I'll be heading to the river Sunday morning. They did their first trout stocking yesterday, so it may be a little crowded. It'll be the first trip in the new kayak, so I'm pumped.

Bring the camera. Want to get a picture of fresh slime on the new ride.

Looking forward to a full report!

Never fished the brazos but have heard its awesome. Where do you put in/take out at if you want to fish below PK?

Dan

Hwy 16 Bridge below the dam.

Good luck Josh

Thanks Josh! I looked at it on google earth. Is there parking? Is the water flow generally low enough that you can paddle down river and be able to paddle back up against the current? Sorry for the multiple questions...I'm new at kayak fishing but am in big time after only a few local trips. Thanks again.

Dan

Yeah, there's ok parking there along 16. I haven't checked river flows, but it shouldn't be kicking. It's an awesome paddle, and one of my favorite places because of the scenery.

The PK tailrace is always a fun place to go but is always crowded. If you are just looking to get some trout look at Fort Richardson state park in Jacksboro. I dont know if you can even get a yak on the water but everytime I have gone I had the whole pond to myself and the trout were vicious!

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Hurt feelings? We have hurt feelings reports you can fill out here at my work.

You want any company? I've been trying to catch those rainbow colored bass steroids all week at my local pond with my fly rod. I was already kind of planning a trip out there for them anyway.

The trout they stock are pretty tiny. I have caught a bunch down at the brazos. The striper do love to eat them though

Are you going to do any BASS fishing? I'm going next week and want to get into the Smallies.

Todd and I will be out there for most of the day, so I plan on bringing stuff for bass and stripers as well.

Dave, I know they're not the biggest trout, but the scenery makes up for it.

For sure. You might as well try for some striper while your down there. I have caught a few decent ones in the winter months there.

Take some small trout swimbaits

A guy at my local pond pulled two 14 inch trout out this week. That isn't big but compared to the 10 inch they stocked last year it isn't bad. I think last year they stocked a few 20 inch at LLELA and some of the other places. I have'nt heard reports on the size they stocked. Now a 20 inch trout on a #22 hook would be nice.

Todd an I rolled out this morning from my apartment with an ETA for Hwy 16 bridge around 9. We pulled up and expected the worse, but were greeted with this:

No one on this side of the bridge and just two on the other side. I was surprised.

We unloaded the yaks for absolutely no reason because we ended up fishing next to the bridge the whole time. I probably caught a dozen or so trout keeping just the "big" ones. The working pattern was an Olive Zebra Midge.

Nice job guys. I really like that last picture too Josh.

Man that looks like fun. Those pics are all nice but that bottom pic is really good.
I need to finally take up fly fishing

Looks awesome guys...

Can't wait to try the Brazos out someday soon.

Good job guys!!

Nice Josh looks like a good time

I finally bought a fly rod to learn the new art of fly fishi ng and became an instant addict. I'm sure I would be holarious to see with my greenhorn style but first time to the Blue River caught several trout and was the lone fisherman to pull out a spotted bass on the fly. All the 'pro's' around me were surprised and jealous (and extremely nice and willing to teach the novice a thing or too....)

Nice snaps Neumie, thanks for sharing.

A video from this weekend. Apparently, I say "There we go" every time I hook up.

http://youtu.be/EItcLnRLXlA

My buddy and I were fishing right across the bridge from you guys - I was the dude in the black truck talking to y'all about not leaving fish to find fish and asking how y'all liked that Ascend boat.

Anyway, everytime I heard 'there we go' I knew I didn't have the right fly on! Thanks for the zebra midge tip. At the end of the day, we did okay on a white bugger, as well. Like you were saying earlier, the trout aren't huge out there, but man, that place is beautiful. The weather kept the crowd down, too - it was a great day to be out there.

Hey man, glad to see you're on here. I never realized I said "there we go" that often until I saw the footage, I'm going to have to work on that.

I had started day tossing a white adams fly since they were rising pretty good, but they wanted nothing to do with that. I've had good luck in the past with the olive zebra midge and it was the ticket again on Sunday. My friend Todd caught a few on a prince nymph as well.

Conditions like Sunday are my favorite days to hit the Brazos during the winter. Y'all make it out there often? I may be making a return trip this weekend if I get my Christmas shopping finished.

Could yall see the trout swimming in that area?

This is the first I've been out there since springtime, but I try to make it out there a few times a season.

I've been thinking about paddling down a bit and fishing next time, but who knows...you certainly didn't have to go too far this weekend.

FZ - where I was at, I couldn't see them to sightcast at them or anything, but early in the day they were rising really well, and you could see them then, obviously.

Video turned out good. I'll post mine when ever I get time to edit. I think that was the best spot on the river. People kept inching up toward us and as soon as I started walking off a guy asked if I was finished. Then he jumpd into my spot.

Bassplastic-Nice to meet you. Glad ya'll ended up doing ok