When in doubt, whip out the old pro – Joel Hays. I have been scanning the southern quadrants of Lake Ray Roberts this past week, and coming up short when it comes to carp down south – east and west. So today, Father’s Day, I got a text from Joel asking if I wanted to […]
Bass on the fly. Carp on the fly and how to catch them on Lake Ray Roberts Texas.
“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 […]
“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 […]
Denton Greenbelt Debacle at Highway 380 Park
Denton Greenbelt Park Trinity River at 380 goes underwater again because of years of mismanagement, and renders TPWD improvements damaged and useless.
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.
The Denton Greenbelt Corridor is being worked on by TPWD, but bigger issues remain – waterway closed and no progress is made on that problem.
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.
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 Debacle UPDATE
Denton Greenbelt Update. Response from the Greenbelt Alliance. Hedging our bets.
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 […]
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 […]
Trinity River Obstacle Debacle
USACE and TPWD Blow this one. No, literally, BLOW THIS ONE up! Trinity at Greenebelt 380 reroutes over park. Disaster for fly fishing in North Texas.
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Clouser Fly for Texas Saltwater fly fishing
Fly line mats for keeping fly line on boat decks keeping fly line on kayaks and drift boats. The ultimate
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