Friday, December 4, 2009

T.F.M. Spotting - Pete Stiles on the "Guad"

A couple weeks ago Pete Stiles sent along a photo of him working with their Trout Unlimited chapter on stocking the Guadalupe River in Texas with 4,000 pounds of rainbow trout which were 16-22 inches in length.


Pete wrote "Today was the first stocking of the season on the Guadalupe. The fish truck is getting ready to shoot some more monsters into our river. I decided to rep T.F.M. Trout Unlimited does this a few times a year and asks for volunteers to help bucket trout to the river and pick up trash. This was the first stocking of our season which runs from November to March or so - weather depending. Technically you can fish the Guadalupe River year round, but we don't like to stress the fish in hot weather and the rubber hatch (tubers) comes with the warm weather."


Last week Pete emailed again saying..."I tied a slump buster on my McFarland 8' 5wt and had a nice fish on first cast! First time that has happened!"

I guess everything IS bigger in Texas.

2 comments:

Chris Michels said...

I grew up in San Antonio, and have spent more than a little bit of time on that river. It's a great thing those guys do down there.

Miles Sims said...

The Guad is amazing and what the GRTU guys on top of the 20k trout that the state drops in there make it THE place for trout in Texas.