Our meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month. The meetings are held at (map).

Chamber of Commerce building
100 Stadium Street
Georgetown, Texas

We begin gathering at 6:30 p.m.; the night's program starts at 7:00 p.m. and usually runs about one hour. During the half hour before the program begins there are usually one or two members tying flies who are more than willing to answer questions from beginners and to discuss tying techniques with more advanced tiers. Sometimes, depending on the weather, there is practice fly casting on the lawn beside the building. This is a good time for members to talk about the past month's fishing and for new members and prospective members to learn about the club and its activities.

Programs scheduled for upcoming meetings

Tuesday August 5, 2008

Chris Johnson will be our speaker at the August meeting. Chris runs the Living Waters Fly Fishing guide service and is the owner of the newly opened Living Waters Fly Fishing fly shop located at 2111 Sam Bass Rd., Suite B-2000A in the Boardwalk shopping center in Round Rock

Notes from Previous meetings

Tuesday July 1, 2008

Kevin Hutchinson demonstrated fly tying before the meeting and then talked about fishing the Llano river. As an added bonus, to make up for the miscommunication last month, Kevin donated a free guided fishing trip on the Llano river which was raffled off at the end of the meeting.

Kevin guides on the hill country rivers. He can be reached through his web site www.hillcountryflyfishers.com

Tuesday May 6, 2008

Marcus Rodriguez of The Guides of Texas was our speaker. Marcus and his guiding partner, Johnny Quiroz, have years of experience fishing and guiding on the hill country rivers.

The club elected two new board members: David Elkins and Pete Walker. They will replace outgoing members Bob Williams and Keith Lovin.

Tuesday April 1, 2008

The presentation was a DVD titled “Why Fly Fishing”.

By exploring the many facets of the sport–the athletic, the intellectual, the scientific and the artistic–the film shows the deep satisfaction and fun anglers experience. All this is seen through the eyes of some of fly fishing’s foremost practioners—Joan Wulff, Nick Lyons, James Prosek, Flip Pallot, John Gierach, the Revel brothers, Keith Fulsher and Diana Rudolph. This film is a great way to introduce the sport to others whom we would like to become interested, and it also helps us to truly understand why we love it so much.

The nominating committee for next year‘s board of directors was announced. The members of the nominating committee are Bob Brooks(Chairman), Tommy Griffis, and Doug Cornwell. Contact one of these committee members if you have anyone, yourself or someone else, you would like to see nominated.

Tuesday March 4, 2008

Our March program was a presentation by Dr. Gary Garrett, Director of the TPWD Heart of the Hills Research Station in Ingram, outside Kerrville. He spoke on the current status of the Guadalupe Bass Initiative. This program’s objective is to attempt to reverse the hybridization of Guadalupe bass with the introduced Smallmouth, and restore a pure strain of Guadalupe bass to many of the streams where it is native. The program stocks pure strain Guadalupes in large numbers, to effectively overwhelm the hybrid population in a particular watershed. To date, the program has been a success on Johnson Creek, a tributary of the upper Guadalupe, and is continuing in that watershed.

More information can be found in this article in the San Marcos Daily Record and in this page From the Texas Parks and Wildlife web site

Tuesday February 5, 2008

Alvin Dedeaux was our speaker. He gave a presentation on trout fishing in the Guadalupe River.

Alvin was manager of The Austin Angler for the last 12 years it was open and has been guiding in the hill country for over 12 years. Alvin now guides in the Vail area of Colorado during the summer. He has fished all over the Western U.S., in Chile, and a little bit in Honduras and Belize. He is also a graduate of the first ever Joan Wulff fly casting instructors school. He says that when he is not guiding he loves to just go fishing.

Alvin's web site is http://www.alvindedeaux.com. He can be reached via email at alvin@alvindedeaux.com

Tuesday January 8, 2008

Our program was a DVD on stream insects and habitat, with underwater footage.

Tuesday December 4, 2007

On Tuesday, December 4, 2007, the San Gabriel Flyfishers had our Third Annual Christmas Party, in conjunction with our regular monthly meeting. As we did last year, the party was be held in the Main Ballroom at Berry Creek Country Club. The program will included:

• Silent Auction with both fly fishing and other prizes (restaurant freebee’s, etc.)
• Music program
• Raffle for door prizes

Financially, the event was a great success, as the club netted over $900 from the event, after expenses. Kent Conner was the lucky winner of the Sage Fly Rod and Reel, an outfit worth $1000 retail, for one $20 raffle ticket! Way to go, Kent! For those of you not able to attend, you missed a great time, and we hope you have a chance to come next year

Tuesday November 6, 2007

Our presenter was Rick Pope of Temple Fork Outfitters who talked about TFO fly rods and reels.

Tuesday October 2, 2007

Our presenter was Keith Barnes of Highland Lakes Fly Fishing. Keith specializes in fly fishing trips on the lakes that form the Highland Lakes chain (including stripers on Lake Buchanan)

Keith's web site is www.highlandlakesflyfishing.com .

