http://www.anglingreport.com/rss/rss.cfm Fishing Articles From Our May Issue Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=692 Subscriber John Foster writes: “I just returned from Acklins Island in the southern Bahamas, where I enjoyed one of the best and most unusual bonefishing trips I have ever been on. My fishing buddy, Pete, and I found the trip online after coming across a guy named Fedel Johnson, who has lived and guided around Acklins Island all his life. Fedel offers a unique trip: you don’t just fish with him; you also share his house, his food, and his abundant hospitality. After some correspondence, we decided to book a trip. “There are two airlines that serve Acklins Island and Crooked Island. We flew Bahamas Air, which makes the trip on Wednesdays and Saturdays. You can also fly Pineapple Air, which flies Mondays and Fridays. On either of these airlines, you pretty much have to overnight in Nassau to catch the early and only fly-out to the islands. With a little luck, you can make it all the way home on your return flight in one day..... Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=692 http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=694 Now, here’s a dandy of a float trip for trout on the North Fork of the White River. It’s available in a part of the United States we have almost nothing about in our database, namely, Missouri. Correspondent Kathy Etling filed the report. “I learned about Kyle Kosovich, owner-operator of Longboat Outfitters (<A href="http://www.longboatoutfitters.com/">www.longboatoutfitters.com</A>), while surfing the Web for new wild trout fishing opportunities near my Midwestern home. Wild trout are few and far between in this region, which is why Kosovich’s service was so intriguing. It was also intriguing to learn that Kosovich constructed his outfit’s boats, by hand, from plans of the old johnboats used by Jim Owen and Charlie Barnes, fabled White River fishing guides back when the river still flowed freely. “Seven springs contribute to the North Fork of the White River, which is the main stream Kosovich fishes. Its chilly flow provides near-perfect habitat for trout. It more closely resembles a fast-moving western trout stream than a typical Ozark river. In all, 67 miles of the river flow southward through Missouri. Both rainbow and brown trout abide here. Browns have not been stocked since 1996; stocking for rainbows ceased back in the 1960s..... Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=694 http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=691 As a native son of the Great Smokies who has been privileged to fish all over the United States and much of the world, I have retained a special love for the region I’m from, especially the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GSMNP). That’s partly due to the natural affection one feels for home waters, but there are additional reasons, and those may be of interest to anglers who travel. The GSMNP offers the greatest ecological diversity of any place in North America, which translates to fishing in a vegetative paradise of wildflowers and soaring trees. Then there’s the “something for everyone” aspect of the hundreds upon hundreds of miles of trout-holding water in the park. You can fish at roadside or take shank’s mare (a mountain term for walking) to get back of beyond. Indeed, those who are fit and adventurous can, with sufficient effort, bushwhack to small headwater streams that see very little angling pressure. At the other extreme, there are also waters here that offer lots of elbow room, the Little River, for example, and the Oconaluftee River and Hazel Creek. To me, the most appealing of all the many attractive features of fishing for trout in the park is that you are casting exclusively to wild trout—ones born and bred in the waters where they swim. The GSMNP has not done any stocking for many decades. On some streams (Bradley Fork, Straight Fork, and Beech Flats Prong on the North Carolina side of the park are good examples) it is even possible to catch a Smoky Mountain Slam. That involves catching all three species of trout found in park waters, namely, rainbows, browns, and brookies (locals call the latter specks or simply mountain trout), in a single day’s outing..... Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=691 http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=693 In our page 3 report this month, we said that the new wave of do-it-yourself fishing was spreading beyond the Bahamas and even beyond traditional flats fishing for bonefish, tarpon, and permit. Witness what is happening down in south Texas, where agent Mark Cowan of Pescador Solitario (<A href="http://www.remoteflyfishing.com/">www.remoteflyfishing.com</A>) has leased a waterfront house on South Padre Island where visiting anglers can create their own custom trip with days of guided fishing broken up by days of on-your-own wade fishing, mostly for redfish. Cowan writes: “The three-bedroom, two-bath house we’ve rented is right on Laguna Madre Bay, where the guides we have on standby can pick you up at the front steps. Alternately, you can wade miles and miles of shallow water on your own looking for redfish, speckled trout, and ladyfish, or you can search the gulf side for jacks, tarpon, and king mackerel. The way you mix guided and unguided days is entirely up to you. So is the level of service you want at the house. More on that in a moment..... Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=693 http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=695 The desire to find new places to fish where a nonfishing spouse can have fun is a recurrent theme among Angling Report subscribers, so we always publish in their entirety any reports we receive along those lines. The following, from Honor Roll subscriber John W. Harrison, is a real dandy. Thanks, John, for staying in touch! “I would imagine there are many fly fishermen my age (retired with adult children) who are looking for places with good fishing that also offer activities that will occupy their nonfishing spouses. Over the past few years, I have found several such places (the Elk River in Fernie, British Columbia; Isla Holbox in Mexico; and Pelican Bay on Grand Bahama Island), but in all these places either the fishing is better than the opportunities for the nonanglers or vice versa. Enter the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos. “My wife I went to Providenciales (or Provo, as everyone calls it) this past January and both of our expectations were amply fulfilled. Grace Bay, a fabulous six-mile-long white sand beach on Provo has everything your nonfishing partner could wish for, including beautiful resorts, luxury shops and spas, plus many fine restaurants and a wide range of activities and excursions..... Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.anglingreport.com/current_issue.cfm?id=695