Guadalupe River 04-06-2012

While vacationing with Mandy, Dusty, and their two girls at New Braunfels Texas just east of San Antonio, Dusty and I decided to hired a guide for a float fishing trip down the Guadalupe river, the southern most trout fishery in the United States.

The guide let us when he had to navigate the shallow portions.

The morning fishing was really slow.

The upper section of the river was lined with several homes.

I was the first to hook up. This was the first carp I have ever caught on a fly rod. It was quite the battle to get it landed.

Dusty endded up catching the most trout.

One of my ragged little trout.

Dusty also caught the biggest trout of the day.

This is where we stopped for lunch.

The lower section of the river had fewer homes. I really liked the big trees with the exposed roots.

The reason the water looks off color is because of the lime stone bedrock.

Some of the wildlife along the river.

Lots of turtles.

At the end of the float we bounded the shore with small streamers and caught a bunch of sunfish.

This was a fun trip and I would do it again.

Bolivar Peninsula 10-14-2011

In the afternoon on the 14th we took the ferry from Galveston over to the Bolivar Peninsula to do some surf fishing.

Brad and Diane 

Diane with a fish on. 

Diane's fish, a Croaker. 

Alan caught these fish in his casting net. The bigger fish a Croaker was probably chasing the smaller Mullet when the net came over them.

Linda with a fish on.

Linda's fish a Whiting.

Nolana had one on that got off.

The next few picture show how to throw a casting net. Luckily I did it right this time, with a nice open circle landing on the water. It didn't always work out that well.

Some bait fish (Menhaden) caught with the casting net.

One more Sunrise outing 10-14-2011

Friday morning we decided to surf fish the west end of Galveston island by a place called San Louis Pass, it's were the water from the Gulf flows in and out of the Bay.

We started out using shrimp. 

It wasn't long before I caught a Stingray. 

Alan went out to catch us some live bait. 

The live bait, a Mullet. 

After not having much luck at this location, we went over to the bay side to fish for Reds. I didn't get any pictures over there. While Brad and I wade fished the flats with no luck, Alan stuck to fishing the pass, he ended up catching a couple fish, one was a Piggy Perch.