Jimbo
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I’ve never seen a sign like that and there never has been a flyfishing only area on the river. We do have regs that allows only lures or flys in the two special regulation zones if Trout are to be retained by the general public. (Of course all LAP members pledge to pratice catch and release on all the Trout they catch.) I do wish we did have a catch and release zone, but we never did win that one either.
Jimbo
Before I left for California I fished #5 and in addition to the river clearing most of the slit out for us, things have changed here and there. I went down to S Turn Rapids and Mountain Creek Pool and they changed greatly. Apparently there was a lot of water coming down Mountain Creek and it deposited a lot of gravel in the tailout of Mountain Creek Pool. The channel going to the right around the island there is almost impassable now. With the big rains and the higher flows I suspect you will see the greatest changes around where creeks dump into the Guadalupe. So wade carefully and use your wading staff to check the depths where you want to wade.
Other places to be very careful: The creek at the bend island at JDL, Cordova Creek below 306, Mountain Creek at S Turn Rapids, Jacobs Creek upstream of Little Ponderosa, the creek flowing into the Top of Devil’s Playground, Turkey Creek at Meckel’s, Deep Creek in the lower end of Mountain Breeze Pool, The 2 creeks the flow into the river between River Bluff and Lone Star. There will also be other places were the river narrows and current either scours out new holes or fills in old ones with gravel.
I might get a couple of days on the river before Christmas and will try to report what I see, otherwise I will be out in California for another series of operations this winter. The consult for them is this afternoon. I hope to be patched back together and see everyone on the water later this spring.
Jimbo
No announcement has been made yet. There will be an e-mail blast and a topic started on this Lease Access Forum a week to 10 days before the actual stocking date…..
Jimbo
LAP packets will start going out next week, so they will be a few days late. I know some are itching to get back on the water but don’t try and use the LAP without your current 2021-22 season parking permit and personal tags. The good news is we are negoatiating for an additional LAP site this season. Dan will be making an announcement sometime soon. Meanwhile, I’m off for California again and won’t be back till mid-December. So enjoy the river and all the new stockers. When I get back I’ll have to settle for all those Trout who have already first hand knowledge of what is hidden in the fur and feathers….
Jimbo
Yeap, you need to get to the TU national site to renew your membership with them. It was in the last e-mail from Dustin right before the last sign-up.
Jimbo
Well the enrollment date being pushed back is going to make everything hard to get the LAP packets out to everyone by Nov 1. Especially with them having to check TU national membership instead of having it part of the usual enrollment. I e-mailed Dustin and I am waiting for a response.
Jimbo
Can you believe it? Canyon Lake stands at 908.94’msl, that’s less than 1″ from pool. And another pacific hurricane is forecast to push mositure across the mountains of Mexico into Central Texas Tuesday and Wednesday. This one is not expected to be as intense as the last one, but if rains fall over the upper basin, it sure won’t take much to get the lake to pool (909’msl).
Tom tom tom tom….
Tom tom tom tom….
Tom tom tom tom….
Jimbo
I haven’t mentioned it because I didn’t want to jinks it…
Jimbo
Thanks Alex, no confirmation from TU yet. I reached out to them and I am waiting a response to make sure everything is Koser….
Jimbo
When I signed up Sunday, they didn’t ask for my TU membership number, just my mailing address? They also said they would send an email confirmation which I still have not received. Is this how the senior sign-up went for you?
Jimbo
Just google: Renew Trout Unlimited Senior Membership and the link will come up to take you to the TU website and the senior discount.
(I tried to copy and paste the real link but for some reason it doesn’t bring up the real link)
Jimbo
Alex, we are going to have to go through the TU national site this season. Next year maybe we will get back to have everything done during the LAP sign-up.
Here’s the link to the Senior discount for TU: Renew Your Senior Membership | Trout Unlimited Donation Site
Well the copy and paste doesn’t seem to be working. I googled renew Trout Unlimited Senior Discount and it came up.
Jimbo
I checked too. I just talked to Dustin about this. I will contact TU national and see whats up with the senior option and get back to you….
I’m a senior too.
Jimbo
First GRTU General Meeting this year will be Nov 13th at Lazy L&L. I’ll be in California at the time, so raise the questions you want the Board to hear during the meeting. I also hear Dustin is working on a TU/GRTU membership sign-up solution on our website. It’s is important to sign up for these memberships on our site as TU national funnels more money back to GRTU when we initiate those membership renewals. So wait for an E-Mail blast from Dustin with the details.
Jimbo
Kerrville did not nearly get the rain that fell from Comfort downstream. The flows in the upper river are already dropping to just over 100cfs. The flows you see over 90cfs at Sattler is really just runoff (they were well over 1000cfs last night). Still getting the lake to come up so dramatically is fabulous !!! And I suspect with the inflows dropping as fast as they are the lake might not make it to 909’msl. Of course all the creeks that feed the lake in addition to the Guadalupe are helping as the biggest rains fell from Spring Branch and right around Canyon Lake. Soon I will see the weather at noon and I expect the rain fall will be a major topic. The Blanco also saw a wall of water coming down, I wonder if it impacted the local communities again?
Jimbo
