I was 17 years old in February of 1970 when I watched a fishing show on television that featured Jerry McKinnis trout fishing on the White River below Bull Shoals Dam. I was already a fanatic fisherman, but sitting in the living room of my small family home in North...
Every summer for the last few years my family has taken a short 3 day vacation trip to a trout stream in Northern Arkansas. We rent or borrow a cabin and invite all the kids and grandkids. In July of 2019 our friend Elaine loaned us her river house on...
One cold sunny Friday morning in late March my friend Mark, his son, Garrett and I headed toward Beaver Dam for a day of tailwater trout fishing. I had called “the phone number” the night before to check the generation schedule and the recording said “one generator running from midnight to...
Because there are so many facets to this Lake Taneycomo trout story, it's hard to know where to begin. The prime fact is that Paul Crews of Neosho, MO, landed the biggest brown trout Saturday anyone's ever caught in the state of Missouri to date. It was officially weighed by...
Not many people get to helicopter fish for silver salmon, but my friend Jim has taken me a few times to a unique resort tucked back in a sound in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest. Nimmo Bay is accessible only by boat, float plane or helicopter. The fog rises slowly every...
