Has anyone tent camped at either Camp Mohawk or Quintana Beach county parks? Any evaluations or comments?

Quintana is directly on the beach at Freeport and the marshes accessable. Camp Mohawk is near Chocolate bay. Any recommendations on either as to which is best to enter cold as a kayak fisherman?

Thanks,

Paul

I live right by Camp Mohawk. The camp is on Chocolate Bayou. The bayou is a great place to go kayaking, especially upstream where the camp is located. The camp is upstream a few miles from the salt water barrier and if kayaking downstream to the bay, will require a short portage around the dam.

There is very little boat traffic until you get downstream then you have fishermen, skiers on weekends, and barges. If not too windy you can theoretically go all the way to San Luis Pass from Camp Mohawk. If windy, the bridge at 2004 is a good take out spot. Fishing around that bridge can be very good. I caught a buncha reds, flounders, trout, gafftop, and skipjacks last week there. As recently as two weeks ago I sighted a large school of very big tarpon working the channel and reefs just downstream of the bridge.

There are two marinas in Amsterdam (pretty far downstream) and nothing at all after that.

The bayou has a lot of tributaries, side channels, and other places to explore.

If camping out, kayaking or even hiking, bring some Brazoria County perfume (OFF!).

Just curious. Is that the old BSA Camp Mohawk of the 1960s?

Thanks for the analysis of the fishhing. It sounds pretty good.