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 Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
[Re: Jerry47]
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10/29/13 10:50 PM
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In about 10 or 12 weeks I'll be down there giving it well!....Should still be full and cleared up!
Just one more cast!
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
[Re: Jimbo]
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10/29/13 11:39 PM
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wrknonit
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Save me a spot Jimbo, I'm on the way! 
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
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10/30/13 02:03 AM
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I think the bass fishing is gonna be tough for awhile. Too few fish scattered in way too much brush. Let em get a good spawn under their belts, and if the lake stays up at a decent level watch out.
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
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10/30/13 03:52 AM
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Lake Corpus is about a half of foot from being full. The catfishing should be great with all the fresh water flowing into the lake, i'm praying that i can be down that way in a couple of weeks.
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
[Re: Jerry47]
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10/30/13 01:45 PM
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Jimbo
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As for how the fishing will be?....There is only one way to find out!
I'll be giving it a shot right after deer season!
Just one more cast!
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
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10/31/13 02:58 AM
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With all the fracking going on down there, plus all the lawn watering in CC it won't take long to start dropping!
Five feet is a lot of water still, and if it's slowed we still need rains to keep it up.
Just hoping it holds enough to allow fishing this spring. There was still a lot of fish left in the lake, and they will still swim upstream to spawn. Any idea who, if any, exploration companies are pulling from Mathis? Or how many barrels they are permitted to pull? Most water sources for fracking comes from either earthen pit on landowner or adjacent landowner properties or water wells drilled on location. Transferring water is very costly, and it only goes up when trucking is involved. Like you said, transferring water is costly, so just figuring that the Nueces runs through pretty much the heart of the oil producing zone, it would just be easy to pump it straight out of the river rather than drilling wells or trucking it in. Even the drilling of wells is going to suck dry any springs that may have flowed in the past you would think. Wont say it cant happen, but it likely will not. First of all they would have to be permitted to do so, and only allocated so many barrels (normal one hole frac is approx 100k-125k bbls). Secondly, at .27c a ft/p/day for layflat hose and 1800-2800p/day rate on the pump, it adds up pretty quick Much cheaper to simply buy the water from a landowner. Pulling from lakes or rivers is a last resort (deep south texas ranches with no water sources) For instance, some companies are permitted to pull from the Rio Grande, but only during certain times of the year and usually restricted to 1000 acre feet, which most (if not all) never even come anywhere near close to pulling this much water. The biggest threat to lake mathis at this point is the moron in control of letting the water out in fears of the weak dam and feeding the shrimp. Feel sorry for the landowners there, they deserve waterfront for a change.
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
[Re: Jerry47]
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10/31/13 04:04 PM
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
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10/31/13 05:41 PM
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Well that's great news, hopefully Choke Canyon will be next. I still have plans on doing some camping and fishing at the state park in a few weeks. I haven't been to the state park since i was a teenager, and i'm wondering if it's a nice park and if they have campsites for a tent on the lake were i can fish from bank.
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
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10/31/13 06:48 PM
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Jimbo
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Just one more cast!
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
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10/31/13 08:44 PM
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
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11/01/13 02:55 AM
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Well that's great news, hopefully Choke Canyon will be next. I still have plans on doing some camping and fishing at the state park in a few weeks. I haven't been to the state park since i was a teenager, and i'm wondering if it's a nice park and if they have campsites for a tent on the lake were i can fish from bank. The park is really nice for camping. I was over there today to look around. Nice and clean and mowed, not many campers though. Lake is full and muddy and probably will be for a while. Not real good water clarity at any time. Corpus did sale frac water to an outfit in Three Rivers this year, probably Halliburton. The lake is a profit center for Corpus, the city proper gets most of it's water from Texana. When the lake gets below 74' which is the old damn level of 1938, the can't use that water any longer because it is below the flood gates. I live on the other side of the lake up Barbon creek. We haven't had any water in the creek for almost 3 years but it's full as we speak. Good luck.
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
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11/01/13 06:45 PM
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Re: Flooding on the Nueces River
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11/03/13 04:11 AM
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Thanks sandia, hopefully i will be there on the 13th of this month and try to catch me some catfish.
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