Fished one of our favorite crossings on the Guadalupe yesterday, and we haven't fished it since late last fall.
I can remember when this place was a secret, and you never saw anyone, or if you did, you worried about the movie Deliverance.
But a late friend dubbed it the "40 crossing" because he drove by there one day and 40 cars were parked around the bridge.
So the water gets hit hard, and meat-fished.
but you can see why we can't stay away
my friend and TX rodmaker Floyd Burkett was along
I have one of his step-ups of a Cattanach taper, an 7'10" 5-wt. that has proved to be a great tailwater rod on the Guadalupe below Canyon Dam
Also a great rod for wide open rivers like the Llano - which most people think of with the TX hill country.
But I fish much tighter water with cypress overhangs - seems to be the whole point in the TX heat (we still made into the 90s with high humidity yesterday, guys)
OK, sorry for the divergence - we were way upriver, fishing warmwater for endemic Guadalupe bass
Floyd asked me to test drive his Driggs taper - the second tip still isn't finished yet
7'2" 5-wt, semi-parabolic. Does everything - roll casts and loads to blast out distance.
Really a perfect rod for most of the Texas hill country
he also had a nice up-down seat on it. Floyd makes everything on his rods, from the butt cap to the tip top
show you the pretty water
and a couple of nice bass were caught - not by me, and on Fenwick glass
I can remember when this place was a secret, and you never saw anyone, or if you did, you worried about the movie Deliverance.
But a late friend dubbed it the "40 crossing" because he drove by there one day and 40 cars were parked around the bridge.
So the water gets hit hard, and meat-fished.
but you can see why we can't stay away
my friend and TX rodmaker Floyd Burkett was along
I have one of his step-ups of a Cattanach taper, an 7'10" 5-wt. that has proved to be a great tailwater rod on the Guadalupe below Canyon Dam
Also a great rod for wide open rivers like the Llano - which most people think of with the TX hill country.
But I fish much tighter water with cypress overhangs - seems to be the whole point in the TX heat (we still made into the 90s with high humidity yesterday, guys)
OK, sorry for the divergence - we were way upriver, fishing warmwater for endemic Guadalupe bass
Floyd asked me to test drive his Driggs taper - the second tip still isn't finished yet
7'2" 5-wt, semi-parabolic. Does everything - roll casts and loads to blast out distance.
Really a perfect rod for most of the Texas hill country
he also had a nice up-down seat on it. Floyd makes everything on his rods, from the butt cap to the tip top
show you the pretty water
and a couple of nice bass were caught - not by me, and on Fenwick glass
