East fork Guide services

12/03/2021

Mining for gold nuggets today on the BTW

11/30/2021

11/29 water levels are still above normal, but is safe to wad now.

11/26/2021

Please practice catch and release! 🎣

11/07/2021

11/7/21 Big hatch on the BTW last evening unfortunately the water was still to high in Swift to attempt dry flie

11/01/2021

11/1 water levels are still to dangerous to approach the river. Stay tuned for more updates! 

10/30/2021

River is very unsafe to approach at this time with rain from these past 5 days. 10/30 stay tuned for updates.

10/17/2021

Just another day in Paradise! 

10/17/2021

Rivers up 1.5 ft from normal levels best way to approach the water is to target 1-3 ft from the banks with green,white,black boogers or use medium size nymphs black,brown,tan anything with gold will help you a lot more too. a tight line set up 9-10 ft rods in 3-6 wt work best at these levels. ( Update ) 10/16 - 10/17 - 10/18 .? Water levels are still high.

10/11/2021

What You Should Bring.

Fly Rods (Smallmouth - 6-7wt with floating line. Trout - 4-5wt with floating line)
Fishing License (buy on-line)
Most of the time we wet wade in the warmer weather. In cold weather we will wear waders/boots - Cleats are recommended for wade trips. No cleats allowed in the boat on float trips.
Seasonally appropriate clothing, hat and raingear
Polarized Sunglasses (required) for eye protection and improved fish spotting
Sunscreen & Insect Repellent
Camera
Necessary medications or special dietary needs

What We Provide:

Streamside lunches and snacks - (Meals on full days - snacks on 1/2 days)
We provide loaner rods and reels if needed
We always carry basic flyfishing supplies such as flies, floatant, tippet, tools, etc.
We always try to find someone to shuttle vehicles (on float trips) to make the trip more convenient and pleasureable. When we can find a "spotter" (which is most of the time), we will have you meet us at the takeout, at which point the spotter will ride with us to the put-in while we drop the boat. Then the spotter will take the car/trailer back to the takeout point until where down with the trip.

10/11/2021

Here are some good sample setups

You can use these as basic guidelines to create your own rigs to provide enough visibility of the location of your flies (and hopefully fish movement) so you can quickly determine that you have a fish on.

• A small strike indicator followed by a size 18 wet fly on 5x tippet, followed by 18-24" of 6x or 7x tippet tied to the bend of the wet fly, with a #22 unweighted Pheasant Tail nymph as the point fly.

• A size 16 elk hair caddis fly on 5x tippet as "fly 1" with 24" of 6x tippet tied to the bend of the caddis and a small, unweighted midge emerger as the point fly.

• A "Hopper-Dropper" rig - A size 8 - 10 floating hopper or stonefly pattern on 3x-4x tippet, with 24-36" of 6x tippet tied to the bend of the hopper and a size 20 tiger midge as the point fly. The hopper fly should have enough flotation to be able to suspend the nymph without being pulled under.

The 4-hour guided wade is intended to assist experienced anglers in learning their way around the Brookville Tailwater, including understanding flows, the holes we fish, the flies we use, and the presentations that help you succeed.

10/11/2021

Description:
About East Fork White Water River
Brookville as it is so called, is one of the few trout fisheries in the state of Indiana. While flows fluxuate constantly due to the dam built by the Army Corps of Engineers, you will get into large fish if you know where to look and how to fish it. The state stocks it yearly with Rainbow and Brown Trout, while this is a put and take fishery, most fly fishermen practice catch and release.

Nearest Airport:
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport

Hatches:
Zebra/Midges (White and Black) Sow Bugs/scuds Caddis/Elk Wing Caddis Prince Nymphs Wooly Buggers (white) Parachute Adams
Best Time to Fish:

Early am or later in the pm

Best Stretch:
Dam to City Park
Best Access:
Fisherman's acess off Hwy 1 or Brookville City Park

10/10/2021

10/10/2021

As a young boy i never truly took fly fishing seriously until my teens and now as adult I look back to my younger days fly fishing for trout in the state of Maine , and it amazes me how much I have grown as a man being a fly fisherman but as a young boy I was unaffected by the world and was truly at my best not my true best but untouched by all the drama from the internet! i was in my zone teaching myself how to catch trout by matching the fly by standing in the brook looking for bugs well after finding one I would throw my close pattern out , and with that its amazes me how a small brook will make you very humble with all the overhang from trees but will steal your heart with just one brooktrout on a dry fly, even now I still look back to those days to remember the true meaning of being a fly fisherman it’s about Grace witch only comes with practice and humbleness to truly evolve into the elements of a master. But what is the meaning to be a master and now being adult I would say it doesn’t matter how much fish you catch nor how pretty your cast is , it’s about passing it on to the younger generations so they can teach the next generation about fly fishing.

So remember always pass it forward!

Matthew Cox

10/10/2021

Last weekend in the UP