It's up for sale for a 131 million, 5700 total acres includes the lake and all water rights. Now we will see if state wants a do over considering the Fairfield mess.

If the state doesn't buy it, I will start crappy fishing and throw my bass on the bank from now on

If I win tonight…I’m gonna buy it.

I’d like to see the precise boundaries.
There are at least two private ranches that directly border the lake already.
Is the power company going to leave all those impressive, expensive looking structures behind?
I know they’ve already taken out and repurposed the turbines.

It would be nice to see the nature conservancy or another conservation org find a way to pony up the money to buy it and then sell to the state when the time is right politically or financially

Considering Texas has a record 32.7 billion in budget surplus ,yes billion, they could afford it now more than ever if they wanted to. That's what makes the Fairfield debacle that much more unexplainable.

I guess that was my point. Government seems to almost always move slower than a snail. So I hope someone can purchase it to “hold it” until someone, hopefully a public entity could buy it, so we could enjoy it.

The Texas government?

Here we go again another china lover thread .

I don’t read, write, or speak Chinese. Enjoy the thread. OBP2.

In before page 86.

Luminant/Vistra doesn’t own the lake or property. They sold it a couple of years ago and the turbines and generators were cut up for scrap.

get about a dozen together and squat on it till you can homestead it.

see how easy this is??

I figure the state will wind up with it no matter what given the mess @ Fairfield. No private investors will want to go down that road.

Dang it! Only $125mm short!!

I am closer to 131 million short ...

with all the folks that complained about the other lake that was bought out from under them that went like 130 pages should pony up an buy monticello before it gets away .

It’s Deja Vu all over again, same realtor, similar price tag and pushing water rights. I wonder why the power company didn’t invest in $5000 worth of Kinko signage like Todd did and go ahead ask for $418 million? I think the least we at TFF can do, is out bid the next snake oil salesman for the grand champion steer at the Titus county fair.

Is anyone taking bets on how bad TPW might screw this opportunity up?

https://hrcranch.com/brochure-download/52628/

but they cant keep you from launching from bridge, right?

This is not Fairfield but its an interesting area. The state does have a state park just a couple miles away on Bob Sandlin.
According to the listing the property has over a mile of shoreline on Bob Sandlin. It has 18 small lakes from just over an acre to 43 acres on the largest lake. No mineral rights but it does have several springs on the property.

I do not necessarily think the state will bid on this because of its remote location and the proximity to other similar and larger lakes close by.

The Monticello mines property are where TPWD has Lake X. The lake is/was using for experimenting with growing Sharelunkers. There were several “Professional” fishermen that got to fish the lake

Nice bit of knowledge. Too bad I'm even more short than the guys before me or I'd be all over it.

Well one thing is for certain. You guys either need to ask for your share of the however many billion surplus the state has, 32B, back in your pocket in the form of a tax return because they stole more money from you than they needed, or you need to demand that they purchase Monticello, call it the cypress springs sp expansion.