Guadalupe River Fly Fishing and Trout Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Monday March 13, 2023. Eric and his son from El Paso joined us for a beautiful afternoon float on the Guadalupe River in the Trophy Trout Zone below Canyon Lake. The morning started off overcast and cool with temps in the high 40's. The skies cleared by noon and warmed to the mid 60's. There was a massive Mayfly hatch with Tricos and BWO's represented. It was the guy's first time to fly fish, so we started off with a brief lesson on the shore before our float. The guys caught on pretty quickly and we started to drift our nymph rigs at the Devils Playground near Lazy L and L. Our first cast was an immediate hook up and Eric lost the fish when his rod tip gave the line slack. Eric junior hooked up next and landed a nice Guadalupe Rainbow Trout. We also caught and released several sunfish and small bass too. Our best flies were sucker spawn egg patterns and San Juan Worms.

Guadalupe River Trout  Fly Fishing Guides Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Updated Tuesday March 14, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam Release was cold and clear with very few fishers on the upper end, mainly hikers, tourists and families. Most of the fishermen were downstream near Action Angler. The fished are stacked up between there and just downstream. Topwater patterns were getting them and nymphs like the Zug Bug, Prince, Copper John and others were working too. Our company offers guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction near Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels.

Guadalupe Fishing Guides Fly Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Wednesday March 15, 2023. The day started out cool but became very nice with partly cloudy skies and temps in the high 60's. There were quite a few people out fishing on the Guadalupe River and Canyon Lake was pretty busy too. The release from Canyon Dam was still pretty low but running cold and clear. There were some Caddis hatching with grasshoppers starting to show up on the grassy banks. We used a Hopper/Dropper rig and picked up some nice sunfish and small bass. We also caught and released a couple of Rainbow Trout in the 14 inch class. We're expecting a cold front tomorrow night to drop temps back into the 40's and 50's for a few days. The cooler temps should help the trout bite and probably slow down the bass and sunfish bite.

Guadalupe River Trout Fishing Guides Fly Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Thursday March 16, 2023. The spring day was very nice with warm temps, but it was a little windy. We didn't notice a significant hatch but the rainbows were still hitting our nymph rigs. The release from Canyon Lake was cold and a little chalky green. We decided to use three flies under an indicator, jus to spice things up. We used an epoxy back stonefly with a Squirmy Worm dropper and a Trico dropped in the bottom with 5X tippet. We caught and released several nice fish mainly on the smaller dropper. There were very few people out on the water and it was pleasant that way. If you need fly fishing lessons to improve your game, give us a shout.

Guadalupe Fly Fishing Guide Trout Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Friday March 17, 2023. The day started out with unseasonably cold temps in the 40's and strong north winds, with light rain. We rescheduled the trips we had for later in the week. There were still several guide boats on the Guadalupe but the clients and guides looked like wet dogs. While scouting around, we did not see any insect hatches. We saw several fly fishers that were wading , and they said they were getting fish on streamers. It sounded like olive buggers, or Clouser Minnows from the reports.

Guadalupe Fly Fishing Guides Trout Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Updated Sunday March 19, 2023. The morning started off overcast with temps in the high 40's. The wind was light from the northeast. Sebastiaan and Johan joined us from Belgium. The guys always wanted to fly fish and the weather was better here than Colorado or New Mexico, they said. We started with casting lessons on the shore and learned the basics before our float. After that, we go into the raft for a 4 mile float to Action Angler. We had quite a few takes, but the guys missed the hook set at first. They learned to watch the strike indicator carefully, and were rewarded with nice Guadalupe Trout. Our best flies were drowned Trico Spinners dropped under a Stonefly Nymph.

Guadalupe River and Canyon Lake Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Tuesday March 21, 2023. The morning started off with light rain and cool temps in the 60's. We saw this coming, so we rescheduled our trips until later in the week. We did however, do a quick scouting trip/survey for this report. There were several fly fishers at Action Angler so we jumped into the river to try our luck. There were lots of big rainbow trout in the channeled rocks down the hill from the shop. Our best flies were Sucker spawn egg patterns and San Juan Worms. We caught and released one Guadalupe trout that was in the 4 lb class. What's not to like? Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes and Streams in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels Texas area too.

