Wallpaper photo by Johnny Quiroz: Mike in search of tarpon in the South Padre Island surf.
Welcome to Munozafa.com
Austin Canoe & Kayak Demo Days
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- 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.
- Normally rates and details can be found on the SERVICES page, although we are currently restructuring this section in coordination with our current freeze on availability. You can expect to see this section completed and our availability open by June, 2009. Thank you.
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 & 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.
- A future update will be to add recipies to the flies in our fly gallery. Until then, e-mail us questions if you would like more information.
Last updated February 16, 2009
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. A similar article by him can be found on Fly Fisherman's web site, http://www.flyfisherman.com/midwest/dwcarp/index1.html. These are great fish on a fly rod and I highly recommend pursuing them sometime.
News
There are Oscars in the San Marcos River!
[Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wishes to prevent the introduction of potentially harmful, non-indigenous fishes, shellfish and aquatic plants into freshwater and marine environments through education and regulations. This means that anglers are encouraged to remove non-indigenous fish from our Texas river whenever possible.]
...Our friend Ben Casarez picked up this little non-indigenous brute a few weeks ago on a popper. "It put up great fight for it's size. Much more than a sunfish." The fish was caught in a large pool just east of IH35.
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).