Going to kayak and fly fish the stretch of the Brazos right below lake Whitney in early June. Any suggestions on gear to bring or specific flies to bring. Also what types of fish should i be targeting in June. Thanks for the help

Clousers, deceivers, double bunnys, deer hair poppers and what ever your favorite carp flies are and I would probably have some white woolys and some brown woolys.

_ Be prepared for LOTS of moss. It can get tedious. (But there is plenty of open water too.)
Tapered leaders not tied are important.

_ Also for bass - consider some large hookless poppers/topwaters. I know it sounds odd but
its really fun to just get the fish to blow up, and you can cover alot of water with out
spending tons of time clearing the lure. I found lots of big bass in the huge weed choked sections that are prevalent this time of year.

Think of it as scouting, and have a second rod ready, you'll get him.

_I bring a thin 40ft floating rope and just drag my boat while I wade. My fave technique on a warm day.
Almost all the river is 1 - 3 ft deep. (wading sure spooks the fish tho, that sucks)

- A few days ago a buddy out fished everybody with an orange dahlberg? diver

When are you going?

second weekend in june

I've had great success and great fun with foam frogs cast to structure and zipped noisily across the surface.

I've had good luck with a yellow muddler, and white foam spiders.

I had long heard nothing but good things about this stretch. We made a trip down there in the January. Ran into a local guy fly fishing and he said the drought and algea blooms have done a real number on that stretch vs years past. We came home empty handed, but did see some very large carp or buffalo. We even resorted to trying some live bait and we ran into some of gar with that. It's a very very pretty paddle though. Water clarity was excellent. Best of luck! I think Shane Davies guides this stretch.

I was there Memorial day

Lots of little fish last time there, but I only fished about half the day.. thunderstorms ran us off about 2:30pm.. I suspect if you fish more of the river than we do you can do much better. Deeper water seems to hold bigger fish..

I live on the river and fish it on a continual basis. Much depends on the depth of the water at the time. The COE hasn't been releasing water except on rare occasions, so most likely you're going to find the river very low. Hopefully you'll hit it on one of those rare times, but I wouldn't count on it.

So wear comfortable wading shoes because you are going to be doing a lot of walking. Wear a big brimmed hat and sunscreen cause you're going to get a lot of sun. Carry a lot of water.

The all time all around champion fly for the Brazos below Whitney is the woolybooger. That doesn't mean it will catch fish every day, but it will catch more fish more often than anything. Dark colors usually work best.

Next best are hellgramite imitators. After that are clousers, and after that are terrestrials. Small soft plastics on a No. 8 hook can work really well too, if you don't have any qualms about using them. Crappie tube jigs, Gulp 1" minnows (never had any thing bite the larger gulp minnows), little grubs with the twisty tails - these can work wonders on the fish.

When the water is low the best place to find fish are in the deeper holes. By deep I'm talking about waist deep - or if you can find them, even deeper - but most are going to be waist deep or so. Holes with overhanging trees or some other shade are the prime spots. Any deep spot in shade is where you want to try. The moss is already getting nasty thick in places and sometimes you can catch fish out of moss beds by tossing a small popper or other dry/floating type fly into open areas surrounded by moss. It depends a lot on time of day, etc - but a floating fly will stay out of the moss more so you'll have some added opportunities.

Hope you have a great day fishing and that you'll report back on how it went and what worked and didn't work for you!