Fish on your own. Guide prices are optional; check licence, permit and access requirements before going.
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- Guide, per angler
- $225–300
- Public access
- Limited
- Crowding
- High
Texas· Data built October 23, 2026
Texas trout water
Explore Texas winter trout: the Guadalupe River’s special trout zones below Canyon Dam, the tailraces below Possum Kingdom and Lewisville dams, the Frio, South Llano, Llano and other river stocking sites, and the state park lakes and community ponds TPWD stocks each winter, with public access, boat ramps and river gauges.
- Mapped waters / sites
- 101
- Nearby access facilities
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Texas's own data and can be out of date. Posted signs and landowners' wishes come first, and private land needs permission. The rules that apply are in the Texas fishing regulations (Outdoor Annual), and you need a valid fishing license.
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Guadalupe Zone 1 (slot limit)
Guadalupe Zone 2 (18-inch minimum)
River and tailrace stocking sites
Lakes and ponds stocked
Bold where the stream crosses public land; faint and dashed across private land. Gauges are measurement stations; a nearby gauge may be on a different stream.
Stream types · Texas
- Guadalupe Zone 1 (slot limit)
- Guadalupe Zone 2 (18-inch minimum)
- River and tailrace stocking sites
- Lakes and ponds stocked
- Public land
Bold where the stream crosses public land
Legend & map details
Guadalupe Zone 1 (slot limit)Guadalupe Zone 2 (18-inch minimum)River and tailrace stocking sitesLakes and ponds stockedNot public landPublic landFishing accessLaunchRiver gauge, conditions today: good fair poor no verdict; a group takes its worst gauge's colorRiver gauge, flow for the date: low below normal above high no reading
Fly fishing destinations in Texas · guide rates, best months and access
How to read this map
Layers, public land, access and sources
The Guadalupe zones are drawn on the USGS 3D Hydrography channel: Zone 1 from 800 yards below the Canyon Dam release to the east Hwy 306 bridge (slot limit), Zone 2 from there to the second River Road crossing (18-inch minimum, one trout). Both are artificial lures only.
Stocking sites come from TPWD’s winter trout schedule, which lists a site and a city but no coordinates. Each point is placed from an official source: a TPWD state park point, a dam in the National Inventory of Dams for tailraces, a TPWD river access lease, or the park’s outline in USGS PAD-US for city ponds. Sites that couldn’t be placed that way aren’t shown; the schedule has them all, with directions.
Most stockings run from late November into March, and many urban waters are fished out quickly. Neighborhood Fishin’ ponds are stocked about every two weeks. Statewide: 5 trout a day, no minimum length. Check the Outdoor Annual before fishing.
Highlighted banks adjoin mapped open-access public land, with a roughly 20-meter bank tolerance. Dimmed water has no adjacent open-access parcel recorded in this source. Neither determines legal entry, rights of way or permission to cross private land. Check signs, property rules and the current fishing regulations.
Access markers are source facility locations within about 800 meters of mapped water, not verified parking spaces or guaranteed entry to a particular reach. River-gauge readings describe the gauged location; a nearby gauge on another stream is shown as context.
Sources
- TPWD trout stocking schedule
- TPWD Guadalupe River trout regulations
- TPWD River Access and Conservation Areas (GIS)
- TPWD state parks and boat ramps (GIS)
- USGS 3D Hydrography Program flowlines
- Public land: USGS PAD-US 4.1, fee-owned parcels marked open access. Counties: US Census TIGERweb. Gauges: USGS Water Data APIs.
- Downloaded October 23, 2026; underlying observations and geometry can be older. Map tiles: OpenFreeMap and OpenStreetMap contributors.