Colin Cooper
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I will be there tomorrow.
Well, I know this thread is pretty old but I came across it after my first “JDL” experience this weekend and I figured that it might be worth sharing, for a funny story and an interesting perspective. My brother, his fiancé and I all got on the river at 306 early Sunday morning and I gave them a quick lay of the land and then high-tailed it up to the “JDL” spot as I fished it pretty heavily earlier this year after moving to New Braunfels in March; and I was anxious to get back there as the couple times that I’ve been back this fall there were always other anglers in it. I immediately saw a monster 28″ rainbow cruising the pool and started casting to it, changing flies a couple times and after about 30-45 minutes I noticed the homeowner down by the water feeding – I assumed – the ducks, based on the ruckus. Next thing I know, there are tons of fish pellets floating down the river and the trout I had been targeting was doing wide figure 8’s with it’s mouth open at the top of the water (I even tried to cast directly into it’s mouth, with no success). It must have ate half a pound of food. Naturally, I figured that hole was done for a good long while so I moved on upstream and found a healthy number of rainbows holding and netted my very first brown on the Guad! But that’s not the interesting part…
My brother, following me upstream came to the same hole probably 15-20 minutes after me and saw the same monster trout, still cruising and cast a glo bug egg about 8′ ahead of it, hooked it, and landed it! So while I might have been quick to blame the homeowner for my failure to land anything in that pool, it turns out that my lack of success landed squarely on my own shoulders. So, I guess the moral of this story is don’t count that pool out just because he threw some food in there (and maybe try an egg pattern).
And one last thought before I go: that brown trout that I caught was absolutely gorgeous – vibrant colors and fins in excellent condition. I’d love to believe that it was a holdover, but that seems entirely too coincidental considering that they were stocked two days before. So, to everyone that coordinated and volunteered on the brown trout stocking: Nice work!