Tuesday September 4, 2007

Our presenter was Jacob Granstaff, owner of “Wet a Fly Technologies” in San Antonio, Texas. Jacob created his company based around a new epoxy substitute for fly tying called “Tuffleye”. This new product has been endorsed by Bob Popovics and was presented in the July 2006 issue of Fly Fisherman magazine.

We also had a brief presentation about the Oktoberfisch fly fishing festival from Gene Smith of the Fredericksburg Fly Fishers.

Tuesday August 7, 2007

Our presenter was Floyd Burkett — builder of bamboo fly rods.

Floyd has lived in Universal City, Texas for the past 20 years. Five years ago he began building bamboo fly rods and taught himself through some intense research and perseverance. After building his first 5 rods using purchased hardware, he purchased some metal working equipment and now makes all of the components for the rods-the guides, seat, and ferrules. Floyd has passion for bamboo!

Floyd can be reached at UCbamboorodmaker@sbcglobal.net or (210) 659-7243

Tuesday July 3, 2007

Our speaker was the inimitable Kevin Hutchison. Kevin give a program on the San Marcos River and also tied a red squirrel nymph, one of his favorite flies on that river. Club officers for the coming year were introduced at the meeting. The new officers are: Randy Johnson - president, Clint Barton - vice president, Kent Conner - secretary, and Mike Ives - Treasurer.

Tuesday June 5, 2007

The six directors for the upcomming year were elected by the membership. The new directors are: Randy Johnson, Clint Barton, Bob Williams, Keith Lovin, George Kurhajec and Brooks Bouldin.

Tuesday May 1, 2007

Dr. Guy Harrison, of the Hill Country Fly Fishers, spoke about the Guadalupe Bass restoration initiative and about his club's youth programs.

Tuesday April 3, 2007

We saw two videos on smallmouth bass fishing from our president's extensive collection.

Tuesday March 6, 2007

Our program was video that took you into the world of some of our top fly rod manufacturers.

Tuesday Feburary 6, 2007

Bruce Moring gave a program on entomology for the Hill Country flyfisher and discussed an opportunity for club members to make a trip to the Devil's River and stay at the Nature Conservancy Preserve at Dolan Falls.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Before the evening's presentation, Clint Barton demonstrated how to tie a Zebra Nymph, and Brooks demonstrated how to tie a woven fly body without letting go of the yarn.

Our speaker for the evening was fishing and hunting guide Kevin Stubbs who gave an excellent presentation on fishing the Devil's river, the upper and lower Guadalupe, and the Llano. Kevin can be reached at:

• expedition-outfitters.net
• kevinstu@msn.com
• (210)602-9284

You can use these to contact Kevin about his guide services, and he also graciously offered to respond to any general questions about fishing the area rivers.

December 5, 2006

The Christmas party was a great success. We had some nice donations on the silent auction tables and they generated $844 and the Sage Rod and Reel raffle netted another $135. Cody Fisher, master magician, provided amazing slight of hand entertainment during the cocktail hour and Mr. Puppet, Bob Abdou, kept the crowd laughing after dinner. Randy and Linda Johnson helped Bob to get us in the Christmas spirit ( see photos with the December president's letter).

November 7, 2006

Our guest speaker was Johnny Cargill of the Guadalupe Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Six of our members have recently returned from Mountain Home Arkansas where we attended the conclave and/or fished the White River. All had a great time and expressed a desire to return. Ironically, we have an equally good trout fishery within an hour and a half of Georgetown on the Guadalupe (or "Guad" as it is affectionately called by regulars there). While the White is much larger and has larger numbers of fish, the areas on the Guad that are stocked by TU hold lots of fish and the average size is greater. Last year the Guadalupe was named one of the best 100 trout streams in the country. The GRTU chapter has done an outstanding job of stewardship on the river for many years. This year's stocking program is slated to begin around the end of November, if the weather permits. Johnny described Guadalupe River Chapter of Trout Unlimited's activities and programs, including its stocking programs, its program for acquiring leased access to the river for its members, and its cooperation with other agencies like Texas Parks and WildLife and Texas State University to study and maintain the fishery.

October 3, 2006

The October 3rd meeting was a swap meet.

September 5, 2006

Our guest speaker for September was Jack Ellis of Woodville, in the heart of East Texas. Jack is author of "Bassin' With a Fly Rod" and "The Sunfishes" and has contributed numerous articles to magazines and newsletters. Jack's program had a special appeal for those fly fishers making a transition from cold water to warm water fishing. He shared tips and techniques for catching Texas Sunfish; his enthusiasm for these scrappy fighters was obvious.

August 1, 2006

Kudos to Kevin Hutchison for a spirited and entertaining program at the August meeting. He tied a couple of his favorite flies for Hill Country fishing and presented an interesting slide show. It is easy to see how much Kevin enjoys hill country fly fishing.