Guadalupe River Trout Fishing Guides and Canyon Lake Fishing Guide Current Report and Conditions: Thursday March 23, 2023. Sassy and Bill from Houston joined us for a Guadalupe Trout float on the lower section below Canyon Lake. The flow was low, but very fishable for an enjoyable raft float. We didn't encounter any other fishers on our section of the river and the weather was nice with comfortable temps and partly cloudy skies. We managed to catch and release a couple of really nice trout and some warmwater species too. The Rubber Legged Stonefly Nymph was our best fly. We also had success on Sucker Spawn egg patterns. Expedition Outfitters offer guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers in the Austin area, San Antonio area and New Braunfels area too.

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Friday March 24, 2023. A cold front blew in this morning with a brief rain shower and temps in the high 60's. The day quickly warmed to 80 degrees after the sun reappeared. There were a few anglers on the Guadalupe at the Action Angler access and they reported good catches before the temps warmed too high. There was a nice Mayfly hatch with Tricos and BWO's. The anglers we talked to said their best flies were Squirmy worms and Prince Nymphs. We also heard that sucker spawn egg patterns were doing well too.

Fly Fishing in Austin and San Antonio area Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Updated Saturday March 25, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was clear and cold with good fishing flows. The day started off cool with temps in the 50's. It quickly warmed to the 80's by noon with partly cloudy skies. There was another nice Mayfly hatch about 10:00 am with BWO's and Tricos too. There were quite a few fishers on the water, but it wasn't crowded. The best flies reported by successful fishers was the Prince Nymph, San Juan Worm and Damsel Nymph too. The water temp at Canyon Lake Dam tailrace was 54.6 degrees. Our company offers fly fishing trips in the San Antonio area, New Braunfels area and Austin area too.

Guadalupe River and Canyon Lake Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Monday March 27, 2023. Morning temps were cool in the high 50's with overcast skies. The skies became partly cloudy with some sunshine about 3:00 pm. There were few fly fishers but it wasn't crowded. We saw Caddis, Damsels and some afternoon Mayflies too. The wind was gusty from the northeast and blew the groups of bugs around. Successful flies were Stonefly Nymphs, Zug Bugs, Brown San Juan Worms, and egg patterns.

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Guides and Canyon Lake Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Thursday March 30, 2023. The morning started out overcast with mild temps in the lower 60's. The wind was light from the northeast. The Canyon Lake Dam release was cold and clear feeding the Guadalupe River. We did some scouting at the Action Angler access on River Road, near New Braunfels. There was only one other person fishing, and he was killing it. He saw him catch and release fish, after fish; running two nymphs below a strike indicator. One rainbow he landed had to be over 4 lbs and it jumped like an acrobat. We finally broke down and asked the guy what he was using. He said a stonefly nymph with a sucker spawn egg dropper.

Guadalupe River and Canyon Lake Fishing Guides Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Saturday, April 1, 2023. Robin and Jerry joined us for a short morning float on the Guadalupe River. The Canyon Lake Dam release was clear and cold with plenty of uncrowded fishing spots. The morning started off clear with temps in the high 40's. The day quickly warmed to about 80 degrees around noon, but the clouds rolled back in to cool us down a little for the afternoon. We hooked some nice rainbows and we tangled with some bass. Our best flies were Zug Bugs, Prince Nymphs, and egg patterns.

Guadalupe River and Canyon Lake Fishing Guides Report and Current Conditions: Sunday April 2, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was clear and cold with a very fishable flow. The day started off cool with cloudy skies and calm winds. There were very few fishers on the water and that was a welcome surprise. Robin Johnson and Amy Hardberger joined us for a half day scouting trip on the Guadalupe River in the lower trout section. We hooked several nice fish and Robin landed a really nice rainbow trout on a Nymph rig. The stonefly with rubber legs was a good performer, and the Prince Nymph got some action too. We saw Tricos hatching, Caddis, Damsels and Crane Flies too. There were a few fish eating bugs on the top, but not great numbers doing that. Our action was sub-surface.

