Quick Outing On The Ark Tailwaters ~ Couple Of Bigs & Some Smalls On Gorgeous Day 20Oct25

I headed solo on a nice Monday to the PT @ NC to fish. It's been a while and it was fun; I toted the RF True 5 loaded with a nymph rig. Flows were up over several days to ~300cfs, skies were clear, water was turbid and off with 3ft viz. The best performer was oddly a #22 rainbow warrior dropper (good for visibility I guess), but the MHFBPT worked too, as did the oil can Perdigon weight. I saw precious little bug sign but for a small & brief mayfly hatch @ 11am; it did not bring anybody up. Not many pics as I mostly forgot but one 20" cutbow was near and far to net 3 times before landing. I also saw a stork on the holes too, twice... on approach he moved on further upstream. Not epic and fishing was searching, not targeting, but not bad.