North Texas

TEXAS FLY FISHING REPORT

Bass on the fly. Carp on the fly and how to catch them on Lake Ray Roberts Texas.

Monday Morning Sidewalk

How about that last week? It was a real vacation brought on by two sick days of … well, I still don’t know what it was. Could it be allergies? In our changing planet, maybe I am now allergic to something that was never around before? I am still a statue of snot today, and […]

Monday Morning Sidewalk

“And it’s half past four, and I’m shifting gears … we’ve got a thing that’s called radar love …” – Golden Earring 1973 – Good Monday morning sidewalkers! Is it hot enough for you? I guess we old fogies talk about the weather first, then go through our “Organ Recital,” where we recite what’s working […]

Monday Morning Rundown

Sweet faced carp on fly.

Monday Evening Sidewalk

“Ohh, Ohhh that smell. Can’t you smell that smell …?” – Lynyrd Skynyrd  Now the smell of new life surrounds us. Spring floods and spring green … then more floods … Good Monday Morning evening and welcome once again for the umpteenth time TO THE Monday Morning Sidewalk. I know this is too late to […]

Holy Carp! – on the Tuesday Tournament Roundup

Holy Carp! Houston, Texas, fly fishing tournament stop information.

esCARPment Carp Fly Fishing Results

esCARPment Central Texas Carp Tournament Phenomenal Success Here are the results for the esCARPment tournament for 2018 (not 2017)! FROM McLean Worsham: “Hi Shannon, Glad to share with you. This year, drought conditions and high winds made for challenging conditions. Despite that multiple anglers had phenomenal days with 732.5 total inches of carp caught by […]

Monday Morning Starting in Last Place Fading Fast

Holy Carp Tournament and Bass World Championships – Over and Done I Completely Missed Welcome to Your Monday Morning, or what’s left of it! Good Monday Morning! If you are a music lover, I am spinning Kandace Springs right now — what a sweet voice. There’s nothing quite like a young voice that you know […]

Fly Fishing Report Friday Festivus

Fishing Report Texas Fly Fishers Festivus Now Today’s Texas Fly Fishing Report will be in writing instead of appearing on YouTube. I don’t see any reason to beat the same drum with only slightly different conditions than we had in the past two to three weeks. CONDITIONS Weather. Weather. Weather. About the time I shout […]

Monday Morning Sidewalk Starts With Jury Duty

Have You Done Your Jury Duty? If you think you’re busy, well this comes to you from just before jury duty in Denton, Texas. I first thought about the possibility of sabotage – maybe put “Make America Great Again” at the top of some questionnaire, but I hear they don’t ask questions anymore. They just […]

Monday Morning Sidewalk Looking Back at Sunday and Beyond

This YouTube fly fishing video reminded me of the second video I ever uploaded to YouTube way back in 2008. SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS   Good morning! It’s another Monday morning sidewalk, and I am dragging! I forgot just what a workout it was to walk-and-wade the flats, but was reminded – by the windy walk we […]

Friday Texas Fly Fishing Report

Rain Gives Added Element to Texas Fly Fishing Conditions Skiff Technique and Advantages

Fly Fishing For Carp Rough Cut Drone Footage

North Texas drone video of carp on the fly early season 2017. Here’s a rough cut of yesterday’s action. If you are looking for a guided trip, LET ME KNOW! I am booking and hooking now! The drone video is 4K and the codec does not seem to be doing a good job at Google.

Backcasting 2016 – A Look Back at The Year of “Recovery”

Texas Fly Fishing Year in Review A Video Look Back at 2016 and Recovery

Monday Morning Sidewalk – The Dogs Are Still Hunting in North Texas

Carp Season Still On but Closing Fast Now in North Texas

Some Predictions DO Come True

Off the Hook Guide Day with a lot of Carp On The Hook

Texas Fly Fishing Report For Mother’s Day Weekend

Texas Fly Fishing Report for Mother’s Day Weekend

Lake Buchanan Fly Fishing Report – From Salas

Carp fly fishing on Lake Buchanan Texas

FRIDAY FISH FLASH!

Carp on the Flats Fish Flash July 2014

Things are Bigger in Michigan? Well … Some Things

Beaver Island Michigan carp on fly rod video

Denton Greenbelt Corridor Ownership

As readers realize, we are trying to focus, for the long term, on the Denton Greenbelt Debacle – a continuing log jam of the Trinity River waterway between Lake Ray Roberts and Lake Dallas, Texas. It is a learn-as-we-go process that has little hope of immediate progress, but with a little more clarity, perhaps we […]

Denton HWY380 Greenbelt Park Reopens

After six years, but who’s counting, the park portion of Denton Trinity Greenbelt at HWY 380 reopens.

Denton Greenbelt Update

The Denton Greenbelt Corridor is being worked on by TPWD, but bigger issues remain – waterway closed and no progress is made on that problem.

Just Call Me Kid Dyn-o-Miiite!

Sometimes the radical solution is the SOLUTION. Dynamite the log jams along the Trinity River. It’s economical and the fastest solution – here’s the reason

Denton 380 Greenbelt Update

A seat at the table. Solving the Trinity River Denton Greenbelt debacle: The City speaks, the studies start and hints of a radical solution.

Water Rescue on the Denton Greenbelt Corridor

Multiple agencies called in for water rescue along log-jammed Denton Trinity River Greenbelt – between FM428 and HWY380.

Monday Morning Hammer Drop

We make plans. God laughs. We make more plans. TPWF and quicksand go together, but which comes first?

Denton Greenbelt 380 Park Update

See what inaction and lack of planning by USACE and TPWD leads to at HWY 380 Denton Greenbelt Park.

Denton Greenbelt Alliance

A Look at the Organization While I am one of those people who tends to think I can do better than some people at subjects I actually put my mind to, time and age have … helped … me realize that there are some things I don’t want to put my mind to for lack […]

Denton Greenbelt Debacle 2020

Well, now we are opening a whole new can of worms, aren’t we? If you look back to yesterday’s post, you’ll see all the pitfalls I see in going down one of these roads. Yet, go we must. Straight into quicksand lined with land mines. If you are looking for more on the Denton Greenbelt […]