We’ve been hanging out on our local trout stream here in Texas, the Guadalupe River, for a couple of months now.  Our local  TU chapter, Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited, has stocked (see pic) the river several times over the past few months with mostly rainbows, but also a load of browns.  While the actual number of pounds of fish has remained pretty consistent year over year of stocking (see pic), this year fewer numbers, but bigger fish have been stocked in the river.  We’ve found ourselves regularly hooking into trout in the 18”-20+” realm (see pics).

The river has been great for wading this season as the flows have remained below 100cfs.  We’ve taken several hikes up and downstream to spots that before you’d have needed a raft or kayak to access.   This has made the river much more accessible to anglers and we’ve sensed an increase in the numbers of people we’ve seen on the river, both wading and taking guided fishing trips in rafts.  We had the pleasure of taking a trip with Dylan Mendoza of All Water Guides this past week and netted some beautiful bows and browns.  As always, we love seeing all the wildlife along the river, especially all the different species of birds (see pic).

This being our home water in winter, we’ve blogged about the Guadalupe before.  For those of you who may be new to our blog, or those who want more about this southernmost fishery, here are some previous post highlights.

Guadalupe Guide Talk

Our very first “Guide Talk” was done with two Texas fly fishing “legends”, Alvin Dedeaux and J.T. Van Zandt.  These two are real “characters’ who shared not just fly fishing stories, philosophies, Guadalupe tips, and general fishing intel…. but some great stories of their adventures together.

Jimbo!

We did a two part interview with Jimbo Roberts, our GRTU VP of fisheries, who is also one of those “characters” along the Guadalupe.   Jimbo, Part 1, deals with how Jimbo got into fly fishing and how GRTU came to be… and it’s about beer!   Jimbo, Part 2, deals with Guadalupe Fishing Tips.

GRTU TroutFest

One of GRTU’s primary fundraisers is TroutFest, an annual celebration of all things trout fishing.  As part of our River Ramble blog, we attended and covered the last two events, Troutfest 2017 and Troutfest 2018.

Local Waters

We also documented the Guadalupe River in much more detail with our “Local Waters” post from last year.

Deep in the Heart of Texas

If you want to see what the river is like, take a trip down the Guadalupe in this short music video chronicling our river trip with JT and Alvin.

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