[carlb328]

So I moved to Texas recently because my boys live there now. It's already warm here and I wanted to get some exercise as well as an early fishing trip. I had heard of this park from a friend of mine when I lived here before, and web reports sounded good so I decided to drive the almost two hours to check it out. It turns out that there are two trailheads. The western trail has a pond which is stocked with fish, so I took that trail. It's basically a gravel road, only a mile, and quite flat. It's typical hill country hiking territory, with small trees, small hills, and smaller rivers. The river here is very low, so low it looks like it might run dry by summer. Anyways, I had a great time. It's fairly scenic, for Texas, and there are several species of fish here between the two ponds and the river there's plenty of places to explore, though the park is small by Washington standards. I didn't go up to the high point, apparently that is about another half mile from the pond. I had a few good bites there, but it took me all afternoon to finally land a fish- a small bass in the stream below the pond. Not much wildlife today, other than lots of fish the only creature besides birds I saw was a scared turtle.

[Kim Brown]

Send more trip reports to us. Esp. When you visit the Davis Mtns and Big Bend. My brother spent almost 2 weeks at Big Bend this past falI. I had to google this park location. Looks like a nice place.