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June 16, 2006 - Beaver - G'day y'all from the Beaver Dam Store crew!

TERRESTRIAL TIME
Summer fly fishing in the Ozarks means escaping the heat in the soothing cool of the White River, lazy evenings and misty mornings. Swinging soft hackles at dawn and big streamers, or a mouse on warm evenings. Bass bugs on the lakes and crawdads in the streams. And hopper, beetles and ants eveywhere.

Tossing terrestrials is one of our favorite activities during the summer months. If your not familiar with the term terrestrials are all those normally land based bugs which end up in the water. The wider family can include leafhoppers, crickets, cicadas, inchworms but the most common varieties around these parts are ants, beetles and hoppers. Fish love them all and can provide some of the best dry fly fishing of the year.

Warm windy afternoons are usually pretty good for this type of fishing. Lots of bugs blown out of the trees, bushes and grass along the banks. Look underneath and downstream of overhanging trees (there are a couple of obvious ones in Beaver). Often the most likely area to start looking for terrestrial feeders is the windward bank. But taller trees, higher winds can have the food landing further out from the bank. And don't forget the lee shore. After a couple of hours of wind the breeze will have pushed a nice supply of bugs over to the far bank, where you will often find a trout or two slurping down the feast.

Usually generation kills off any thoughts of dry flies on Ozark tailwaters, but not when bigger terrestrials are out. Tossing hoppers or ants into decent sized eddies and back waters, can be lethal at times. Risers are easier to see in the smooth flat parts of the eddy but look hard at the seams where the eddy and the main brush rub shoulders. Taneycomo, Bull Shoals and Beaver have several of these types of locations, where risers seems to almost feed at will.

Some of our favorite terrestrial patterns:
Hoppers: Club Sandwich, Dave's Hopper (from the Southern master Dave Whitlock), Charlie Boy Hoppers.
Ants: Schroeder's Parachute Ant.
Beetles: Lawson's Foam Beetle, Renegade, Red Tag (ask Steve about this easy tie Aussie standard), Hi-Vis Foam Beetle.
General Attractors: Stimulator (ok its a stonefly but it works); Chernobyl Ant; Turks Tarantula.

Don't forget most of the foam patterns above can slay panfish, smallmouth and even largemouth as well

Tight Lines from the Beaver Dam Store staff,
Lisa, Steve, Shirley, Tom, Dennis and Bryce

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