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Saturday Morning Reruns

Classic original carp video from the Ray Roberts flats in the aughts.

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 […]

Goodbye to the Trinity River

I say goodbye to a River the Trinity River stretch from Ray Roberts to Lewisville Lake, as it is hopelessly caught in the bureaucratic swamp.

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.

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.

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.

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 […]