Pros

I was eleven when I cast my first fly rod on a family vacation to Yellowstone National Park, and when that sixteen-inch cutthroat sucked down my size twelve yellow Humpy, I was the one who got hooked!  I grew up in Russellville, Arkansas about an hour-and-a-half drive from the Little Red River, and that’s where I cut my teeth chasing Ozark tailwater trout—especially once I turned sixteen and could drive myself to the river!  After five years in New Mexico—ostensibly for college, but actually to fly fish—I moved back to Arkansas and managed a fly shop for three years before opening McLellan’s Fly Shop in Fayetteville in the spring of 2003.  Over the last eleven years, we’ve grown into a full-service fly shop offering a broad spectrum of fly tying and fly fishing classes, local guide trips as well as hosted trips to more exotic destinations. 
 

Even before I started guiding and working in a fly shop, I’ve always been a huge fan of Scott Fly Rods.  Whether I was fishing the big Ozark tailwaters as a kid or the tiny headwater streams of the Jemez Mountains during my college years, Scott always had a rod perfectly matched to each type of fishing, and the same holds true today.
 

One of the things I love most about Arkansas is the sheer variety of fly fishing opportunities that the Natural State has to offer.  The five tailwaters of the White River System provide excellent year-round trout fishing, and whether I’m casting tiny midges with my G2 or chucking big, articulated streamers with the new Radian for trophy brown trout, Scott has a rod to cover all of the varied fishing conditions we face on our White River Tailwaters.  When I’m fishing our annual white bass and walleye run in the spring, the Scott L2H and T3H switch rods are perfect for covering the water.  When chasing schooling stripers on our big lakes, I pull an S4S out of my rod tube.  May through October we have excellent fishing for our native smallmouth bass, and my A4 McLellan’s Warm Water Special gets called into action, but if the bass bite slows, I’ll crack a beer, string up an F2 and have a blast with the bluegill!