Joel | November 28, 2009
Here’s a series of photos shot at Broken Bow and sent last week from Dusty Montgomery. If you have fished much in Oklahoma (or any stocked areas for that matter), you recognize the fish on the top – your typical “right-out-of-the-truck” stocked Rainbow (and even that one has better color than usual). The fish in [...]
Joel | November 8, 2009
I made a trip to SE Oklahoma this past Thursday to check the Lower Mountain Fork through Beaver’s Bend State Resort. The buzz has been fairly heavy about the area – message boards were filled with dread about the proposed repair to the turbines and the associated flood of water that was to be released [...]
Joel | November 1, 2009
Not much to report over the last month except precipitation – LOTS of precipitation. Many locales in north Texas received 10 – 15″ of rain in the past month, with most of the Ray Roberts drainage coming in at 12-13″. The last round of rain early last week put the lake up to 3 feet [...]
Imagine wading through ten inches of clear water,trying to be as quiet as possible. Fifty feet ahead is a pod of large fish "tailing" on the flat. You strip out fly line, make the cast, and pull your fly in front of the lead fish. After agonizing seconds the fish spots the fly, rushes forward for a quick grab, and feels the hook. The silence is broken as the fish accelerates across the flat, quickly exposing backing on your screaming reel. Sounds like a great day on the coast, or even an exotic bonefish flat, right? Actually it's a great description of the usual day my clients have fishing for Carp on the flats of Lake Ray Roberts where many clients are blown away by the water clarity and the actual ability to sight cast along miles of flats. Big spooky fish in shallow water. They fight and tail like Redfish and can sometimes rival Bonefish in nervousness. This is an EXCELLENT WAY to hone your flats fishing skills and test your "eyes" where it's more about stalking the fish than simply stumbling upon them. You will be a better flats angler!