Guadalupe Trout Fishing Guides Fly Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Wednesday April 5, 2023. Rusty Heitzman joined us for a fun filled day on the lower Guadalupe River near Canyon Lake. The day started out with a little light rain and overcast skies as a norther blew in. The winds were around 20 mph and the river flow was fine for fishing. We kept waiting on an insect hatch, but it never came. The wind might have kept them disbursed. It was pretty slow, but we managed a few fish including a really hard fighting male rainbow about 3 lbs. Our best fly was a bead head stonefly nymph with rubber legs. There wasn't anyone else on our stretch of the river and that was fine with us.

Guadalupe Trout Fly Fishing Guide and Canyon Lake Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Saturday April 8, 2023. Half day float/fly fishing lesson with Jessica and her Dad from Midland Texas produced two new fly fishers. They were smart and listened carefully to the guide. The day was overcast with cool temps for this time of year. The wind was from the north about 5-10 mph. We didn't see any insects hatching and that was a bummer. We did see, some spawning sucker fishes and very few fishers. We managed to land some fish, including a 20 inch rainbow trout that Jessica caught and released. Our best flies were the San Juan Worm and bead head stonefly nymphs. What's not to like?

Guadalupe River and Canyon Lake Fishing Guide Report and Current Conditions: Sunday April 9, 2023. It started out with overcast skies and temps in the high 50's. The Canyon Lake Dam release was cold and clear. The river was not crowded and there were fish being caught...and released. We heard several fishers say that the Damsel Nymph, Prince Nymph, and Stone Fly Nymph were doing the job. 4X tippet was needed and fluorocarbon was the go to leader. The winds were light and from the northeast. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons and instruction in the Austin area, San Antonio, and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Fly Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Updated Tuesday April 11, 2023. Canyon Lake is 78.6  percent full. The release from Canyon Lake Dam was clear and cold at 54 degrees F. Scott from Dripping Springs, TX joined us for a short float on the lower section below Rio Raft Company. There was a nice Caddis hatch and BWO's too. The morning was good, but the afternoon was slow until we rigged up for warmwater species. The stonefly nymph saved us. We caught and released about fifteen fish. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels are too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Sunday April 16, 2023. Canyon Lake level was 78% full with clear water conditions. The day started off cool with temps in the low 60's F. The winds were from the northeast at 10-20 mph. There were not very many people out, and it was nice to see that. We had good reports of largemouth and smallmouth bass still in various stages of spawning, The striper activity was also good with a topwater bite and schools on top of shad baitballs. The bleeding shad fly, was the top performer on a weight forward floating flyline. The upper end of the lake at the river mouth, was producing white bass at 15-25 feet of depth. Crappie were also being caught around drowned timber in the river channel.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Report and Conditions: Monday April 17, 2023. Scouting trip on Canyon Lake with Spencer McHaney and his lovely lady Alissa was a funtime. We had some action, but overall the bite was slow. The wind started out calm with clear blue skies and temps in the mid 50's. The wind promptly picked up to 15 mph in a couple of hours. Our best fly was the Game Changer in black. Canyon Lake is 78% percent full with clear water conditions on the upper end, near the dam; and relatively clear with a green stain on the confluence with the Guadalupe River.

 

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Report and Conditions: Updated Tuesday April 18, 2023. The outflow from Canyon Lake Dam was clear and cold. The day started off cool with temps in the high 50's. The morning was overcast, but the sun came out around 1:00 pm with partly cloudy skies. It warmed to 84 degrees before the clouds appeared around 4:00. The trout bite was slow, but we managed some nice bass on fly, downstream of Rio Guadalupe Resort about 1.5 miles. Our best fly was the black popper with white rubber legs. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction near Austin, San Antonio, and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Friday April 21, 2023. Overnight thunderstorms brought hail, flash flooding and high winds to the Guadalupe River Valley. The lightning was constant, but no damage was seen. The river rose about 50% from its pre rain flow. The channel was chocolate with some debris. The aquifer went up slightly from rain in the recharge zone. We rescheduled our trips for this morning and we're looking forward to getting back out there tomorrow morning!

