Jim caught his January fish after noting he didn't know that was a thing till Andy mentioned his goal of 1 trout every month. He caught a nice 17" cutbow on the town section of the PT near the football stadium. It was not an epic day of catching there but we each caught fish on our first outing to this section. We parked in a ghetto spot in stadium parking with a couple of cop cars watching as we pull next to windshield glass on the ground. Oh well ~ ultimately it was no problem and a gorgeous 65° day on the Arkansas. Blood midges were the best today - always on the line on the tailwaters in the winter. We fished from the scramble point down embankment to the murals upstream to two weirs above the walking bridge. The walking bridge is a great spotting point and on our day the better fish had move downstream from the hole just above the bridge to 20 yards downstream on the left side (looking upstream) of the river. While I targeted some 22" fish I saw, I didn't hook up - the floats were especially challenging in the slower flat water below the walking bridge. We ran across Hopper Juan Ramirez on the river being guided himself by a local - they did about like us, maybe a little better. A good outing for January but far from epic. Thanks Andy & Matt for alerting us to the section features.
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