Devils River Fishing Report and River Conditions: 10-12-09, 10-13-09.  Flow at Baker's Crossing approx. 150 CFS.  Water Crystal clear 75 degrees F.  TV shoot with Kevin Townsend (KT Diaries) and William Russell yielded many small to medium sized bass.  They also landed some bigger fish too.  William caught a 4 lb largemouth and Kevin Townsend (KT) caught a trophy smallmouth pictured below.  Look for the TV Show next Spring on CBS broadcast stations.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions: 12-27-09,  Guadaupe River flow app. 110 CFS.  Water stained light green.  1/2 Day float with Mark Wilshusen produced many Guadalupe Trout on Nymphs.  Mark also landed this Palomino above the wier near Rio Raft Company.  Picture Below.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions: 4-01-2010, Half day float with Janet Roberts and her friend Bonnie from Austin produced several hard fighting Guadalupe trout.  These ladies have traveled the world fly fishing and recently returned from an expedition in Chile.  They said they had a great fishing trip close to home.  Nymphing was the ticket again, even with a prolific BWO hatch.

San Marcos River Fly Fishing Report and River Conditions:  4-04-2010, Flow approx. 420 CFS.  Water chalky with light green tint.  Six mile float with David Prindle and Gina from Austin produced some small bass and sunfish.  The weather was nice, but the fishing was slow.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions: 4-15-2010, Canyon Dam Release 300 cfs.  Water clear with green tint.  Half day float with John Davenport and guests from the Guadalupe River Club yielded several nice rainbows on nymphs.  We saw a few caddis coming off, but no rising fish.  The hard rain made it a little challenging, but there was no lightning.

San Marcos River Fishing Report and River Conditions:  4-21-2010,  Combined flow below the Blanco River confluence was app. 600 CFS.  The water was cloudy and murky due to recent rainfall.  Tom Regina came from Florida to fish for smallmouth bass.  We floated from Martindale to Staples covering about 6 river miles.  The fishing was slow but we managed to land about 10 small bass and sunfish.

San Marcos River Fishing Report and River Conditions:  4-22-2010,  This was Tom Regina's second day.  The water farther upstream was less murky, so we did the upper end covering about 3 river miles.  We caught quite a few sunfish at first, but the catching started to slow after it began to rain.  We cut our float short and headed to the truck in time to beat the heaviest showers.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River conditions: 4-26-2010, Bob Deleaut came from New Hampshire to fish for Guadalupe Trout.  We landed many fiesty fish on nymphs.  He said it was the perfect compliment to his vacation.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions:  5-1-2010, Canyon Dam release app 600 CFS.  Water clear with light green tint.  Stroman Cashion and his son Gilbert joined me from Ingleside and DFW respectively.  It was Gilbert's first time to fly fish.  He caught on quickley and landed almost 12 nice Guadalupe trout.

Guadalupe River Fishing Report and River Conditions:  5-4-2010,  Canyon Dam Release app: 450 CFS,  Water clear with light green tint.  Bass Fishing float with Capt. Ryan Shea and his buddy Bryan, produced many screappy sunfish and several smallmouth and largemouth bass.  The weather was perfect.  Poppers and large purple streamers were the ticket.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions:  5-05-2005,  Canyon Dam Release 440 CFS.  Water Temp. 57 degrees F.  Gudalupe Trout fishing was superb!  The weather was great, with no tubers or other traffic, other than a few fishermen.  Our second day with Capt. Ryan Shea and his buddy Bryan produced too many Guadalupe Trout to count.  Our nymphing skills were the ticket to success.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions: 5-09-2010, Canyon Dam Release 400 CFS.  Water clear with light gree tint at 56 degrees F.  Half day float with Warren (visiting from Arizona) and his brother Doug produced many hard fighting, acrobatic, Guadalupe trout.  There were no tubers or floaters to be seen.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions: 5-12-2010, Canyon Dam release 400 CFS.  Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake, water clear with light green tint, temp. 57 degrees F.  Eight mile float with Alamo Fly Fisher's Andy Niland and Lloyd Matthews produced too many Guadalupe trout to count.  Luckily, I had some good fishermen!  Nymphing was our preferred method of hooking acrobatic Guadalupe trout.  No tubers were encountered the entire day!

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions: 5-21-2010,  Canyon Dam release 400 CFS, Water clear, with light green tint.  Water temp. 57 degrees F.  Nine mile scouting float with William Russell produced several nice Guadalupe Trout, that jumped and fought hard.  Double nymph rigs were the preferred method.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions: 5-22-2010, Canyon Dam Release 400 CFS.  Half day float with Skip and Rhonda Chandler from Austin produced quite a few nice Guadalupe Trout hook-ups.  The rainbows fought hard, making it difficult for the anglers to land the fish.  We did, however get a couple in the net, to be released promptly.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions:  6-05-2010,  Canyon Dam Release 400 CFS,  Water clear with light green stain.  Roger Friedline and Ray Peacock from Midland Texas used Roger's gift certificate and we did a day trip starting at first light.  There was a good hatch of BWO's, Caddis, and Trico's coming off around 8:30 AM.  Even with a prolific hatch, we only saw a couple of rising fish.  The double nymph rig was the ticket and we hooked more fish than we could count.  Ray landed a 5 pound Gudalupe Trout with beautiful color and markings.  We didn't see any tubers until after lunch.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River conditions, 6-15-2010, Canyon Dam release 440 CFS, water temp. 62 degrees F.  Water clear with light green tint.  Half day trip yielded several hook ups with Guadalupe Trout.  These fish fought hard, and made challenging runs.  We encountered very few tubers or other floaters until afternoon.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions: 6-23-2010,  Canyon Dam release 240 CFS.  Water moderately clear with chalky tint.  Andy Thatcher and I floated 6 river miles, targeting Guadalupe Trout in the morning and fishing for bass in the afternoon.  Andy landed several nice Guadalupe Trout and a nice largemouth bass pictured below.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions: 6-28-2010, Canyon dam release 240 CFS.  Water clear with light green tint @ 67 degrees F.  Half day float with Ed Furst and his son Coleman yielded many Guadalupe Trout hook ups.  We managed to get several nice Guadalupe trout to the net, where thy were released un-harmed.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions:  July 14th, 2010; Canyon Dam release 565 CFS.  Water temp. 62 degrees F. water clear with green stain.  Full day float with Jimmy Martens and his son Gordon, produced two nice Guadalupe Rainbow Trout, and several sunfish.  We did about 6 river miles.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Report and River Conditions:  July 16th, 2010.  Canyon Dam release 566 CFS.  Water clear with light green tint, Temp. 62 degrees F.  Fly Fishing lesson, combination 1/2 day guided float produced several hook ups for Charles and Angela Thompson from Texas City.  We didn't encounter any tubers or rafters, until after lunch.  Charles landed a 4 lb Guadalupe Trout, pictured below.