Monthly Archives: March 2014

Trout fishing is about the last thing that comes to mind when most people think of Texas. More often, images of cactus, flashy bass boats, and John Wayne pop up when the Lone Star State is mentioned. Yet a Texas trout stream is exactly where we found ourselves a few weeks ago during spring break. The Texas Hill Country (and the state as a whole, for that matter) has long intrigued me, both for fishing opportunities and the character of the area. I’m not sure if it’s the pictures of obese, popper-crushing largemouths, or the thought of spring-fed rivers coursing through arid, desert-like terrain, or the starkly beautiful and majestic hills and bluffs, but for some reason the Hill Country and the rivers that flow through it have haunted my thoughts more than a few times. ——————– The wind burst through the giant cypress trees as I attempted to lob my…

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My fly box is a mess, the leader on my 6 wt. is shredded, and the waders are still damp in the garage. Over 2,000 miles in the truck, half a dozen states, and a few fish later, we’re back in the North country after a great spring break trip to the Texas Hill Country. Headquarters for the week were near the banks of massive Canyon Lake, the source of the southernmost trout fishery in the U.S. – the Guadalupe River. We’ll post a full report soon, but in the meantime here are a few pics from the trip… We didn’t bass fish nearly as much as we would’ve liked (does anyone ever do enough bass fishing in TX?), but Braden managed to stick this fat bucketmouth on a Meat Whistle during  the first day of the trip. Besides the first two days when temps crept into the eighties, the…

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