Long time reader/lurker but first time poster. I'm always looking for new waters to fish and I was curious what the wading/fishing is like downstream from the Hwy 180 bridge just west of Mineral Wells? Thanks, Paul

The wading is easy south of the bridge fairly shallow for quite a while with a couple of deep spots but an easy wade. As always watch your step and mind the fluctuating water levels. North of the bridge its tough. Haven't been able to wade too far north. Gets fairly deep just about the pumphouse or whatever that small building is sitting in the water river left.

And welcome to the board! Do you fly fish? Tell us a little about yourself...

Thanks for the reply, so what kind of fish might I run into south of the bridge?

Fly fishing is all I do now, my spinning rod hasn't been used in over 10 years. I was first exposed to fly fishing while going to college in PA 25+ years ago. I'll fish for anything, trout, sunfish, largemouth, smallmouth, hybrids, stripers and whites.

Sunfish and LMB mostly. Its the Brazos so there are carp and gar. May be seeing Sandbass in there now, and striper frequent the river but I haven't caught any as of yet.

I would also reccomend that you go up to the Dam below PK and give the fishing a try.

My dad did some post-doc work at PSU one summer in the late sixties, and was a regular at coffee break time with George Harvey. They know a thing or two about fly fishing in Pennsylvania.

Fish directly the dam during releases to catch sandbass and stripers. Trout fish wading and walking the bank downstream from there to a little ways below the bridge from now till the warm weather sets in.

Thanks for the replies, keep them coming if you have any more suggestions for that area. Whenever I head out to the Brazos, I always fish below the PK dam down to Garland Bend. But since it's another 40+ minutes from Mineral Wells to the Hwy 16 bridge, I've always been tempted to just pull over at the 180 bridge and give that stretch a try.

Doublehaul, I loved State College. I think PSU actually offered a fly fishing class but I never signed up for it.