Brazos River below PK damn trip
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:32 pm
So I finally got out and did a kayak camping/fishing trip except the fishing part was a bust. One nibble. Lots of carp jumping all day and all night. I decided to try and film the whole thing after taking a couple elk hunting trips out to Colorado and only having pictures to show for it. Just not the same as a video so I dove in and gave it a shot. My 1st mistake was not double checking battery charge on my GoPro's. One was at 20% and just basically gave me the intro shot. Then I used my other which had 100% but I'd put it in a waterproof case so the audio was complete garbage which led to me learning how to narrate and add in audio to the video during editing. Fun stuff. Here's the video link...
https://youtu.be/QwXHTpNGDaQ
It was fun and luckily a lot of my archery elk hunting backpack gear worked extremely well for this. Light weight and didn't take up much space. Happy to be able to get more use out of it than the 10 days a year out west.
The river has been low. 64cfs which Buddy at Rochelle's recommends at least 100cfs for a good float but with that low flow, it did make it pretty easy to paddle up river. My plan, since I got out so late Saturday, was to just go up a mile or so and camp on this sandbar I'd picked out but once I got there, there was already a group camping there so I headed back downstream to scope out a couple spots I noticed on the way up. Had 2 interesting visitors during the early morning hours. Hogs. One about 15' from me and the other about 30 yards. Didn't get them on video but I may bring my bow next time.
It sure was a nice, relaxing trip though. Hard to believe it's been this close to me (just under an hour drive from my house) and I'm only now exploring it. I do foresee many more trips there in the future.
On a side note, any fishing tips for that river would greatly be appreciated! I threw a LOT of stuff at it and tried a handful of different places with only 1 small nibble to show for it.
https://youtu.be/QwXHTpNGDaQ
It was fun and luckily a lot of my archery elk hunting backpack gear worked extremely well for this. Light weight and didn't take up much space. Happy to be able to get more use out of it than the 10 days a year out west.
The river has been low. 64cfs which Buddy at Rochelle's recommends at least 100cfs for a good float but with that low flow, it did make it pretty easy to paddle up river. My plan, since I got out so late Saturday, was to just go up a mile or so and camp on this sandbar I'd picked out but once I got there, there was already a group camping there so I headed back downstream to scope out a couple spots I noticed on the way up. Had 2 interesting visitors during the early morning hours. Hogs. One about 15' from me and the other about 30 yards. Didn't get them on video but I may bring my bow next time.
It sure was a nice, relaxing trip though. Hard to believe it's been this close to me (just under an hour drive from my house) and I'm only now exploring it. I do foresee many more trips there in the future.
On a side note, any fishing tips for that river would greatly be appreciated! I threw a LOT of stuff at it and tried a handful of different places with only 1 small nibble to show for it.