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Fishing Travis County Southeast Metropolitan Park
The Travis County metropolitan park system is an odd mish-mash of recreational opportunities. These parks have ball fields and playscapes like a city park, but they also have hiking and...
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Five Days Straight of Fishing in Austin
I’ve been bringing my fly rod and hand-tied flies to work, and every day after work I’ve taken to the ponds and lakes on my way home. It’s big change from the state of affairs during the winter when...
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Austin Fishing Team Explores Lost Creek
I’ve been in Austin for ten years, but I hadn’t known that if you went far enough up the Barton Creek green belt, you’ll find a permanent stretch of water. It’s essentially in Westlake, just a ways up...
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Five Days of Austin Fishing Redux
I think I’ve finally glutted my appetite for spring fishing. At least I’ve slightly dulled the hunger. This Friday marked the second week of continuous after-work fishing. I tried covering new ground...
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Eating Perch from Lady Bird Lake
I caught a decent sized bluegill on Lady Bird Lake recently, pictured here against the backdrop of the Holly Street power plant. I caught it about an hour or two before sunset, coaxing it into rising...
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Fishing Overnight on the Colorado
For a while now I’ve been fascinated with the stretch of the Colorado River downstream from Lady Bird Lake. At one point, my friend Peter Gabriel and I planned on taking a float trip down the river...
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Behind a Big Box Store
The fishing team got a hot tip that if one were to go to the hinterlands of Austin, to the sprawling suburbs, that behind a certain big box store there was a rainwater runoff settling pond, and that...
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Fishing Bull Creek
Most people know Bull Creek as the Austin park that’s constantly getting closed to swimming because of dangerous levels of fecal bacteria. But for those of us with fly rods and a penchant for urban...
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Day Trips Fishing the Colorado River
When the weather’s right, the fishing team will head down to the old Colorado River for a little swimsuit fishing. Now that I’ve had some more experience with the Colorado, I would have to compare it...
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A Couple of Big Bass
I was biking through South Austin this evening and I noticed that some of the red buds had started to bloom already. As a fisherguy that of course made me think about a year ago, near the end of the...
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The Foam Gaga Spider – Fly-tying recipe
Foam Gaga SpiderBy Matthew Bey on 10/10/2013The foam Gaga Spider takes all the delicious, buggy elements of sub-surface nymphs, and combines it with the fast and furious top-water action of a foam...
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Mysterious Fish From Texas Gulf Coast
This is a post which is open pandering for a fish identification. Over the weekend I was fishing off the Caldwell Pier in Port Aransas. It was about one in the morning and just a little after high...
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Austin Fishing Team Explores Lost Creek
I’ve been in Austin for ten years, but I hadn’t known that if you went far enough up the Barton Creek green belt, you’ll find a permanent stretch of water. It’s essentially in Westlake, just a ways up...
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Five Days of Austin Fishing Redux
I think I’ve finally glutted my appetite for spring fishing. At least I’ve slightly dulled the hunger. This Friday marked the second week of continuous after-work fishing. I tried covering new ground...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eating Perch from Lady Bird Lake
I caught a decent sized bluegill on Lady Bird Lake recently, pictured here against the backdrop of the Holly Street power plant. I caught it about an hour or two before sunset, coaxing it into rising...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fishing Overnight on the Colorado
For a while now I’ve been fascinated with the stretch of the Colorado River downstream from Lady Bird Lake. At one point, my friend Peter Gabriel and I planned on taking a float trip down the river...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Behind a Big Box Store
The fishing team got a hot tip that if one were to go to the hinterlands of Austin, to the sprawling suburbs, that behind a certain big box store there was a rainwater runoff settling pond, and that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fishing Bull Creek
Most people know Bull Creek as the Austin park that’s constantly getting closed to swimming because of dangerous levels of fecal bacteria. But for those of us with fly rods and a penchant for urban...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Day Trips Fishing the Colorado River
When the weather’s right, the fishing team will head down to the old Colorado River for a little swimsuit fishing. Now that I’ve had some more experience with the Colorado, I would have to compare it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Couple of Big Bass
I was biking through South Austin this evening and I noticed that some of the red buds had started to bloom already. As a fisherguy that of course made me think about a year ago, near the end of the...
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