Norfork River, AR

TIME: 9:00 AM TO 12:30 AM
WEATHER: PC, Low to high 70s
WATER CONDITIONS: 0 Units
LOCATIONS FISHED: Norfork River, above 2nd Island above Ackerman above Ackerman-Handicap Access
ROD USED: 9’ 6 wt Winston LT
FLIES USED: #14 gray Norfork Scud, Wayne’s Fly, Big Ugly, #14 Flying Ant, #20 Dunn’s Dun, #20 Kay’s Grey
HATCHES: Midges
OTHER: Fished with son, Ron. As we walked in, there were 9 fishers fishing my usual riffle, with room for only 3! We began wading upstream, fishing the pool, and I caught several fish using Wayne’s setup. As we neared the bottom of the island below McClellan’s, Ron broke the code, and caught fish after fish on the river-right side of the leaf line using a #14 gray Norfork scud; he ended up catching about 3 dozen fish. The fish were midging like crazy, and I switched to midge emergers, but could not develop any consistency. Finally switched to terrestrials and caught a few fish; they slammed the terrestrials, but again, no consistency. Neither of us caught any large fish, but it was a good day.