Wallpaper photo by Johnny Quiroz: Munoz in search of tarpon in the South Padre Island surf.

Welcome to Munozafa.com

  • We market custom fishing rods, custom flies, fly-fishing/casting instruction and rod building techniques. We also offer a variety of guided trips. 
  • Our goal is to provide you with great ideas, resources, products and services. We don't claim to know everything, but enough to do what we do.
  • Rates and details can be found on the SERVICES page.

UPDATES

  • We've started opening our new galleries from Alaska, Chile and Texas. Let us know what other images you may want to see from these places. Click GALLERIES in the menu above!
  • We've given our friends Chip Evans and Captain Kenny Smith their own pages. If you need custom flies or to be guided on the Lower Laguna Madre please visit these guy's pages.

 

 

Last updated September 22, 2008

Recently

On July 9, 2008 I treated my good friend Chip Evans to a guided float in my 16 foot Wenonah Aurora, canoe. We floated a secluded section of the Medina River, near the town of Bandera, for the carp on the fly. Chip had not experience carp in this manor much less the best case scenario of carp fly fishing in Texas. He had a banner day, landing a dozen hearty "golden bones". I mostly enjoyed spotting fish for Chip, then positioning and back paddling for each presentation and battle. Chip used his custom 5 weight Sage RPLxi and some micro-versions of his flying crawfish. Other carp were taken on damsel fly nymphs and bead-chain eye woolies.
Depending on the average size of the carp you seek one could use up to an 8 weight for carp over 10 lbs. We commonly use a 5 or 6 weight rods. Other flies I like to use are San Juan worms (red, brown, or chart.) and other small crayfish patterns. Trained carp will eat a replica of anything that they're accustomed to being fed. I've seen corn nibblet flies and even French fry flies ("French Flies?")
By coincidence the July 2008 issue of Fly Fisherman had a very good article by Dave Whitlock on fly fishing carp. These are great fish on a fly rod and I highly recommend pursuing them sometime.

PUBLICATIONS

   Last year we were honored when asked to contribute to 
the Dec 07 Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine 'Gift Guide'. 
We put together a beautiful 3 piece custom Sage casting 
rod to match a Shimano Curado 300DSV reel. We will post 
photos of that rod in the custom rod gallery as soon as 
possible. If you have this issue see page 42, gift item # 7.
                       

We would like to dedicate this web site to the memory of our friend

Gibbs Milliken (1935-2007).