Trophy Trout Fishing High Water

This spring rains might have brought much stress and high water to the Ozark Mountain Region, but it also brought beauty to the woods and new food sources to the waters. During the periods of higher water elevation, the trout of the white river gorged themselves with worms washed out from the river banks and fish that came over or through the spillways at Bull Shoals Dam. These trout had new feeding grounds for about a two week stretch and filled their bellies, helping them grow. The high water also helped many trophy brown trout downstream voluntarily or involuntarily out of their normal hidy-holes and revealing much of the natural beauty of the rock beds that lay underneath the white river where many of these big trout like to feed.