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 Capital of Texas Highway, and it’s called Lost Creek. My editing colleague Steve is the one who
Category: Fishing
Adventures with the Austin Fishing Team
Whenever I am out on Lady Bird Lake, dangling a pole in the water, or inflating the kayak before a long day of cooking in the sun and reeling in bass, there is always someone who comes up to me and asks, with a look of total amazement, “There are fish here?”
The Austin Fishing Team knows that there are fish everywhere. We have been exploring the ponds, creeks, and lakes of the Austin, TX area every week. We know which creeks have what fish. We know which Texas state parks have water this time of year.
And we would like to share our experiences with you.
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 it was a struggle to get a single bite and it got dark almost as soon
Austin Fishing Team takes a visit to Travis County Southeast Metropolitan Park to fish for panfish, catfish, perch, bass, and no small quantity of mud.
Fishing team’s trip to Port Aransas was a game-changing event. All this time we had sweated and labored to catch a few under-sized largemouth and sunfish hardly larger than our hand. But in the autumn waters of the Gulf of Mexico the fish are plentiful and willing. In fact the problem wasn’t catching the fish,
I’ve caught fish that were disgusting before, and I’ve caught fish covered in leeches. But this was the first fish that was visibly deformed. You can see that this sunfish has a kink in its tail, as if it had a piscine spina bifida. This one was caught on Barton Creek. Despite the mutation, it
You almost never hear of someone being excited about visiting Dallas. I however am an exception, because I wanted a chance to fish for gar in the Trinity River, just like the saint of Fishing Team, River Monsters’ Jeremy Wade. People talk about the Trinity River the same way shamanistic tribesman talk about the ritualistically
Fly fishing in the creeks around Wimberley Texas. Catching perch, sunfish, with some cichlid action.
The fishing team trio take their fly rods down to the Mueller development to find the elusive yellow perch.
Austin Fishing Team explores Shoal Creek from Cesar Chavez up to Ninth Street. We find cichlids, bass, warmouth, Mexican tetra, and one fast snake.
An afternoon urban assault ride through Waller Creek. Taking only our fly rods and our bikes, we plumb the depths of this cosmopolitan waterway.