Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Report for Rainbow Trout, Bass

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Fly Fishing Guadalupe River Below Canyon Lake

Guadalupe River Striped Bass Caught By Don Holmes in the Trophy Trout Zone

Devils River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: April, 5th, 6th 7th and 8th, 2011. Devils River flow at Baker's Crossing 145 CFS. Water crystal clear at 76 degrees F. Our expedition team had the pleasure of hosting Al Perkins, with Costa Del Mar and his ad agency and good friends from Austin, Bryan Jesse, Mark McGarrah and Linda. We encountered great weather conditions and the fish were cooperating too. Everyone toured the Devils River canyon by helicopter. Our pilot is a neighboring rancher and he's a great tour guide too! See pictures below.

Devils River Fly Fishing Helicopter Tour

Fly Fishing Devils River Texas Heli Tour

Fly Fishing Texas Hill Country

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: March 21st, 2011. Water level low, but very fishable. Half day fly fishing lesson with Barry Brupbacher and his buddy produced two beginning fly fishers. After our stream side casting lesson, we hit the water and put our new skills to work.

San Marcos River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Monday May 2nd, 2011. San Marcos spring flow 137 CFS. Water temp 75 degrees F. Half day lesson/float trip with Tom Roberts and his two friends produced three beginning fly fishers. After our stream side casting lesson, we got into the rafts and floated about three river miles. Along the way, we landed several large sun fish and a couple of nice bass. Pretty good start!

San Marcos River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Saturday May 14th, 2011. Flow 120 CFS. Water clear with green tint. We hosted Doyle Mosier with Texas Parks and Wildlife Inland Fisheries, Greg and Kelly Wilkinson and their new in-law Phil. We did a day trip from County Road 101 to Skull's Crossing. Overall, a pretty slow day; but we managed to land a few nice fish. Doyle Mosier is pictured with a nice largemouth bass.

San Marcos River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Wednesday May 18th, 2011. Spring flow approximately 120 CFS. Water clear with light green tint. Trip with Kevin Huchison, and his good friend, and client Don Canada (Boat show producer San Antonio and Austin), yielded several nice bass and sunfish. Don brought his boys; they were fun to be with.... and they could fish!

Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Wednesday May 25th, 2011. Water low, and clear, with light green tint; but very fish-able. Half day fly fishing lesson / float with Dave Rentschler and his son Andrew, from Austin, produced a couple of really nice bass and many sunfish. The guys did a good job of learning new techniques and casting. This was a good introduction to fly fishing for both.

Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Updated Saturday July 16th, 2011. Dave Overstrum from Connecticut joined us for a half day fly fishing float for bass. There weren't any other user groups until we got off the water before noon. We encountered many brightly colored sunfish, small fiesty bass and several hook ups with larger bass too. We hugged the shade of the big pecan trees and cypress trees for a comfortable morning. We saw whitetail deer, hawks, herons, ducks and lizards on our morning float.

Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Updated Wednesday August 10 and 11th, 2011. Dr. Jim MacMahon, Dean of Science at Utah State University and Beautiful wife Patty, joined Guide Kevin Stubbs for a two day trip on the Guadalupe River. We started really early in the morning and finished before it became too hot. We encountered very few other people on the river. We did, however encounter large numbers of slab-sided sunfish and many small to medium sized bass. Jim and Patty specifically came to catch and release the only Cichlid native to North America, "The Rio Grande." Jim claimed his prize in the last few minutes of our second day of fishing the Guadalupe River. What's not to like?

Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Sunday August 21st, 2011, Water conditions clear with green tint. Half Day instructional float with Todd Westbrook and his future brother in law yielded many brightly colored sunfish and fiesty Guadalupe River bass. We saw a few tubers later in the day, but there wasn't much river traffic.

San Marcos River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Saturday, September 3rd 2011. Water clear with chalky color, temp. 78 degrees F. Jim Gebhart and his son joined us for an enjoyable day of catching on the San Marcos River. We released dozens of brightly colored sunfish, Rio Grande Cichlids and fiesty smallmouth and largemouth bass. We didn't encounter any other fishermen the entire day.

Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Monday September 5th, 2011. Water clear with green tint. Miguel Portillo and his lovely wife joined us from Mexico City while touring Texas Fly Fishing attractions. We caught and released dozens of sunfish, smallmouth and largemouth bass. We encountered a handful of tubers, but they didn't affect our fishing.

Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Friday October 14th, 2011. Canyon Dam Release about 76 CFS, water clear with light green stain. Cooler weather produced prolific hatches of Tricos, midges and Blue Winged Olives. Sunfish and small bass were gulping flies by the mouthfull. Bigger bass were crashing the sunfish and minnow species on the surface. Dave Baker from Cuero, brought his buddy from Canada. They fly fish all over the world and had some good stories. We managed to land about 30 sunfish and small bass, mostly on top. The action slowed as the day warmed and we started stripping weighted streamers. That produced sveral more nice bass.

Karen Johnson and Karl Rove with Trophy Devils Largemouth Bass

Devils River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Saturday November 5th, 2011, Flow at Baker's Crossing app. 145 CFS, water gin-clear at 72 degrees F. Karen Johnson and Karl Rove were hosted by Mike Luigs at the San Pedro Ranch. The full moon made fishing tougher than usual with fish feeding at night. We did manage to land a couple of really nice bass though. Pictures above and below.

