White River Arkansas Fly Fishing Trip For Trophy Brown Trout - Feb 2010
Had a great time fishing the White River for a week and definitely going back next year. I will be putting together a group trip for next Feb 2011 and will be putting details out on this page as I get them together.
Working big streamers is what produced the big browns for us! 8" baitfish seemed to be the perfect size for these giants. I tried a number of different rods and lines and my favorite was 9' 8wt TCX with either a Rio 300 grain 24' DC sink tip or Rio OutBound T-11. We had high water and getting down with a big fly was key.
Here were two of our best patterns when looking for a giant brown trout on the White River in Arkansas. These articulated Great Lakes Deceivers caught and moved some true world class trophy browns. The 8" Cotton Candy Rainbow was king on our trip!
Big streamers is what produced by far the best fish!! When fishing did get slow dropping down to small shad patterns produced some nice mid teen rainbow and browns.
Here some of the other bait fish patterns that worked very well on the White River - Bush Pig, Mag Rattling Murdich, Phantom.
When the big baitfish patterns were not working the large Conrad Sculpins had some good action.
The White River has such a great population of these mid size trout!
