Anyone think there would be any problem launching a 24' bay boat at the 59 ramp and heading up towards the lake? Don't know what to expect with the river being low and don't want to make the trip if I cant get the boat in.

You can launch a boat that size at 59, but you'll have about a mile downriver towards the lake with some low water (1'-1.5') and pretty bad stumps.

Okay thanks, guess I'll just take it slow to watch of for the stumps.

I was just kidding about the shear pins, I have changed out a bunch of them. I once had a 7-hp sears that would not stay in gear, so I pulled out this little gear box thing and welded it into gear. No neutral or reverse, when it started it was in forward, so you had to be ready when you pulled that rope. Bad news on the 225hp Yamaha. I checked my water pressure gauge and a new gauge I bought today with a vacuum tester. I applied 5lbs with the tester and they both showed 4lbs, so I know the 0-lb reading while running is correct. Sure enough, it ran hot today after about 10-min. of running. I pulled the lower case again and hooked up an acid wash. It's been running for 4-hrs and does not look good. I have read where they let them run for 2 or 3 days, time will tell.

New thread name NUECES WHITES 2015/ BOAT REPAIRS!!!!! Come on fellas more reports about whites or any other game fish other than parts for a motor or boat!!

Hope this helps guys.Went yesterday with a buddy and got skunked. Chief Mike was dead on about green water past RV park on the left. We did not get to go any further down river because we did not have enough fuel,lesson learned. We saw 1 fish caught all day,dont know if this is true but we did have one boat with a couple of guys tell us they caught 30 whites much further down the river. They said we needed to go much further down till we saw all the boats fishing and green water. Well needless to say we did not make it that far because we did not have enough fuel to keep going. As mentioned by many of you guys already that straight away just past 59 bridge is pretty bad,submerged trees.We hit one on the way back and it broke the handle on my friends outboard. Saw one other larger boat hit one also.We were in a small flat bottom and still hit so be careful,hope this helps.

what road is that RV park off of. Im just looking on google earth to see if I went far enough down stream

Hey Matt E, The answer to your question depends on the draft of your boat. There are a few shallow spots on the straight away leaving the hwy 59 bridge heading toward the lake. I was there Friday. River level was low. Found a few spots that were 1.0 ft. to 1.50 ft. I see that the river level is up slightly from Friday. Watch for submerged trees. The first 3/4 to 1 mile is the worst. After that it gets deeper and is smoother sailing.
Josh Ray, Looking at Google Maps it looks like the road that the bridge goes over the river is F.M 151 & the road the R.V. park is on is F.M.336. Good luck !

The green water was about 2 miles past the camp on the left (about 10 miles downriver from the 59 bridge) and we didn't get into the fish until we hit about 12 miles from 59. Caught about 30 and kept 18. Threw back anything under 11", so probably would have had 25 keepers if we kept all legal fish. Probably could have limited out if we hit it hard, but got our limits last week, so we didn't spend a whole lot of time on the river today.

We were out there on Sat 1/17. The water was very choclatey!! We also got skunked. I ran into Josh Ray. Josh Ray, we were the 3 guys you and your Dad were talking to in the Alumacraft Center console. Sorry, it did not work out for you. I am hoping to make down again this weekend. I hope we will have a better experience. I did go down about 1/4 mile past the camp and found a little better looking water but still now dice. I wish i had gone further. Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes.

I was out on Sunday in my 18 foot bass buggy. Bumped a couple of times near the launch but no damage. Caught 10 keepers trolling near the mouth of the lake. My fish finder refused to start so i really couldn't map or find the schools. Still a good day.

"Hooah" I fixed my motor, the acid flush worked. I was able to go to 59 again Tues. I went south towards lake again. The water level 1st-trip 1.45, 2nd-trip 1.98 and this Tues 1.54. The water clarity had improved the first two miles, but was worse the next 5-miles, like the muddy water was moving south. I did not attempt to fish any until I found green water, which was 11-miles south of 59. I trolled with the big motor between mile 11 and 13 and was catching a few big ones, but mostly small males. At around 13-miles, a couple of friends in another boat, who had already been fishing a few hrs. said they had caught about 30 on rattle traps. I figured if the fish were there, I would be able to catch them on my SR5 and a couple of other favorites. I killed the big motor, dropped the trolling motor and started casting. Well I did not do so well, I swallowed my pride and got out some rattle traps. I still was not doing so well. I was catching some, but not putting a hurt on them. I did notice that most of the ones I caught were right at the boat, high in the water column. So I started to hold my rod at 11 o'clock and just did a slow retrieve. Bingo, I started catching them much better. It still wasn't real fast catching, you had to make a lot of cast for each one. We did not leave them biting, it had slowed down pretty good when we left at 5pm. We ended up with 33 good ones. Oh yeah, the wife caught one really nice crappie.

Nice report Ramm I've never caught any crappie on the river, if anyone has tips on catching crappie on the nueces I would appreciate the tips, We'll Be out on the river next thurs and Fri depending on fishing results and water clarity!

Nothing wrong with that water clarity in those photos, because that looks about normal for the Nueces.
Good report, nice catch!

Hey RAMM, If you get a chance can you pm me about how you do the acid flush. I have a 2008 Pathfinder with a 200 hp Yamaha that reads low water pressure at low speeds. at higher speeds it seems to be ok. So I would like to try this flush to see if it helps out any. Thanks!