Karen Johnson with Devils River Smallmouth Bass

Karen's Devils River Largemouth Bass

Devils River Fly Fishing report and river conditions: Saturday November 12, 2011. Flow at Baker's Crossing approximately 145 CFS. water temp. 65 degrees F. Kevin Stubbs was joined by his good friends, Mike Luigs and Ashley, for a short float on the San Pedro Ranch. The bite was slow, but we got our casting practice in with high southerly winds. Our trip was cut short, when an errant wind gust, blew a huge streamer fly at Ashley, and she got hooked. Luckily, Mike had his Cessna 180 handy at the air strip and flew Ashley back to San Angelo to have the hook removed....Man was she brave!! She said it didn't hurt at all; she's a tough lady! See pictures below.

Devils River Fly Fishing

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Sunday November 20th, 2011. Water clear with green stain, temp: 62 degrees F. Flow is pretty low, but very fishable. Float trip with Greg Damianoff and his buddy Frank from Houston produced quite a few nice, Guadalupe Rainbow Trout. The Fall colors were vivid with a beautiful blue sky.

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Monday November 21st, 2011. Water low and clear with light green stain. Float trip from Rio to L and L, produced a huge Guadalupe Trout. Mike Parish came from Colorado, where he fishes all the time, and.....He caught one of the largest rainbows in his fishing career. The huge Guadalupe Trout was in the 6 pound range.

Guadalupe River Trout Guide Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions: Wednesday November 30, 2011. Water clear with light green stain, 60 degrees F. Half day guide training/scouting trip with Chrissy Smith and Ashlee Newman-Montandon revealed schooling rainbows prowling in packs. We had several sight casting opportunities in the clearwater conditions. Chrissy and Ashlee got their workouts casting and rowing.

Chrissy Smith and Ashlee Newman-Montandon Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Guide Report Updated Saturday December 17, 2011. Jud Cole hosted Andy Thielen from San Antonio. Their Guadalupe Fishing trip started at Whitewater Sports and they floated to Rio Raft Company. Guadalupe Trout Unlimited stocking truck broke down, and the most recent stocking was slowed, while the tow truck pulled the huge trout stocking truck to trout stocking sites, in the Trophy Trout Special Regulation Zone. Our guys managaged to land about a dozen nice Guadalupe Trout.

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Report Updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Water clear with light green tint. Donated trip (American Cancer Society) today was lots of fun with quite a few, Guadalupe trout being landed on "dry droppers, " If you've fished in the Rockies, you know this is a proven technique.

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Guide Report and River Conditions: Updated Friday December 23, 2011. Danny Duff hosted recipients of gift certificate "For the Cure." They floated about 3 river miles. The cold weather and high winds made it more difficult than usual, but they ended up with several nice Guadalupe Trout. Prince nymphs were the ticket!

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Texas Guide Trips

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Guide Report and River Conditions: Updated Wednesday December 29, 2011. Guadalupe River fly fishing guide, Kevin Stubbs hosted hosted Phil Lane, General Manager of KSAT 12 San Antonio TV Station. Phil brought his boys Christopher and Justin for a long day of Guadalupe Trout fishing. Although there were quite a few fishermen out, we managed land several nice Guadalupe trout. Prince nymphs with an egg attaractor, was the ticket to catching fish at the Trout Unlimited Stocking sites.

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Guide Report and River Conditions: Updated Friday December 30, 2011. Mark Singleton joined Guadalupe Fly Fishing Guide Kevin Stubbs, for a 6 mile float from Rio Raft Company to Gardo's. Mark brought his son in law Steve, who never fly fished the Guadalupe River for Trout. Although he was a beginner, Steve was casting, mending and fishing like a champ. Even with all of these great skills, the fish were hard to fool. It seemed every fly fisher in Texas was on the Guadalupe River fly fishing for trout. Even with crowded conditions, we managed to land a few nice Guadalupe trout!

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Guide Report and River Conditions: Updated Monday January 2, 2012. Charlie Granstaff and Hunter Granstaff joined Expedition Outfitters' guide Kevin Stubbs for a 6 mile float from Rio Raft Company. There were quite a few Guadalupe Trout fly fishermen out for the extended holiday. The bite was slow in the morning. The afternoon yielded a BWO and Trico hatch, which put a few fish in a feeding mode. Hunter spotted a couple of big male Guadalupe trout in the skinny water and successfully landed both of them. See a picture of Hunter's Guadalupe trout below.

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Guide Trip

Devils River Fly Fishing Guide Report and River Conditions: Updated Saturday January 7, 2012. River flow 133 CFS at Baker's Crossing, water gin clear at 60 degrees F. Guide training and scouting with Chrissy Smith and Laura and Bryant Baker revealed a cohesive expedition team. A short fly fishing float gave everyone their casting practice. We also scouted the "outback" of the Russell Ranch in preparation for the Outdoor Adventure School.

San Marcos River Fly Fishing Guide Report and River Conditions: Updated Wednesday January 11, 2012. San Marcos River spring flow 111 CFS. Water slightly chalky and off color from recent rainfall. Kevin Stubbs was joined by Chrissy Smith and her dad Jim. This was Jim's first fly fishing lesson. He, and Chrissy did well with their presentations, but the fish weren't cooperating. We had several fish on, but we only got one to the boat.