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Floods Continue on Local Lakes Welcome to North Texas in Summer! In case you were wondering where I disappeared to, it was back home again to South Texas and the still normal, level tidal Lower Laguna Madre that only closes for hurricanes and even then, barely at all. I’m starting to have a chip on my bony shoulders. Whether you know it or not, Lake Ray Roberts is shut DOWN. I was driving…

What We Have Here Monday mornings make a pretty long and strong string when I do my best to put about fifty of them a year together here on the Monday Morning Sidewalk. Some of them are better and some of them are worse than others. In the end, they are just a string. The Reckoning  I have arrived at a place, literally a geographic “place” where the lake in my backyard has gone stale. Or maybe…

Weather Pattern Takes a Turn for the Wetter (AGAIN!) How about a swirl of a Pacific hurricane passing over some of Texas? These are the strange days, aren’t they? Cold in the east, a Baja bound Pacific hurricane that holds together long enough to cross Texas … stay tuned, and be sure to watch/listen on YouTube at MaxVelocity. This kind of weather reporting IS the future of weather reporting.…

August Cold Front … In Texas? I have called the new Texas weather patterns predictable, that is predictably unpredictable. We’re not talking the old saying, “If you don’t like the weather in Texas, wait a minute …” unpredictable. We’re talking fire and rain unpredictable. And now that I have lobbed the first round, more like a slow moving black powder ball, we have further evidence of this…

PUBLISHER NOTE: This post is a ChatGPT story I generated earlier this week. Some of it is timed point-blank, and some of it looks ahead. There are going to be more of these informational “Fly Chats” that I hope will help you find fish, and social activities to plug yourself into! We could all use a little “plugging-in” these days, right? What’s Trending Among Texas Fly Fishers 1. Digital…

Yes, But … I thought it would be interesting to spend a little time in our heads, and out of our bodies this morning. Even though this is another “Wholistic Wednesday,” I wanted to test Chat’s ability to find the nuances we have already found – and those of you who are new to fly fishing will come to find – on “traveling 300-miles to a river to fly fish,” and arriving at out destination. I…

It’s a protracted day now. The brutal beatings from the sun and humidity kick in around 11am. and they are ruthless. I live in extremes, a land of extremes, and they are not limited to US political extremes. They reach into the air we breathe and the weather we have created. The seasons are extremely wet, or extremely dry, extremely hot and extremely cold. To do what I do here? it’s becoming more…