6 Anglers caught hundreds of fish.

The weather was cool on Saturday, but warmed up nicely

Four Kayaks, one, 1-man, inflatable, and one 2-man inflatable all made the 4 mile trek between the crossing and our takeout.

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Two of our anglers arrived early enough on Friday to fish between the second and first crossing. The wind was brutal for that 2 mile stretch they caught a few fish, but positioning their watercraft made casting difficult.

The rest of us came in slowly until the last man arrived about 5:00 PM , 

Dinner the first night was veggie lasagna with all kinds of sides. Sitting around the campfire that night we decided that we were just going to do from the first crossing down here to our takeout.

46° Saturday morning with very little wind. All kayaks/rafts in the water by 8:50, first fish of the day by 8:55. The water levels were a little lower than they were last year. This caused us to drag through a few places that we would normally just float through.

Within minutes, in in site of the launch we were already catching fish.

The weather warmed up nicely on Saturday afternoon and we came out of our windbreakers.

Hundreds of fish were caught between six people.  LMB, long-ear sunfish, bluegill, Rio Grande Perch, and Guadalupe bass were the species caught.

The FOTD (Fly of the day) was the yellow spider but many other flies also caught fish, I need to ask the group, which one they also used. Even though alternative gear (spinning rods) were used, the fly rods produced more, if not bigger, fish.

Tom got the best fish of the trip A very nice bass.

Puck caught a Rio Grande perch after identifying the conditions and pointing out the fish to a fellow angler. Hare-E was the fly it wanted.

We had the river almost to ourselves. We saw 2 rafts and 2 kayaks that weren’t in our group, but nobody else, all day. All anglers were off the water by 5:00pm. This made for a full 8 hour day of fishing.

We had one individual that decided that the weather was just perfect for swimming, as he went swimming 2 1/2 times. If he wants to confess to how it wound up being 2 1/2, you’ll have to ask him.

Howard broke a spinning rod on a huge LMB 

There was a flipper lost from the DS pontoon boat.

Tom had an interesting day. First he broke a fly rod, then he lost his phone, told his wife about it. He had convinced himself that it had just slipped out of his pocket. Later, while recovering from fishing that day he had found it did indeed slip out of his pocket and go down into the foot of his waders. The phone was fine and Tom was happy. 

Saturday night dinner, again way too much food. Saturday meal was Tom’s Sausage Peas and Mexican Cornbread.  Recipe is available for a small fee. We ate well and then we went and sat around the campfire till about 10 o’clock.

Sunday morning we all got up and had coffee about 7 o’clock. Two of us left to go home right after coffee, as they had things to do. Another deciding factor was that the wind was expected to be high, making fishing difficult.

Three of us took a chance, walked down to the river, and fished the water below the CR150 bridge. The wind picked up so we didn’t use watercraft, so we just waded and walked the shoreline. We immediately started catching fish.

General notes:

• Laughing was as abundant as the amount of fish caught 

• Someone got in trouble by returning home with a wife-made lasagna untouched. That man will be eating lasagna till next Christmas 

• We have already coordinated with Nol for next year’s camping/lodging. Details to follow.

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