to be) and then we got a little rain. Well, by "little" I mean something like 15 inches over too short of amount of time and the water got....really, really big. I seriously thought the majority of the Spring guiding season was shot, but it came back, and came back strong. We just ended the season with some of the most amazing big streamer fishing I have ever seen...big brown trout, nice rainbows, big smallmouth, oh.....and some of these massive Hybrids and Stripers to boot!!

Without further ado....Spring 2011!

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Flooding on the North Fork of the White River.

Brian Wise — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:51:29 +0000

With over a foot of rain in much of the North Fork of the White River's watershed over the last few days we are seeing an incredible amount of water in the river. This flood, although at one of the worst times of the year (losing a TON of guide trips and fishing in general) is actually a godsend. We have not seen a major rise in the river for around a year so a "flush" is much appreciated, even if it is a huge pain.

Looking downstream from Blair Bridge

With more rain coming early this week (April 25) look for levels to yo-yo for the next few days and then begin to drop out late this week. Fishable levels 'could' be reached as early as 2 weeks....but it could be longer.

Patrick Bridge