ARKANSAS
TROUT
FISHING.
Three generations.
Same dock. Same river.
Ron, Debbie, and Dylan — keepers of the dock.
There are a lot of things we love about this Arkansas trout fishing business.
But the best thing is to see the difference in brand new guests
from the time they arrive to the time they get back to the dock at the end of the day.
You can sometimes see some tension and worry on their faces when they walk in our door for the first time.
When they get back to the dock after fishing, it's all gone.
Each one different.
All within sixty miles of the dock.
WHITE
The trout capital.
Tail-water fishery from Bull Shoals Dam. Cold, clear, year-round. Producer of multiple world-record browns. Our home water for seventy years.
NORTH FORK
The trophy hunter's river.
Smaller, technical, deeply storied. Brown trout the length of your forearm. Best fished slow and quiet, with the right fly tied tight.
BUFFALO
The wild one.
America's first National Scenic River. We hold an NPS-approved permit to outfit float trips here. Trout, smallmouth, towering bluffs, and no road access for hours at a time.
Build the trip
you came for.
No deposit required to hold a date. We respond within 24 hours.
Fifteen private acres.
At the confluence of two rivers.
No road in. No service. No neighbors. Wall tents pre-set with cots and lanterns. Three-meal-a-day shore cooking over oak coals. Camp trips run two to six nights — most groups choose three.
Three nights. A lifetime of stories.
Featured in Gourmet Magazine.
Cooked over oak coals.
Every trip includes meals. Not the freeze-dried kind. The kind that gets remembered.
Shore Lunch
Trout fileted on the gravel bar. Cast-iron over coals. Cornmeal, bacon grease, and a squeeze of lemon.
Steak Dinner
Ribeyes seared over oak. Foil-wrapped potatoes. Cast-iron biscuits. Whatever you brought to drink.
Campfire Breakfast
Eggs, bacon, hash, coffee from a percolator. Eaten with the rod already strung up beside you.
Stories included.
Free of charge.
World-record class brown, North Fork
Started running guests on day trips at 14. Knows every gravel bar by name.
Runs the dock, the kitchen, and the calendar
If you booked your trip, she was the one on the other end of the phone.
Specializes in trophy hunts on the North Fork
Posts the catch reports every Friday. Has fished every species we run.
Buffalo National smallmouth specialist
If you're chasing smallmouth, you want him in your boat.
Multi-day camp trip lead — chef and storyteller
His shore lunch is the one Gourmet wrote about.
The river, in real time.
Pulled from USGS gauges and our own dock readings. Updated every 15 minutes. Generation schedule from the Bull Shoals and Norfork dams via the SWPA.
"Wayne's group brought in 38 rainbows and a couple of nice browns this morning. Olive woolly buggers and pink trout magnets. Bite picked up around 9 when the sun hit the water."
200+ weekly fishing reports.
Every Friday since long before YouTube.
Late Spring Hatch · White River
They keep coming back.
Some for forty years.
We've been bringing the family back every June since the kids were small. Now the kids bring their kids. Ron knows them all by name.
I've fished six continents. The shore lunch on a gravel bar in Cotter is in my top three meals, anywhere.
First trip, my wife was nervous. By 10 AM she'd outfished me. Dylan's a saint.
We've been bringing the family back every June since the kids were small. Now the kids bring their kids. Ron knows them all by name.
I've fished six continents. The shore lunch on a gravel bar in Cotter is in my top three meals, anywhere.
First trip, my wife was nervous. By 10 AM she'd outfished me. Dylan's a saint.