Fly Fishing Helps

Be sure to also search the video post category on the blog for instructional videos.

Ten Mistakes Anglers Make (PDF)

New! (1/10/08)

How to Fill Your Fly Box (PDF)

New! (1/10/08)

Understanding the Spawn

Facts and arguments against fishing to spawning trout.

White River Access

A visual and text description of access points (under development).

AGFC Snake Guide

A fact booklet on Arkansas snakes.

Important! Didymosphenia Geminata fact sheet from ADEQ

A fact sheet on the nuisance algae that is growing in the White River tailwaters.

Understanding The White River System

Seven part series from the Army Corps of Engineers explaining how and why the agency operates six multi-purpose lakes in the White River basin.

Annotated Fly-Fishing Bibliography

Rising Water (Quick Time Movie File 4.7MB)

Anglers coming to the White River tailwaters for the first time can have a hard time understanding the daily and extreme fluctuations in river stages that can occur due to hydropower generation. Here's a time-lapsed narrated video showing the beginning of rising water at Rim Shoals on Bull Shoals tailwater. It at least gives an inkling of what one may expect. Video lasts about 6-minutes.

Understanding Minimum Flow