Author Topic: Trout Fishing In Texas (Void Related) (Read 4119 times)

Alkie · « **on:** November 01, 2006, 04:04:45 pm »

I don't want links; links I've found. I was wondering if anyone else in here has ever done any of the rare trout fishing in Texas.

My dad and I want to go somewhere this weekend but aren't sure if we can get access to the lease on the Guadalupe for rainbow.

Anyone ever found a place to go for brook, brown, lake, or rainbows?

Taras Bulba · « **Reply #1 on:** November 01, 2006, 04:08:49 pm »

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I don't want links; links I've found. I was wondering if anyone else in here has ever done any of the rare trout fishing in Texas.

My dad and I want to go somewhere this weekend but aren't sure if we can get access to the lease on the Guadalupe for rainbow.

Anyone ever found a place to go for brook, brown, lake, or rainbows?

With the exception of TPW rainbow stockings, I'm inclined to think the only freshwater trout you'll find will be rainbows in the Guadalupe, and that will be hit and miss this time of year. Why not go to the coast and cast for specks?

Alkie · « **Reply #2 on:** November 01, 2006, 04:14:03 pm »

We really wanted to go fly fishing with the gear we got. If we go to the coast, we're gonna have to either rent gear or buy new stuff.

We were up in NM last weekend and now we got it in our heads and can't get it out. We might just go back there, but I was really hoping we'd be able to do something within driving distance.

Alkie · « **Reply #4 on:** November 01, 2006, 04:26:51 pm »

Let's see. If I take Friday off...I can be in Ruidoso some time around midnight. If I fish Saturday and leave Sunday at sun-up, I can make it back to Houston in time for work Monday.

Wow.

32 hours of driving for 8 hours of fishing! Genius.

Alkie · « **Reply #8 on:** November 01, 2006, 04:33:40 pm »

Dude, did you read the thread?

That is already an option, obviously, but we'd really LIKE to find someplace within driving range from HOUSTON.

If that falls thru, duh, I'll fly to ELP and drive like we did last week.

UpTooLate · « **Reply #11 on:** November 01, 2006, 05:08:55 pm »

As a previous post mentioned, you can go to the Texas Parks and Wildlife website and find out when they do local stocking of rainbows in the lakes around Houston (sounds crazy, but yes they do this). Basically they stock in the cold weather months and you have to catch the fish before they die from the warm water temperatures. I've never gone, but my understanding is that it gets pretty crowded after a stocking has taken place and most of the fish are caught within several days of being stocked. Otherwise your options are the Guadalupe or New Mexico. Hell, if you're gonna fly, might as well go to Wyoming, Montana, Colorado or Idaho.

NeilT · « **Reply #13 on:** November 01, 2006, 08:25:10 pm »

I've been in trout unlimited for 7 or 8 years, and fish the Guadalupe leases about once or twice a year. You don't have to access the leases, though. You can pick one of the campgrounds and presumably buy your way in. Once you're in the river, you can go anyplace you can walk to. The problem is parking.

They don't start stocking until November or so, but there are holdover fish. This year it's supposed to be tough because the water has been so low during the drought. I've heard reports of people catching fish, though.

You might consider any of the other rivers, and fish for bass instead . . . It's just a wee bit early, I think, for the Guad, but it's a great time for bass and sunfish.

Fish an olive wooly bugger with a nymph dropper and a bit of weight up the leader for either the trout or the bass.

austro · « **Reply #14 on:** November 01, 2006, 10:03:49 pm »

I canoed (loosely speaking) part of the upper Guad three weeks ago. There is barely any water in the river, and what there is ain't moving. I don't know where the trout leases are (maybe on the lower river, in the colder water?), but it doesn't seem like conditions would be very good right now.

Alkie · « **Reply #15 on:** November 01, 2006, 10:42:50 pm »

Very cool. Guess we'll wait a month or so to hit the Guad.

We're going to go hit a place called Rio Penasco in Southern NM. Anyone here ever been there? Have any luck?

mr. owlook · « **Reply #16 on:** November 02, 2006, 12:01:59 am »

Scott Graham is a guide that I used take several trips with guests on the Guadalupe River 6-8 years ago when I lived in Texas. He's working the salt more now but according to the site he still guides on the river in the winter. Haven't used him in years, but he was a great guide, very good on teaching the newcomers...

Outlawscotty · « **Reply #20 on:** November 02, 2006, 10:04:44 am »

It's below the Canyon Lake damn in Sattler; I think you just park and fish (no pay), used to anyway. Don't know if they're stocked yet. Just go wade fishing in the bay with your fly fishing gear. That was a new trend about ten years ago.

Limey · « **Reply #21 on:** November 02, 2006, 12:21:34 pm »

Ty in Tampa · « **Reply #26 on:** November 02, 2006, 02:10:59 pm »

Is it ironic that he's from Darwin?

NeilT · « **Reply #28 on:** November 03, 2006, 11:56:51 am »

The Link

I think your 5 wt will do just fine.