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Report and Conditions: Saturday April 22, 2023. Morning trip on Canyon Lake produced some hook ups and big bass follows. Our clients were beginner fly fishers and our trip was mainly a lesson. We actually started out with a casting lesson on the bow of the boat and transitioned to fishing after we got the casting mechanics down. Canyon Lake is 78% full and the water is clear in the big part of the lake, and stained dark green and brown where the local creeks come in. Our best fly was a crawfish pattern and it produced some action. The release from Canyon Lake Dam into the Guadalupe River was clear and cold. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips near Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Updated Tuesday April 25, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release is unchanged. The flow is clear and cold at 55 degrees at the tailrace. Short scouting trip near Action Angler showed the usual players in their habitat. The trout were continuing to hold on, and the sunfish and bass were most active. Small yellow poppers were the best flies of the morning. There wasn't anybody else on the water and the conditions were overcast with a cool northeast breeze. We didn't see a hatch, but it could have happened in the afternoon. Our company provides guided fishing trips on the rivers, lakes and streams near New Braunfels, Austin, and San Antonio Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Saturday April 29, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was clear and cold at 56 degrees at the tailrace. The morning started off cool with gusty winds that remained most of the day. The high temp was 68 degrees and there were clear blue skies after the cold front passage. There was a bad storm yesterday evening with heavy rain and hail. The river was clear this morning though. There were very few fishermen out, but there were a couple of guides with clients struggling in the high winds. We rescheduled our trips for better conditions because the clients were able to. We didn't see a hatch, but the high winds could have blown the bugs away.

Devils River Fly Fishing Report and Current Conditions: May 2nd thru May 5th, 2023. The river flow was low but very fishable. The weather was nice with daytime temps in the high 70's and low 80's. Helena Agri Inc booked 4 of their guys to fish with us. Helena is a wordlwide leader in agriculture. We caught and released too many bas to count and the weather was awesome. We fire grilled our meals and had shore lunches on the banks of the river. The special fly was the game changer and it slayed the fish!

 

Canyon Lake and Guadalupe River Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Tuesday May 30, 2023. Guadalupe River Flow was 70 cfs with clear water conditions. Eli Lerma and his family joined us from Midland, TX and they were smart about learning to fly fish. They listened carefully to their guide/instructor. We caught and released quite a few fish, but nothing was large. The weather was nice and there was nobody else on the river.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Friday June 2, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 72 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. We had a two boat trip with the Harder family from New Braunfels. They all picked up fly fishing rapidly after a brief lesson. We caught and released quite a few fish caught on fly. Our best fly was the Game Changer. The weather was nice and the temps reached 82 degrees, which is cool for this time of year.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Fishing Report and Conditions: Updated Tuesday June 6, 2023. Half day fly fishing lesson/rafting float with Ignacio and Richard from San Antonio produced two new fly fishers. The Canyon Lake Dam release was 72 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. These guys were smart and listened carefully to the guide. They caught on with fly casting quite quickly. We caught and released sunfish and largemouth bass and a couple of smallmouth too. The weather was nice with temps in the 60's to begin; and only the low 80's in the afternoon.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Report and Conditions: Updated Saturday June 10, 2023. Lorenzo Chavez and his son and daughter joined us for a two hour fly fishing lesson on the banks of the Guadalupe River near Austin and San Antonio. We provided the equipment. They learned three different casts, fly selection, reading the water and more. The release rate from Canyon Lake Dam was 73 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The weather was nice and cool in the morning with temps in the 70's. We didn't see a big fly hatch, but it could have happened later in the day.  

