Austin area parks at capacity

Well, wanted to get an afternoon of fishing in so I went to Mansfield dam (35 min from house) on Lake Travis - at capacity. I had no idea that was even an issue. Ok, so, went to the Lake Austin ramp at the Pennybacker bridge - chaos. Looks like folks have to park their rigs a mile away. Ok.. went to Decker lake - at capacity.

Is this common? I guess so on weekends.

At any rate, boats back in the garage and I'm mad as a hornet.

Yep. Looks like everybody got tired of being at home and bought a boat for entertainment.

I drove through Twin Coves park at Grapevine late this afternoon and it was a madhouse. Trucks and trailers parked along the roadside, in the grass, etc.

There must have been 30 boats staged around the ramp waiting to load. Added to that, a bunch of people were fishing on the only dock causing additional mayhem.

I guess you gotta go really early in the a.m.

I miss winter fishing already!

It has been pretty common place on every lake around here since this [censored] has started.

I'll be glad when all the non-essentials get back to work so I can take a day or three off and fish.

Houston county lake was overloaded today as well. They even started a little party out on the sand bar in front of the marina. Had to be 15 wake and ski boats tied down partying together. It is crazy!

Been like that Everyday for like 2 months.

This. Lewisville has been a madhouse also. It's always been crowded but never to the degree it is now days. Dangerous out there!

This is why I work weekends! Haven't been on a DFW area lake on a Saturday between Memorial day and Labor Day in years. This year the weekend is spilling over into the weekdays.

Fished through the winter until 2 weeks ago at Stillhouse. Madness. Pretty crazy even early mornings during the week. Boat's in the shop getting Line-X'd and serviced. Taking a few weeks off until it slacks off some.

Since the Covra 19 lock down every day seems like a Saturday!

Or put a down payment on one with their stimulus check, you think I'm kidding...

Well, learned that, at least for Travis County parks, they post capacity overages on their FB page. This weekend, every park hit capacity. Next time I'll check before leaving.

I stopped by North Texas Marine Thursday on my way to Texoma, was talking with the owner Joe Wallace, his boat inventory is depleted, a few weeks ago you could not have fit another boat in there, he told me he sold more boats in May alone than he sold in April, May, and June of last year.

When you can’t even get a pass for Decker, it’s time to head to the coast.

Yep, we got to Mansfield early (7:45) on Saturday and it wasn't that crowded. As the day went on the lake was crazy busy. When we pulled out at about 5pm there were some open spots in the parking lot, but they still had the entrance closed off like it was full.

Anybody been going to Decker during the week?

very common. I don't fish on the weekends in Austin during the summer. I take off a day during the week and usually fish

Ain't no one around at night 'cept a few other fishers.

Travis county parks are currently only letting about 25% of normal capacity in, and once they reach it they close the entrance for the rest of the day.

Pace Bend hit capacity somewhere between 10:30-11am Saturday.

LCRA parks (at least outside Travis County) and not enforcing the same rules. I went to Muleshoe Bend after getting off the lake Saturday as I was supposed to meet some friends to hang out for the afternoon and they couldn't get in Pace Bend. Parking at the ramp was all full when I got there at 11:30, but had no problem launching and boat traffic was pretty light up there