Ed, Author at NEW BRAUNFELS FLY FISHING CLUB

There will not be a November Club Meeting

Folks,

This is a reminder that we will not be having a November meeting this month Our next meeting will be a combined November / December meeting due to the holiday season. The meeting will be held on December 11th at the New Braunfels Library’s Westside Community Center from 6:00 – 8:00. The address is 2932 S IH 35 Frontage Road. The meeting room at the E.Commons main public library is not available at this time.

Our guest speaker will be John Cadran “JC”. He will be presenting EURO Nymphing on the Guadalulpe. Many of you have met JC. He was at the recent GRTU river clean up and also finished 2nd place at our Holdover Tournament.

Concerning your FFI membership expiration date. Please double check your expiration date. If it has expired please renew your membership with FFI. If you have already renewed your membership please send me your current expiration date. We are coming up on year end and our club roster that is submitted along with our annual report to FFI needs to include only current FFI members.

Thanks,

Pat

TFTX 2025 TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!

Thank you for supporting GRTU and helping to make Troutfest TX a coveted show stop for anglers and their families from all over the country. We thank our Sponsors, Donors, and Exhibitors for their continued support!

We are well underway with planning for TFTX 2025… We already have a powerful group of Presenters, an amazing roster of brands exhibiting at the Expo, and more fun additions to the Kids’ area.

We hope you’ll join us for Troutfest TX 25 Feb 21-23, 2025. Tickets for the Banquet and Movie Night are on sale now and we anticipate selling out again this year… so we encourage you to get your tickets early!

See you at Troutfest TX 2025!

Lise Lozelle & Bill Marshall

Troutfest TX Co-Chairs

Get your TFTX 25 Tickets HERE

Our next Chapter Meeting will be Saturday, November 16th from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm at Rio Guadalupe Resort. Food and drinks will be provided.
Judson Cole of Rio Anglers will be the guest speaker and he will be discussing Fishing the Guadalupe River in the Winter. Click HERE to view the agenda

If you cannot attend in person, you can attend via Zoom using the link below. Remember you must register in advance.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PxAlOWp4TI2l2XnB2PAqzw#/registration

2024 HOLDOVER TOURNAMENT RESULTS

2024 HOLDOVER TOURNAMENT

The 2024 New Braunfels Fly Fishers Holdover Tournament was a great success with 40 participants and five guides. There were 16 Rainbow Trout, 98 Sunfish, 8 Red Horse Suckers, and 4 bass caught. The longest fish was a 21 ½ inch Rainbow Trout. Bob Powell travelled the farthest coming from Grand Junction, Colorado to fish with his two sons, Ben and Rob.

Nick Skalomenos won the tournament with 24 sunfish and 1 bass

JC Cadran placed 2^nd with 1 Rainbow Trout, 3 Bass and 10 Sunfish

Coleton Byrd place 3^rd with 4 Rainbow Trout

Gage Harris (pictured with his father Brandon) won longest fish with a 21 ½ inch Rainbow Trout

The New Braunfels Fly Fishers would like to thank all that donated cash and prizes to the tournament: WORD, Canyon Lake; Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited; Brookshire Brothers, Canyon Lake; Gruene Outfitters; New Braunfels; Ace Hardware, Canyon Lake; Living Waters Fly Fishing, Roundrock; HEB, Hwy 46, New Braunfels; Fly Fishers International; ReelFly Fishing Adventures, Canyon Lake; Horseshoe Grill, Canyon Lake and Action Angler Fly Shop and Outdoor Center. We would also like to thank the guides who supported our tournament: Chris Jackson, Action Angler Fly Shop and Outdoor Center, Jud Cole, RIO Anglers; Daniel Hughes, Daniel Hughes Fly Fishing; Cody Lacroix, Lacroix’s Fly Fishing and Jared Staab, Staab Fly Fishing, Canyon Lake.

Please support these businesses that support us.

We hope to see you next year for the 2025 Holdover Tournament which will be held on the tentative date of November 1, 2025.

Handling and Releasing Fish

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Get our new, free publication, “Handling and Releasing Fish,” for anglers to lessen fish stress and catch-and-release mortality. It is available at MDC offices and nature centers, online at www.mdc.mo.gov or ordered through our Free Publications webpage at https://mdc.mo.gov/magazines/all-free-publications…

Even though this is a FREE publication from MO it does have information on handling and releasing fish. Right now it is catch and release season here. And some rivers and locations are fly’s only, no spinners and no bait allowed. Plenty of people are fishing and having fun and catching plenty of fish with the archaic method of fly fishing.

NBFF Fly Tying session Thursday November 17th

The NBFF Fly Tying session will be held this Thursday, November 7th, from 6-8:00 pm at the Westside Community Center, 2932 South IH T35 Frontage Road in New Braunfels. This month we will be tying the Woolly Bugger fly. This is a good streamer fly on the Guadalupe. We will start promptly at 6 with a short educational video on fly tying and then we will watch the tying video on tying the Wooly Bugger. The club will supply the needed tying materials and if needed we have several club tool sets, but please feel free to bring your own. Tie a couple for yourself and some for the monthly fly raffle at our monthly club meeting.

Hope to see you there,

Gary