Jimbo
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Yes, each day you take a non-LAP member fishing you must pay for that day pass. Also each LAP member can take just one non-LAP member on GRTU leases with the Day Pass per day. It was a problem noted only after the new system was in place. It requires that you pay every time for each day pass on the honor system. I mentioned this to the Board and asked that we track the sales of day passes because the way it’s set up a person could pay for one day and just keep copying the blank page day pass. You are also supposed to fill out all the blanks on the day pass for the day it used. We even thought about having members send in the filled out day passes for a prize so we could track that activity and even contact the non-LAP member to check on their experience. But the Board never followed through on that.
Jimbo
I got to know Doc over the years when I was V P of Fisheries. He loved the river and his house there. He was an enthusiastic flyfisherman and I would take him out on the river when the flows were lower and he could wade. He loved just to get hooked up on a Trout. His later years were not kind to him. He developed cancer and beat it back off and on, but it left him pretty shaky on his feet. I had to be right by his side at all times to steady him. And fortunately over the years he did catch some good fish while on the river. He was a friend of GRTU and leased his property year round at a very reasonable rate. He was always smiling and laughing and he will be missed. Smooth sailing Doc !
Jimbo
The old Rocky Beach was bought by the owners of Lazy L&L. It is a seasonal LAP site again this season. As far as parking goes. we’ll talk to them and figure that out, then get back to you.
Jimbo
As for flows you can always refer to GBRA’s website of the releases under the conditions header.
https://gbra.org/conditions/default.aspx
There’s lots of other data there you can look at if you’re interested.
Jimbo
Of course that new Lazy L&L lease will not be open till Nov 1st because it a new lease this season. If you are driving downstream on River road, you will pass River Bluff, then there will be about 5 or 6 houses on the left, the first large open spot with a green metal gates is the new lower Lazy L&L site. There will be a lock on the gate with our new combo Nov 1st. And of note it is a seasonal site Nov 1- March 31.
Jimbo
The last couple of years the password has been the new combo for the locks. Not sure what it is this year and remember the leases for this season (2019-2020) are not open till Nov 1st anyway (old year round leases are still open for the 2018-2019 season).
The new lease is about half-way between River Bluff and Lower Rio. It makes it easier to get down there for older gentlemen like me. It also adds more parking spaces and makes it easier to spread out. Last year there were a bunch of fish right in that riffle below the old Cable Pool. Getting any new leases in spots where there is wadable water is getting hard to come by. Dan Cone and myself are still trying to add something around Whitewater/306. Hopefully we get something before the first stocking.
Jimbo
Watch for the home page for the meeting’s announcement. The board has been trying to make GRTU meetings more accessible for members in other locations like Austin last year. So I haven’t heard where the first meeting is going to be yet, but I bet you at least one meeting will be in someplace like Houston or Dallas this year.
Jimbo
Water temps coming out of the dam are still pretty good considering the lack of rain over the summer. That being said, the main problem we have right now is the air temps still well into the 90’s. This heats up the water coming downstream pretty quickly at these flows (110cfs https://gbra.org/). When we start seeing overnight temps in the 50’s and day temps in the 80’s the cold water will get further downstream and we can start fishing again without much to worry about. So watch the forecasts, and take water temps when you go. Many years I would already be fishing by now, but these 90+ days have kept me off the water. I am still waiting myself a while longer.
Jimbo
I talked with them on Sept 22. It should have been granted by now.
Jimbo
They will start matching inflows as the Flow Agreement period is over.
It’s time to roll out the drums again……
Tom, tom, tom, tom…..
Tom, tom, tom, tom…..
Tom, tom, tom, tom…..
Let it rain !!!
Jimbo
Don’t overlook coming to our General meetings. There’s lots to learn and people to meet.
Jimbo
On the GRTU home page, at the bottom, click on “contact”, then all the board members information comes up……
Dan Cone: 325-423-0045
Jimbo
I wrote to the Flyfishing Addicts administrators to request access for GRTU members. Let’s see if this speeds things up?
Jimbo
Alex when that happens, report it to Dan Cone V P of Fisheries. He can then contact the land owner for the appropriate action.
Jimbo
One other thing. I remember that when I applied for access to all of Flyfishing Addicts Forums, I had to wait several days to get approval. Consider that their Location Forums are much like our Lease Access Forum and restricted so as their more sensitive information that their members talk about will not be available to just anybody. Did any of you ever hear back from their moderators about being accepted or denied?
Jimbo
