Trip Report: North Fork Of The White River

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  • Dec 27, 2011 at 3:46 am #5792
    Matt Tucker
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    With all the photos of the fish floating around, I thought I would share a few too.

    Two weeks ago, Craig Peterson and I headed down to the North Fork of the White River for the maiden voyage of my new drift boat (I traded in my Hyde highside (yes the $800 drift boat), for a Hyde LowPro XL).  The trip was one of those trips you don’t think you are going to have it, until you do.  Below are a few photos.  We threw streamers the entire trip when fishing from the boat, and nymph rigs when we got out and wade fished.

    Photo # 1
    Craig Peterson with a nice North Fork of the White River brown trout.  This was the first fish, caught on the first cast, of the first drift with my new boat.  Not a bad way to start off the maiden voyage of the new boat.

    Photo # 2
    The heads on the NFOW fish are pretty impressive.

    Photo # 3
    A look at the layout of the new boat, as we stopped to wade on our float.

    Photo # 4
    We nymphed a bit, when we got out and wade fished.

    Photo # 5
    Craig with his biggest brown trout to date, this was caught within site of the take-out on a last cast.  Yes the fish gods were smiling upon him.

    Photo # 6
    All fish caught were released.

    Photo # 7
    I got in on the action on Sunday morning, with my first fish out of the new boat.

    All in all it was a great trip.  We floated solo on Saturday, and Brian joined us on Sunday for a quick float.  Lots of good times to be had in the future for sure.  Who needs a tailwater……

    –Matt Tucker

    Dec 27, 2011 at 2:41 pm #50971
    Tim Pommer
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    Nice fish Matt!

    Dec 27, 2011 at 4:31 pm #50972
    Avatar photoJustin Witt
    Member

    Sweet looking browns Matt!

    Dec 27, 2011 at 4:55 pm #50973
    Matt Tucker
    Member

    Justin:

    We were above Norfork Lake and its dam that creates the Norfork tailwater.

    Dec 27, 2011 at 11:06 pm #50974
    jarrod white
    Member

    I sure remember McClellans myself 🙂 some of my best fishing memories of the past years started when I stepped off the right side of that dock and headed up to the long riffle. Great times I am sure for a lot of people!
    Nice fish too Matt, and thanks for sharing the photos , they are awesome too.

    Dec 28, 2011 at 1:51 am #50975
    Avatar photoTim Angeli
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    Nice photos Matt.

    Dec 28, 2011 at 8:19 pm #50976
    Zach Matthews
    The Itinerant Angler

    Great big brown trout.

    Dec 29, 2011 at 1:45 pm #50977
    Matt Tucker
    Member

    Zach:

    That weekend was the best weekend, for big fish, that I had seen yet on the NFOW.

    Dec 29, 2011 at 3:01 pm #50978
    Avatar photoColin M.
    Member

    Man those fish have some big ol’ hooked jaws!

    Dec 29, 2011 at 3:23 pm #50979
    brian wise
    Member

    Great big brown trout.  Be glad that pic isn’t in my article in next month’s Fly Fisherman.  🙂  We made the river seem as average as possible hahaha.

    Zach

    We made it look average in the middle of Summer.

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