The Little Red is my home waters. I’ve been fishing it for nearly 50 years and have many, many fond memories. Living out of state these days and I only get back once, sometimes twice a year but I always make time to do some fly fishing when back in town. Great access to some prime fly fishing sections of the river makes it enjoyable to all even if you don’t have a house on it. It is a true treasure.

just the type of channel we all need more of. "knowledge, don't hide it divide it."

Your channel is among the best on KZfaq for fly fishing Have you figured out any better methods / flies for when there’s no generation since this video? I was wading below Bull Shoals in Cotter a couple weeks back with no generation. Fishing was dead almost everywhere, but I still caught loads in a honey hole I had found on a previous trip. Was also on Beaver tailwater with no generation. Went out 6AM to 9AM. Got one single bite & luckily it was a 21in brown. Realized later I was too close to the dam where I caught him. There was no cable & I thought regulation was 100ft (it was 100 yds, oops).

I used to fish there nearly every weekend. It used to be loaded with sow bugs but couldn’t find any the last time I fished it. The bows are stocked and will eat anything. In the summer the guide boats will run over you if you’re wading.

Outstanding video. Love the edits, the info about each particular place you fish, the info about your setups and also the natural sounds of the outdoors as you fish. I watch a lot of fishing videos on KZfaq, but I don't subscribe to many channels--yours is exceptional. Keep up the good work!

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Good to see you come to this neck of the woods! Cut my teeth on the little red! Great place to learn to fly fish

Great video and glad to see ya out fly fishing. That is definitely a River I want to go to. Post some more trout videos!

I’m not a fly fishermen by any means tho I do know maybe just enough to squeeze a few chunkers on the fly I do know/fish the river all the way from the barbless trophy area you started at all the way to the Lobo ramp, an over the years I’ve made/experienced some wonderland adventures out there plus I’ve got family round yonder so y’all holler cause I could tell stories and ventures bout this river all year.

Great video

Great video and great fish! I just subscribed…I started my own KZfaq fishing channel a couple of months ago (I’m in Tulsa) and I really enjoyed your video. Keep up the good work!

Chronomidae (midges) is the dominant benthic fauna in the Little Red, and the dominant fish food. Then Isopoda (sowbugs), and ephemeropetora (mayflies) and trichoptera (caddis flies) are way down the list. I've heard it said that there's a hatch of small stoneflies that comes off, but I've never seen it in the fifty years I've been fishing the LR. Matter of fact, the amount of times I've seen even a sparse hatch of mayfly or caddis, I could count on one hand. Sowbugs are far less evident in the river grass these days, IME. My best fish ever was a 23" five pound male in spawning colors, on Turkey Day '77. It took a sowbug as a drift became a swing on Cow Shoals. Under a large overhanging tree, in a pocket. These days the pockets there are gone, flattened out over the years by the heavy flows. I'll stop here. I have a lot of criticism for the way the river became a cash cow for realtors.

Where was that third place you went to?

I don't live too far from there and love fishing that area. Next time you guys come up and want to fish, message me and I'll join you if you'd like.