Jerry
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Dan I’m still not allowed to lift anything but will be happy to help out in whatever way I can.
To make up for my lameness my wife Lois wants to come and do what I can’t. ?
Jerry
Thanks Jimbo, as usual you are a wealth of knowledge.
The thing is this is not just a LAP problem. Our LAP sites are not our own sites, especially in these low flows. I heard one guy at CVC talking to another guy, apparently not his partner, about “I heard you can pay a lot of money to fish these place but I just park and walk”. Or I talked to another guy the other day and he said his neighbor got a little raft so he can fish wherever he wants. So in reality we have become our own worst enemy. We are stocking big trout. We are advertising those big trout, I am getting so tired of GRTU and NBFF advertisements showing large beautiful, gripped rainbows, telling everyone to come and catch one of these beauties! And so they come. (Sorry Dan and Chris and all the guides) And we, the ones paying for it bitch. Quit the ads, promote joining TU FFI, promote proper catch and release and quit putting in large trout. At least until the frenzy dies, along with Covid.
And on the Guide front, most fisheries that I have been around have a limit on guides in different sections of the river. From what I have heard the Guad does not. Plus I have heard that basically all you really need to be a guide is a fishing license and a boat. That too is a lot of our problem and something that should be addressed. Dan, all the Chris’s, I would think all you “legitimate “ guides would want to lobby for restrictions as well. I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Thanks for the update Jimbo! And I’m glad to here you are up and about AND fishing. Although I am not at all surprised. Be careful and I look forward to seeing you soon.
Yep! That’s the guy, except my friend thought his name was Scott Padgett so thanks for the clarification Scott. ?
he said he was previously in Llano but grew up hear. 10 years as a game warden, after a stint in the Marines!
I think we got a good one!
I had an interesting talk wit a friend of mine today. He was talking with our new game warden who kayaks and patrols the river. He said that he is writing 10 tickets a day (could write more) and is writing a lot of warnings. But the interesting part is that he said the majority of the tickets are to FLY FISHERMEN! So just because you see someone with a fly rod in their hand don’t assume the are OK. Fly Fishing being “cool” doesn’t mean the people are.
Thanks Dan, I know it had to be hard on you. But all you can do is try and give it your best. All of which are much appreciated.
So could you guys tell if all those boats were guide boats or just Tom, Dick and Harry? With a Bubba thrown in. ?
Yep, my wife drove by what we call “ The Cheap Seats”, the parking area by the No Parking sign across from the Horseshoe. She counted 12 vehicles and couldn’t count anymore!
And thank you all who worked on the stocking!
Thank for the info Bill!
I sent you a PM
Jerry
Well unfortunately I think those are all nice dreams. First of all you have to remember that the lease accesses are all on private property, either someone’s home or a business. And those businesses also allow pay to park/fish. They very well may not want a rent-a-cop hanging around their property. There are homes and rental properties all along the river, neighborhoods with gated access and thousands of property owners accessing the river. Anybody can hop in a raft or a kayak and float/fish every inch of the river. How in the heck are you going to patrol all of that?
There is also a article in the TU bylaws about not allowing special or tiered status, I can’t remember how it is worded but I remember that LAP was walking a thin line on breaking that regulation. Maybe one of the officers can chime in on this. But, I think raising the rates to weed folks out etc is is only going to exacerbate the issue.
The simple solution IMHO is to lobby for what most (if not all?) trout fisheries have is a true quality water fishery. Artificial only, absolutely no bait allowed and catch and release. Not the whole river but a LAP section that we stock. THEN we have to get the wardens to actually float the and patrol the river. The ones we had talk to us didn’t want to get wet! We need to look at how much money we spend on trout, tally up the income that it brings into the area and push for some changes. All it will do is improve the fishing and we can have a much more enjoyable experience.
I was going to edit my post but I’ll just add it here.
What I really dream about is a true “Quality Water” section. And that is where LAP stocks fish.
This “access” problem happens every time we have a low flow year. As long as there is “pay to park” areas close to LAP areas the average fisher person can wander anywhere along the river. I too have been on my soap box beating the C&R ruling and I wish GRTU and TU National would use some of their power and monies to lobby for it. But, this is Texas. I do wish GRTU would change their Facebook (and wherever else) ads to not advertise all the big fish that here to be harvested but to educate the public on where those fish come from and proper catch and release technique. Maybe even post the Guadalupe regs so that there is no “gee I didn’t Know” excuse.
Thanks for posting this JC, I always wondered how fly fishing comps worked.
Man I think the worst part would be having the Judges, which are your peers AND fellow competitors, watch you while you fished!
This is great! I’m not only visually picking up tips on patterns to tie I’m also learning how messy my fly box is!
Thanks for the update Jimbo! I just got around to reading it and as usual it got me salivating to go fish. This will definitely need to be a new chapter in your book. “The day I went Euro!” ?
