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USACE Fort Worth Texas Responds

Chandler Sanford with our Lewisville Lake office asked that I respond to your email from earlier this year. The Trinity River corridor between Ray Roberts and Lewisville Lake is managed as an Environmentally Sensitive Area and is designed to periodically contain flood waters as part of the Lewisville Lake and Ray Roberts flood risk management mission.  This large area of 3,124 acres north of HWY…

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Thor's Day

Honoring the God of Thunder Today I used to be a treasure hunter.  My Grandparents would turn me loose to wander all over the dunes of South Padre Island, Texas, with a shovel and a poodle while they relaxed at the house and probably admired their own wisdom; “that’ll wear him out,” they probably thought. From the house set on sand at 3401 Gulf Boulevard I wandered far and wide digging holes…

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Friday Food For Thought

Denton Greenbelt Disaster in Slow Motion – Making Good Trouble Can’t you tell I’m frustrated by the lack of progress on the Denton Greenbelt Debacle? E mails to the local authority at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), based in Lewisville, Texas, are responded to in (seemingly) premeditated one-week intervals. I must ass-u-me that response time is normal for ALL Federal agencies, just to…

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Denton Greenbelt Debacle Update

While my motivation is nearing its all-time low, a place I left it not so long ago for sweet Texas Gulf Coast salt, I still have a duty to report what tidbits come my way. And believe me, they are tidbits. FROM Robbie Merritt TPWD Lake Ray Roberts “We did receive word recently that our Inland Fisheries partner’s Fish Passage Grant did not make the cut for this year’s Federal Grant program. …

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Pulling The Trigger

I remember the day we shot this video. The wind was a banshee just like it is today. But we were running up, way UP above Lake Ray Roberts on the Trinity River. Jeff had all the knowledge and experience to do this run that sometimes reminded me of the Bogart classic movie “The African Queen.” Today is the actual date this video was recorded, long before the South Padre Island adventures, an…

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Reeling in the Years Rolling Back the Tide

I am always amazed at how our english language borrows from one culture and uses it to capitalize in another one.  Good Monday Morning and welcome once again to the longest running fly fishing column about (okay, mostly about) fly fishing in the giant State of Texas. If you found me here, I appreciate your follow through – taking that next step to actually read the digital word as I pound it out…