You should have been here last week
“You Should Have Been Here Last Week,” he said. “That so?” I said looking out the window; snow flurries flecking gray skies outside. The guide at Steve Dally’s Ozark Fly Fisher in Cotter, Arkansas didn’t let my lack of enthusiasm curb his. “Yep. Eighty degrees and sunny last week. Caddis coming off so thick you couldn’t breathe. Had two hundred fish days, all on dries, got tired of reeling ‘em in.” “Nice,” I said, peering at the weather app on my phone. 34 degrees. I shuffled to the fly bin, passing the elk hair caddis and found the micro flies. It was going to be a midge afternoon. Back up a week. Spring break approaches. Caddis reports on the White River sound promising. The long-range weather forecast looks great: sunny, temps in the high 60’s, touching 70. Even the generation reports are predictable. Minimum flows on the White River? I must be dreaming…And I was. Visions of drag-free drifts, big takes and big fish, the surface of the ri