Thanks for the info guys.... just pulled Google maps and had a look. Is it possible to run your boat in there without ripping off your transducer or punching a hole in your hull? It looks bad!

Looks even worse in person. Parts you can drive safely and parts are idle only...

If they'd ever fix South Shore ramp you could run it fairly safely; but they don't.

Only fix for south shore is a bunch of water. The end of the ramp is high and dry.

They said that the sand had washed out from underneath it and it was basically hollow. Same thing started to happen at Calliham and they pumped some kind of expansive foam underneath it.


Last time I was there there was still water over the main lake ramp and the cove ramp was out of the water.

It was sure convenient when it was open.

TPWD currently has bids out to fix the ramp at South Shore.

Really?

Great!

water wells drilled and water piped via 4" poly into the tanks. Water is for sale for fracing, or for completions/production work.

This water is not produced water. It's fresh water, and it's for sale. When you open a well up, yes, the water is recoverable and treatable...almost clean enough to irrigate farms with, if not cleaner. Flowback water can be hauled off to SWD's and pumped downhole, but only permitted per well, per barrel, per day, and at a regulated pressure monitored by the TXRRC. Can the city of corpus elect to sell water out of choke directly? Typically, no, bc it's "on-channel"...but it can be permitted in special situations. But folks, you can frac 20 wells out of the lake before you surpass what is lost to evaporation daily.

I imagine the evaporation loss is huge. Sure do wish the lake were in a better recharge zone.


And Parttime, to answer your question. Most use minnows.

http://tpwd.texas.gov/business/bidops/current_bid_opportunities/construction/

Yep.

Thanks!

30 minutes less drive time!

Sure would be nice if the contract included extending the ramp like they did at Cassels-Boykin park on Sam Rayburn. They pushed pre made concrete lanes off the end of the existing ramp.

Went to Choke for the first time last weekend! Very nice park and nice facilities. The water is very low and parts near Mason's Point were almost completely choked out with weeds. We caught about 15 small catfish, the biggest was about 3 lbs. Saw some huge gators and had about 15 javelinas join us for breakfast. Also had a raccoon tear into out bait cooler and eat all our bait. All in all great trip although I wish the cats had been bigger.