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February 25, 2008, Randy Johnson

See the report for the club's outing to Tejas Park.

Februray 19, 2008, Don Johnson

BEGIN AND END TIMES: 1:30pm 3:30pm
AIR TEMPERATURE, WEATHER CONDITIONS: 65 degrees, partly cloudy, windy
WATER TEMPERATURE, WATER CONDITION: murky water, couldn’t see the bottom in one foot of water, very low flow
DESCRIPTION OF THE OUTING: Got skunked. I saw only a few other fishermen and the ones I talked to weren’t having any luck either. I guess the whites aren't there yet. There is a riffle about two hundred yards above the old sunken bridge. I don’t know if the whites can make it past this riffle.

November 3, 2007, Don Johnson and Clint Barton

Clint and I went to Tejas Park for some wade fishing. We first fished downstream from the bridge. We couldn’t go too far because with Lake Georgetown at 791 feet (the conservation pool level) the river channel becomes too deep to wade just a few hundred yards downstream from the bridge. The water was off color, and we didn’t have much success, so we decided to try the upstream side of the bridge. As we crossed the bridge on our way upstream we saw a ten year old boy and his grandfather fishing from the bridge. They were using a spinning rod to drop worms straight down by the side of the bridge and catching small, four and five inch, sunfish. Each time he pulled up a fish the boy announced his current catch count, and as we passed by he announced fifty five.

In my memory the river upstream from the bridge used to be wide and shallow and running over a scoured limestone bottom for a long way upstream; you used to have to go quite a way upstream before finding water deep enough to hold fish. However, the summer flash floods had changed things, and Clint and I found a fishable pool not too far upstream and more pools fairly frequently as we went farther up. The first fish we each caught were tiny, not much bigger than the fly, and, after our lack of success downstream, we thought we were going to have a bad day fishing. However, we started catching small bass, mostly ranging from seven to ten inches long, and we kept catching these small bass as we worked our way upstream. We caught very few sunfish and caught nothing over twelve inches long, but between the two of us we caught at least fifty of those small bass. The most successful fly was a quickly retrieved chartreuse and white deep Clouser minnow

We went about a mile or a mile and a half upstream before turning back. The whole area we fished, and farther up stream too, had been flooded when Lake Georgetown was at its fullest, and the retreating water left a four inch layer of silt over everything. When we were wading the silt masked the bumps and ridges of the bottom and every step kicked up a plume of mud. The water was off color; you couldn’t see the bottom in thigh deep water. This probably made the fish less skittish than they would have been in clear water. The slit layer near the river’s edge was still a wet slippery sucking mud that made walking difficult. I think it will be a long time before this part of the river returns to a clear stream running over scoured limestone, like it used to be, but maybe some of these fish will stay and grow bigger.

March 23, 2007, Don Johnson

I fished from about 7:00am till about 11:00am and caught only one white bass. I saw about ten other fishermen on the river, and they were all having the same poor luck.

March 21, 2007, Don Johnson

Tommy Griffis I and started fishing at about 5:00pm. We fished our way all the way down to the old bridge and had no luck at all. We saw two people with good stringers, but most folks seemed to be having little luck. We started fishing our way back toward the park when, at about 6:30pm, and two or three hundred yards up from the bridge (map), the fished suddenly started biting. I began hooking a fish on every fourth or fifth cast; I landed seven or eight and did a long distance release on two more. I was using a #8 grey clouser tied with red thread. Then, just as suddenly, the fish stopped biting at about 7:00pm. At 7:30pm we left the water and headed home.

March 19, 2007, Don Johnson

I was on the water from about 7:00am till about noon. Caught 6 whites, two of which were pretty small. I met another fly fisherman who gave me the most successful fly of the day - a clouser made of a little red and and a little chartreuse flash.

All the fishermen I talked to where having about having the same results that I was, that is, slow compared to saturday (see March 17 fishing report below). The ones that were keeping their fish had stringers of about four to six fish.

March 17 and 18, Bruce Wilks

Went fly fishing 3 hours last Sat 03/17/07 on the San Gabriel below Tejas Camp above lake Georgetown and caught 20 whites between 4:30pm and 7:30pm about 300 yards above old bridge down river from Tejas Camp...

Went back Sunday and caught 21 whites but it took 5 hours of fishing between 9:30am and 5:30pm, had to do lots of casting, striping and moving up and down a 50 yard stretch of the river...

The whites shut down after 2:30pm on Sunday... Could see lots of whites, but they were much more interested in spawning than taking a fly...;)... Lots of males chasing and swimming in circles around some big females... I saw some females that would have easily been 18" surrounded by males... Most of this action took place at my feet or just in front of my rod... This went on for hours... I still caught 5 more after 2:00pm. But it took me 3 hours to do so and I had to do lots of casting and striping and moving up and down the long pool to entice them to strike... I caught 16 in the morning in 3 hours all inside a 100" section of this long pool

March 17, 2007, Don Johnson

GOOD NEWS – the recent rains have put enough depth and flow in the North fork to bring the white bass up almost all the way to Tejas Park

I fished from first light (about 7:15am) until noon on Saturday and had a good day. I wasn’t keeping the fish and didn’t keep an exact count, but total catch was easily over 20 fish. Almost all of the fish were good sized – in the 12 to 14 inch range, some larger.

The fish aren’t evenly distributed in the river; they seemed to be holding in pockets of waist deep, or deeper, water. The farthest down stream I got was about 200 or 300 yards upstream from the old bridge. I saw some people fishing down by the bridge, but I don’t know how they were doing – I caught all my fish without having to go down that far.

I used a grey wooly bugger with bead chain eyes and a Cypert minnow with grey chenille underbody, both in size 6 or 8.

I saw several other fly fishermen on the river, and, for the most part, the fly fishermen were outfishing the spin fishermen by two or three to one. One of the spin fishermen, who was fishing for white bass using 4 pound test line, hooked and landed a gar that must have been over three f eet long – pretty exciting to watch.

February 24 2007, Clint Barton

I fished Tejas Saturday morning and caught 5 carp while losing 2. The carp ranged from 2.5 # to 6.5#. The day started off cloudy and the sun later came out. The wind really picked up later in the morning, but by that time I had already caught my fish. I went all the way to the big boulders past the second bridge below Tejas and never saw even one white bass. I saw a few bass and quite a few more carp, but no whites. I attached three pics of the 6.5# fish and one pic of a 3 pounder that just looked “different” from the others.

October 30, 2006, Don Johnson

I got on the water at about 7:00 a.m. and left at about 10:30 a.m. I fished downstream from the bridge. During the summer drought the river bed had been almost completely dry, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was water in the pools (many places over knee deep, several over waist deep) and even a little flow through the riffles between pools. Air temperature was about 60 degrees when I started fishing, warming some later. It was pretty windy, making it difficult to cast during the occasional gust. I don't know what the water temperature was, but I felt cool on my legs -- I was glad that I had decided to wear waders. The water was not crystal clear the way the San Gabriel sometimes is, but the visibility was pretty good.

I caught about 8 small (4 inches to 6 inches) sunfish. Some went for a yellow mini gurgler, the rest for a "sucker punch" which is a weighted rusty brown nymph. I walked down as far as the old bridge, but I didn't fish for the last quarter mile, just enjoyed the walk. Most of the fish were caught between the country road 258 bridge and the first deeper pool. I saw several carp feeding singly, but was only able to cast to two before they spooked, and got no takers. On the way out I stopped and fished under the 258 bridge, and this is where I caught 3 of the larger fish.