Flyguy66
I guess you never heard of Crooked Creek or the Bufffalo river in Arkansas for Smallmouth, Stripers,Hibred stripers, & White bass, Black Bass on flies on Lake Norfork.
You can have your bugs in Mi. & Ws, I'll stay in Arkansas
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Flyguy66
I guess you never heard of Crooked Creek or the Bufffalo river in Arkansas for Smallmouth, Stripers,Hibred stripers, & White bass, Black Bass on flies on Lake Norfork.
You can have your bugs in Mi. & Ws, I'll stay in Arkansas
Bob,
We know each other, and I've fished Crooked Creek and the Buffalo. I also grew up fly fishing the Spring River for smallies...probably the best in the state. But what I know about/you know about and how that stacks up to the number, variety, and quality of options in the entire state of MI (for example) are 2 different things. If you've spent much time fly fishing the Buffalo, Crooked Creek, the Spring, Eleven Point, Current, or Strawberry Rivers (all warmwater in AR), then you know that a fly angler is a rare sight on these streams. In fact...in my experience...it's almost always someone who isn't from AR. In MI this isn't the case. And that's what Deeter is referring to when he speaks about a "cultural affinity for fly fishing." Personally, I love fly fishing in northern AR and southern MO. I probably put almost 2,000 days on the streams of the Ozarks between 1998-2008. That doesn't begin to count the time as a boy. And I made a trip back in 2009 for about a week. But where I love to fish has nothing to do with Kirk Deeter's F&S list of 12 best fly fishing states in America.
Just to look at this from a different perspective...
I tend to look askance at articles on .22 Hornets, nostalgic articles on panfish and catfish fishing, and articles that center around a list that the author has put together. They often strike me as filler. Maybe the author owed the publisher/editor/etc... an article, or the magazine wanted something like that to balance out its perception of its own article demographics. But it strikes me as being the sort of article that is easy to come up with and bound to catch the eye of potential customers browsing the magazine racks. I take it as a given that if there is mention on the cover of a .22 Hornet article chances are it's about a page long, then it is going to be all about how that cartridge is still relevant and useful today because of its low noise and recoil. A lot of us are fond of that cartridge and I can only guess that those articles sell magazines. Lists that tell you where to go hunting/fishing/etc... are the same. It answers two appetites. One is the ego issue of "How well is my home water/area/range... rated". The other is to stimulate ideas on where I might wish to go, either for day dreaming or to actually plan a trip.
The preceding is merely my opinion and your own is welcomed to differ.
Besides, everybody knows there ain't no fish in Tennessee...
Ed