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Braunig Reservoir - 2009 Survey Report

Prepared by John Dennis and Randy Myers
Inland Fisheries Division
District 1-D, San Antonio, Texas

This is the authors' summary from a 25-page report. For a copy of the complete report, use the download link in the sidebar.

Fish populations in Victor Braunig Reservoir were surveyed annually from 2006 to 2009 using electrofishing and in 2007, 2008, and 2010 using gill nets. This report summarizes the survey results and contains a management plan for the reservoir based on those findings.

Reservoir Description

Victor Braunig Reservoir is a 1,298-acre power plant cooling impoundment located on the southeast side of San Antonio, Texas. Water level is maintained at or near conservation pool by pumping from the San Antonio River. About half of the shoreline is considered rocky and the remainder natural. Aquatic plants, primarily bulrush, cattails, marine naiad, and sago pondweed, typically occupy about 5% of the reservoir.

Management History

Important sport fishes currently include red drum, palmetto bass, catfishes, and largemouth bass. Fingerling stockings have been conducted in most years since the mid-1970s to support palmetto bass and red drum fisheries. Angler harvest of palmetto bass, red drum, and catfishes has been managed under statewide length and daily bag limits, except that red drum do not have a maximum length limit. Largemouth bass have been intensively managed since the reservoir opened through stocking and special harvest regulations. Florida largemouth bass (FLMB) were first stocked in 1976 and were last stocked in 1987. Largemouth bass harvest regulations were changed from the statewide 10-inch minimum length limit (MLL), 10 fish daily bag limit (DBL) to a 21-inch MLL, 2-fish DBL in 1985. The harvest regulations were again changed in 1993 to an 18-inch MLL, 5-fish DBL. In 2004 and 2006-2008, City Public Service Energy (CPSE, the controlling authority) purchased and stocked sub-adult (6-9 inch) northern largemouth bass.

Fish Community

Management Strategies

Continue to stock red drum and palmetto bass annually, and evaluate effectiveness of sub-adult northern largemouth bass stockings. Consider changing largemouth bass harvest regulations to standard statewide restrictions.

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Performance Report as required by Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act Texas Federal Aid Project F-30-R-35 Statewide Freshwater Fisheries Monitoring and Management Program



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