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Updated Saturday June 11, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 72 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The river was pretty crowded with tubers in the afternoon. The weather was nice with temps in the lower 90's F.  The lake was busy as well, because the weekend crowds strained the infrastructure. We saw Caddis, Mayflies and Damsels hatching on the river before noon.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Updated Monday June 12, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 73 cfs with cold water conditions. We didn't see a major hatch today but we saw some caddis, Blue Damsels and Grass Hoppers on the surface in the Guadalupe River. The weather was nice in the morning but it heated up in the afternoon. We got off the water before it became too hot. We caught and released several bass, sunfish, carp and others.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Report and Conditions: Updated Tuesday June 13, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 73 cfs with clear water conditions. The morning was quiet with nobody else on our stretch of the river. Wes joined us for a morning float on the Guadalupe. He caught and released lots of fish and we had a pleasant weather window, despite a really hot forcast. Our company offers guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the rivers, lakes and streams near Austin, San Antonio, and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current report and Conditions: Updated Wednesday June 14, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 73 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The Guadalupe River upstream of New Braunfels was not crowded at all today. In fact, there were very few people other than us. The weather started off cool with solid overcast and temps in the mid 70's. The afternoon warmed to the mid 90's though. On our scouting trip we caught and released tons of sunfish, small bass and catfish too...on flies.Expedition Outfitters offers guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction near Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels Texas too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Thursday June 15, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 73 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake was not crowded and we didn't see any fishers at all. Our scouting trip revealed a nice Trico hatch and Damsels with Caddis too. We got some topwater action on poppers and we got some action on streamers too. We offer guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes, and Streams in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels Texas area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Updated Friday June 16, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 73 cfs with clear and cold water conditions at the tailrace. The weather was nice this morning at 7:00 am when we met. The sky was overcast with temps in the high 70's. We saw some small mayflies and Caddis hatching, there were Blue Damsels too. There was nobody else fishing and we had the river to ourselves. That said, we caught and released quite a few fish; but nothing was large. Our best fly was the Pat's Rubber legs under a popper. Expedition Outfitters offers guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, lakes and streams near Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels Texas too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions. Monday June 19, 2023. Canyon lake Dam release was 73 cfs at 56 degrees F. outflow at the tailrace. We scouted 10.5 miles below the dam and found warmwater fishes receptive. We saw Damsels, Dragons and Mayflies hatching this morning with Caddis too. We were most successful on streamer patterns stripped really fast. Expedition Outfitters offers guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction near Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Updated Tuesday June 20, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 73 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The day was overcast in the morning and cleared to reveal clear blue skies. We scouted and produced several nice bass on fly. The river was not crowded in the morning and it was fun!

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Conditions and Report: Wednesday June 21, 2023. The Guadalupe River release was 73 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. We scouted about 10.5 miles down from the dam and found an early morning Trico hatch with Caddis, and Blue Damsels too. There was nobody else on the river in the morning. We caught and released a few fish with a 3 lb bass being the largest. There were very few people out in the early part of the day and it was very pleasant. We offer guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes and streams in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels Texas area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Report and Conditions: Updated Friday June 23, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 73 cfs with clear and cold water into the Guadalupe River. The morning was great with nobody else on the river. We had a good 3 mile float while scouting for target rich areas. We didn't see a big hatch, but we saw Blue Damsels, Red Damsels and Caddis with some tiny Mayflies too. Our best fly for scouting was the olive Wooly Bugger with a bead head. Our company offers guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers near Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides near Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels, Texas.... Current Fishing Report and Conditions: Updated Sunday June 25, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 73 cfs with clear and cold water conditions at the tailrace. The day started off pretty nice with temps in the low 70's F. It quickly turned hot after the clouds burned off. We got a nice scouting trip in with several bass caught and released. The Game Changer was our best fly. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction in the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes, and streams in the Austin area, San Antonio area and New Braunfels Texas too!

