Another season over...

 Our journey back home to Manitoba began earlier than originally planned. Due to an accommodation misfire, the fly rods, reels and flies were packed by March 3rd and we hit the road on March 5th. Bobbie found some driving energy and we hit our snow covered yard on the 6th. Whew, what a drive. Had another great year in the Texas hill country where I sampled all sorts of fishing and met many wonderful folks. Texas people are truly friendly!

Fishing was only average this year with my biggest rainbow just under 18" while the browns were planted in the Guadalupe on the day I left Texas. This year the sunfish co-operated in numbers and even a few nice bass were fooled by my flies.

 

Warm water on the Guadalupe

There has been little of note to report on my Guadalupe fishing since the last post. Rainbow fishing has been average, with some good days and some bad. Not the numbers of last year nor the size; my biggest to date is about 18". I'm not enjoying indicator fishing at all and direct contact fishing only slightly more. Streamer fishing, which I love, has been less productive than the former methods but has still resulted in some good days.

Today, I decided to fish further downstream on the Guadalupe, in areas where warm water fish are the norm and trout are absent. I also spent a bit of time on the Comal River, one of the shortest rivers in the world...a mere 2 miles long. It was there I caught a small sunfish that has been identified as a red-spotted sunfish. A new specie for me!

On the Guadalupe, did much better, catching over a dozen nice sized redbreasts and a few bluegills.

The scariest fish of the day was this Guadalupe bass. I was fishing a 3/4 wt rod for sunnies and the area I was fishing has several large bits of cover in the form of branches in the water. At one point the bass wrapped around a branch but a bit of slack, and a lot of luck, got him into open water again.