This is Scott Branyan’s personal blog. Scott is a native “Arkansawyer” born on Crowley’s Ridge, thirty miles from the White River. His folks moved to Ohio during his elementary school years. They returned to Arkansas in 1969—this time to Fayetteville. Scott began hunting and fishing the Ozarks at that time. Scott earned his undergraduate degree in vocal music at the U of A. He also holds a master’s degree in theology in Old Testament and Semitics from Dallas Theological Seminary. Scott and his wife Sharon returned to Northwest Arkansas in 1987. For eight years he worked on his in-laws’ blueberry farm. After moving to the White River community of Monte Ne, he opened Ozark Fly Flinger guide service in 1996. Scott now guides for a living on Arkansas’ White River tailwaters using wooden McKenzie boats he builds.
Scott wrote a regular fly-fishing column for the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas from 2001-2009. Besides guiding, he is currently researching a book on the White River and has written several entries on the history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its White River projects for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. He is also an Arkansas Master Naturalist. He enjoys teaching small group Bible studies as his schedule permits. Scott is an evangelical committed to the fundamentals of biblical inerrancy, creationism and sovereign grace.