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Fishing Conditions: Updated Wednesday June 28, 2023. Outflow from Canyon Lake Dam into the Guadalupe River was 72 cfs, The water temp at the tailrace was 58 degrees F. with clear water conditions. We didn't see a big hatch today on the Guadalupe River, but we saw stripers busting bait on the surface at Canyon Lake. We're going to launch the powerboat in the morning and give them hell! Expedition Outfitters and Fly Fishing Texas offer guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes, and Streams near San Antonio, Austin, and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Updated Thursday June 29, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 72 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The day day started off clear and a few clouds appeared in the mid morning. The temp was 78 degrees F at 8:00 am. We didn't see a big insect hatch on the Guadalupe, but there were very few people out, and no fishermen. We stripped some streamers for a sample and we caught several small largemouth. We also got some topwater action on the river with poppers. The water was relatively clear with a green tint. Expedition Outfitters and Fly Fishing Texas provide guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes and Streams near Austin, San Antonio, and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Friday June 30, 2023. Morning trip with Bob and Roslynn from Houston produced two new fly fishers. The morning started off overcast and relatively cool for a summer day in Texas. The temps were mid 70's and low 80's on the river. The release from Canyon Lake Dam was 72 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. We didn't see a hatch of insects, but it could have happened later in the day. We caught and released some sunfish and small bass bit our flies. It was pretty slow on the catching...but the fishing was great. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips on the Texas Hill Country Rivers near Austin, San Antonio, and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Fishing Report and Conditions: Updated Sunday July 2, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 72 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The river was deserted until 9:00 am when the first tubing group showed up at the third crossing. They were very polite and well behaved. The day started out relatively cool with light rain showers and overcast skies. It was actually very pleasant. We didn't bother scouting for fish because we expected an afternoon crowd. and we were not disappointed. Expedition Outfitters offers guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes and Streams in the Austin area, New Braunfels area, and San Antonio area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Updated Monday July 3, 2023. The biggest part of the crowds are gone, but there's quite few people enjoying the river and lake. The release from Canyon Lake Dam was 72 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. It was hard to tell if there was an insect hatch on the river. But we did see a few straggler Caddis, Damsels and Hexagenias around. The tubers made it difficult to do trips, so we scheduled them after they leave this week. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes, and Streams in the Austin area, New Braunfels area, and San Antonio area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Updated Wednesday July 5, 2023. Outflow from Canyon Lake was 73 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The crowds have left and the river and lake are back to normal. The weather has been cooler the past couple of days and the humidity has been lower too. We saw mayflies and Damsels, and Hoppers out today. The day was overcast early and it cleared and warmed to the mid 90's in the afternoon. There were no other fishers on our part of the river. Tomorrow we're headed to Canyon Lake to scout. Our company offers guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes, and Streams in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels, Texas area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Report and Conditions: Thursday July 6, 2023. The day started off clear and by noon we had some scattered showers, It was enough to make things less comfortable but the temps were in the low 80's F. We scouted Canyon Lake and we found some nice bass. The lake was not crowded, thank goodness. The day cleared out about 2:00 pm with no more showers. We saw some stripers busting bait on the surface but they spooked when we got closer. We got some nice largemouth on flies though. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels Texas area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Fishing Report and Conditions: Friday July 14, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 77cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The people started to arrive for the weekend about 11:00 am on Friday. We're just past the peak of human activity post July 4th. This is important, because the fishing gets better as the tourist population recedes. The lake is more manageable and the river is fishable without tubers everywhere. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes,and streams in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Monday July 17, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 77 cfs with clear and cold water conditions from the bottom of Canyon Lake. We saw several insect species hatching on the lower Guadalupe near the third crossing. We saw Damsels, Caddis, Tricos and BWO's at times. The bugs are in the river. Canyon Lake was not really crowded today and weekdays are preferred. We saw some stripers boiling on top around 7:00 am this morning near the dam. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction in The Texas Hill Country, Devils River, Pecos River and Austin and San Antonio too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Wednesday July 19, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 77 cfs with clear and cold water conditions from the bottom of the tailrace. The day started out clear with no clouds and temps in the high 70's. There were very few people out this morning and it looks like we're past the peak of high tourist season. That's good news, because we'll get the lake and river back to non crowded conditions. We didn't see a prolific hatch on the lower river, but we did see caddis, tricos and damsels. Canyon Lake was clear and blue with small chop less than a foot. The wakeboard boats came out at noon, but the traffic was light. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes, and streams in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Updated Thursday July 20, 2023. The release from Canyon Lake Dam was 77.1 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The day started off with temps in the high 70's and reached over 90 degrees in the afternoon. This is why we've been doing morning trips only. The lake was not crowded and the river had nobody on it, except for a handful of early tubers. We didn't see any major hatches but we saw grasshoppers, some caddis, and Damsels too. The lake had some "buck" bass busting the surface in the morning. There were a couple of schools of stripers busting bait in the early morning near the dam. Expedition Outfitters offers guided fly fishing trips on the Texas Hill Country Rivers near Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Fishing Conditions: Friday August 4, 2023. Canyon Lake was pretty much deserted this morning with only a hand full of fishing boats. That will change this afternoon as the out-of-towners arrive. The weather was nice this morning with clear blue skies with temps in the 70's. The water in the Lake was very clear and had a blue green tint. The Guadalupe River was uncrowded today with nice flows and cold water below Canyon Dam. We didn't see any big hatches, but we spotted some bugs being devoured by small bass and sunfish. Expedition Outfitters offers guided fly fishing trips in the Texas Hill Country close to Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels Texas. 

