NativeSon
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Jisgren-- I have never seen that map, but thanks for posting it. It does give one perspective.
Charlie
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Jisgren-- I have never seen that map, but thanks for posting it. It does give one perspective.
Charlie
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Bird
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It was about 45 years ago, when I had a 17' Ouachita aluminum canoe, that a cousin told me about what fun it was supposed to be to go down the Brazos below Possum Kingdom Lake. So he and I drove up there one day. There was a guy who would keep your vehicle until you got to the other end where another guy would let you use his phone to call, and the first guy would bring your vehicle to you (for a small fee, of course).
With our usual good luck, the river was way down, so we asked the guy if we could get down to the place we'd have to come out; quite some distance. I'll never forget him saying, "Well, like I told a guy yesterday . . . you can do it, but you ain't gonna like it." We had our fishing gear, ice chest, etc., and I had a 2 hp Johnson outboard motor I used on that canoe. So, like a couple of idiots, we decided to try it.
There were very few places deep enough to use the motor, some places we both had to get out and drag the canoe through mud, some places just one of us would get out and drag the canoe through shallow water while the other stayed in the canoe, and then came the time my goofy cousin pulled me and the canoe through shallow water, and as he came to deeper water, he just let the bow go between his legs from behind and he sat right on the front of the canoe as we drifted into deeper water. Naturally, he dumped us.
Fortunately, the motor was not running. I smoked a pipe in those days and had it in my mouth. The water at that point wasn't much more than waist deep, so I got on my feet pretty quickly, but he came up under the canoe and banged his head pretty good before he was able to start helping me retrieve our gear.
And nope, we weren't even drinking, so didn't even have that as an excuse for our ignorance.:laughing:
Western
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Bird, that is funny. I have floated the Brazos from where HWY 67 crosses outside Glen Rose, always fun fishing your way down. Dont know why you'd need a motor unless your headed up stream?
CowboyRon
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I used to bring the boys over there outside of Cleburne about every other year. We went there last year and the river was hardly flowing even though we had just had a good amount of rain. I asked the owner about this, and all he told me was it's been this way for years and his business was way down.
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Dennis, we had my little motor because I had no idea at all what kind of water depth and/or flowing speed we'd encounter. You know back then (I said about 45 years, but it was actually the Spring or early Summer of 1970 so only 44 years ago) they stocked trout below Possum Kingdom lake, so we'd hoped to do some fishing. However, we not only caught no fish, we didn't even get a strike or nibble that day. The guy, with whom we lift my truck, told us there was a deep hole downstream a ways and we might go down there and fish, then come back if we decided to not go on downstream any farther. I don't recall how far he said it was to that deep hole, but by the time we got to it, we knew we did not want to try to go back the way we came.
Ron, in later years (1979 or so) I sold that little 2 hp Johnson and bought a 15' bass boat with a 50 hp Johnson, and we had moved to the southwest corner of Dallas in 1977. So I used to like to go down U.S. 67, then S.H. 174 to the Kimball Bend bridge over the Brazos at the north end of Lake Whitney, and troll up and down the river for sandbass. But I haven't been down there since the mid-80s.
Ron, in later years (1979 or so) I sold that little 2 hp Johnson and bought a 15' bass boat with a 50 hp Johnson, and we had moved to the southwest corner of Dallas in 1977. So I used to like to go down U.S. 67, then S.H. 174 to the Kimball Bend bridge over the Brazos at the north end of Lake Whitney, and troll up and down the river for sandbass. But I haven't been down there since the mid-80s.
Western
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Only place I have caught trout on the Brazos was under the bridge and towards the PK dam and that was in the late 70's!
Ron, I bet I know exactly where you go, was a little canoe shop/store about 1 mile east of the bridge.
Ron, I bet I know exactly where you go, was a little canoe shop/store about 1 mile east of the bridge.
CowboyRon
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Yes, there are 2 of them there. I was told the river is down because of the recent water crisis. I'm guessing they are diverting water off of the river for the locals city water.
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Haven't seen the map before but have heard some of those facts.
Also some like how if Texas was hinged on the east at Toledo Bend and flipped over El Paso would be so many mails out into the Atlantic, how far Brownsville would be into Canada if the hinge was at the top of the panhandle and it was flipped north, etc.
Texas is a big state but every part of it feels like home to me.
I almost had tears well up when I was talking to a new Texan Sunday who was saying how it dawned on him that Texas was a special place and how he came to understand how Texans are proud of being "of Texas" not just 'from Texas'.
bindian
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Up aways from FM105 (and Millican) on the Brazos used to be an old mill. First canoe trip up there my ex step FIL and I hauled back all the 4x6 inch pieces of pertified wood the canoe could haul. By the time we got back again............it was all gone. I still have some 12-15 inch long pieces.
hugs, Brandi
hugs, Brandi
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Bird
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The only place I've caught fresh water trout was in once in Colorado in 1987 (only caught 2), in Idaho in 1992 (caught a half dozen one day), and in Alaska on several different years. And of course I've caught a few of 2 varieties of salt water trout around Port Aransas.
