Holdover Tournament Results
HOLDOVER TOURNAMENT RESULTS
RIO GUADALUPE
NOVEMBER 8 2025
The annual Holdover Tournament was a great success. There were 38 participants that caught the following fish:
Trout = 21 Bass = 8 Suckers & Carp = 20 Sunfish = 84
The Ron Skarbowski Memorial Award for the longest trout went to David Carrasco. David caught a 22” rainbow.
The 1st place winner was John “JC” Cadran. John caught 4 trout, several bass, sunfish, and suckers.
The 2nd place winner was Richard Kunz.
The 3rd place winner was Tony Lubrani.
The heaviest fish was a 14.6 lb. carp caught by Robert Carlen.
An 18″ smallmouth was also caught.
We want to give a special thank you to Judd Cole, owner of Rio Anglers Flies and Guides for coordinating the 8 guides who donated their time and expertise to help make this year a success.
Guides
Jud Cole = Rio Anglers Judson@rioanglers.com 512-940-5965
Alex Herrera = Herrera Fly Fishing herreraflyfishing@gmail.com 830-237-3937
Cody LaCroix LaCroix’s Fly Fishing cl.flyfish@gmail.com 210-837-6649
Daniel Hughes = Daniel Hughes Fly Fishing danielhughesflyfishing@gmail.com 210-744-1812
John Shank = Lonestar Fly Fishing lonestarflyfishing@yahoo.com 281-382-2871
Justin Crockett = The Texas Gillie jtcrockett@gmail.com Instagram:@thetexasgillie
Justin Janavaris = Fly Fishing Guadalupe River j.janavaris11@yahoo.com 817-917-8611
Paul Torrez = Grateful Angler gratefulangler11@gmail.com 806-577-6650
Trey Albaugh = Trey Albaugh Fly Fishing treyalbaugh25@gmail.com 832-341-0114
We also want to thank the 24 sponsors who donated prizes so that all the participants left with a nice prize whether they caught a fish or not.
Donor List
Ace Hardware J. Stockard
Action Angler Korkers
Adams Built Lamson
Brandi Wilson Art Living Waters Fly Shop
Brookshire Brothers Lone Star Fly Fishing
Cortland Line Company Orvis
Echo Real Ale
GRTU Reel Fly
Gruene Outfitters Rio Anglers
HEB Scientific Anglers
Hey Bear Fishing Umpqua
Horseshoe Grill WORD
We encourage you to support your local guides and sponsors. They all deserve your business.
Casting videos
If you’re new to fly fishing, mastering a few key casts makes all the difference. Start with the roll cast, a forward cast that doesn’t require a back cast. It’s ideal when trees or brush block your back cast or when you need to remove slack from your line. Simple, practical, and fun to learn, it’s the one cast every angler should know.
In this video, Master Casting Instructor Bruce Richards, who helped develop FFI’s Casting Instructor Certification Program (CICP), walks you step-by-step through how to roll cast like a pro.
Watch this and other helpful videos here (tinyurl.com/ffi-fly-casting), and consider pairing your online learning with in-person lessons from FFI Certified Casting Instructors.
FFI’s Fly Casting Education Program also offers videos, articles, casting events, and a global network of expert instructors to help you keep improving.
Fly Tying Class this Thursday the 13th
Our NBFF Fly tying session will be this Thursday from 6-8:00 pm at the Westside community Center, 2932 south IH 35 Frontage Road, New Braunfels. We will start promptly at 6:00 with a short skills building video and then watch a video of the fly we will be tying that night. This month we will be tying a fly called the “Walt’s Worm Nymph”. This should be a good fly for our upcoming Guad Trout season. Come out and learn or practice your fly-tying skills and possibly catch some fish on a fly that you tied yourself. You can tie some for yourself and tie a few for the monthly club fly raffle. The club will supply the needed materials and if you have your own tools, please bring them, but if you don’t the club has several sets for you to use. You can click and see the tying video attached below.
Hope to see you there,
Gary
Llano Canoes & Kayaks Retired
The owners have retired.
Contact them for any other info you might want