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Conditions: Monday August 7, 2023. Morning scouting trip to Canyon Lake revealed slightly lowered water conditions, but still in 70 percentile range. The boat traffic is way down since the schools are about to start up again. The Guadalupe below Canyon Lake is flowing at 77 cfs with cold and clear temps at the tailrace. We saw some Dragon flies and Caddis and Damsel flies too on the river. We didn't see any other fishers in the morning, but we only saw a 3 mile stretch below the dam. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction in the Austin Texas area, San Antonio Texas area, and New Braunfels Texas area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Fishing Report and Conditions: Updated Tuesday August 8, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 112 cfs, with clear and cold water conditions. The Lake was not crowded in the morning and a few boats showed up in the afternoon. The day started off cool with temps in the high 70's and low humidity. The water level is about 70 percent capacity. There are black bass schooling on the points and peninsulas, and the weedbeds are holding good fish too. The Guadalupe river is flowing cold and relatively clear with almost nobody out today. We didn't see any insects hatching, but we probably had bad timing. We saw two fly fishermen catching, and releasing some nice largemouth on fly near Lazy L and L. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Hill Country Rivers, Lakes and streams in the Austin vicinity, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels Texas too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Fishing Report and Conditions: Updated Wednesday August 9, 2023. Canyon Lake Dam release was 117 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. Canyon Lake is still in the 70% range for capacity. The water is still clear with a thermocline about 12 feet down at the intersection of colder water temps in the 60's and high 50's at depth. There were very few boats on the Lake today and more fishermen than jet skiers. We heard good reports of largemouth bass being caught on the hydrilla vegetation areas of the lake. The Guadalupe River below Canyon Dam was uncrowded, but we saw a few kayakers on the slightly higher river flows at 117 cfs. We didn't see any fly fishers out, but we saw some good hopper takes and rises to Dragon flies and Damsels too. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels Texas area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guide and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guide Current Fishing Report and Conditions: Updated Saturday August 12, 2023. Canyon Lake is still near 70% capacity and the water is clear with hungry fish. We saw lots of bass attacking topwater patterns cast among weed beds and rocky shorelines. The boat traffic has been way down, since it's back to school time...yea! The Guadalupe River Flow downstream of Canyon Dam was clear and cold and flowing well at 112 cfs. We didn't get a chance to wet a line but, we saw grasshoppers clobbered on the surface and lots of Caddis, Damsels, and Dragon flies. Expedition Outfitters provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction near Austin, San Antonio, and New Braunfels Texas.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Fishing Report and Current Conditions: Updated Sunday August 13, 2023. Canyon Lake was not very crowded as we get back to school, so to speak. The morning started off cool with temps in the 70's and overcast skies. The clouds broke up, for the most part around 10:30 am. We saw stripers busting bait on the surface as we were headed toward the mouth of the river to target largemouth. We were not disappointed. We got several fish on Game Changers and Clousers. The Guadalupe River was deserted by mid afternoon, because the tourists were headed home. We saw a couple of Fly Fishers at Lazy L and L, and they said they had good luck on bass. Our company provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Contry Rivers, Lakes and streams in the Austin area, San Antonio area, and New Braunfels area too.

Canyon Lake Fishing Guides and Guadalupe River Fly Fishing Guides Current Report and Fishing Conditions: Updated Tuesday September 19, 2023. The Guadalupe River flow downstream of Canyon Lake was 115 cfs with clear and cold water conditions. The morning was cool with temps in the upper 60's with clear blue skies. We didn't see any other fishermen on the water, but we had a good scouting trip. We caight and released several nice largemouth bass on streamers and some sunfish too. We saw a Trico hatch, but just minnows and small fish were eating the tiny bugs. Our company provides guided fly fishing trips, classes, lessons, and instruction on the Texas Hill Country Rivers, Lakes and streams near Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels Texas.