Leakey - Concan - Uvalde - Vanderpool - Utopia

[CleverNickname 1,291]

Quince - Camp Wood

[CleverNickname 1,291]

Nueces Dam - below Wes Cooksey. The RV park was closed to day passes but the public access is fine. Also the kiddos were able to tube downstream in a ripple. Not my fat @ss.

[utee94 15,745]

On 8/2/2020 at 11:27 AM, CleverNickname said:

Not much flow. I think the tendency to congregate at the dam is higher in these conditions. My plan is to hit the gates at 8am and wear the kids out by 11. 

That's a good plan.  I was there for several weeks in July and the day-use folks are definitely later-arriving than in years past, even if they haven't been limited as much as I might have liked.

[CleverNickname 1,291]

Swim Hole - West Frio

 

[ousuxndallas 65]

The Frio sucks. Leakey especially. The Guadalupe is sooooo much better, not even close.

[CleverNickname 1,291]

Frio > Nueces > Guadalupe 

But Nueces is prettier and might be my favorite. 

[utee94 15,745]

They all suck.  All you jackwagons should definitely hit the Red River, it's awesome.  Be sure to stay on the north side.

[HenryJames 65,884]

Team Nueces

[GRHorn 105]

Went to Concan last weekend with some friends that are part of a larger group that go every year. River was low although it came up some after Friday night downpour. We would’ve tried floating but our group wasn’t really interested.  Use some local connections to hike around the river. Snapped a couple pics from the top of a cliff. 

 

[Steel Shank 9,411]

Staying at a cabin between Leakey and Concan. Sipping some Russell’s. Not thinking about football right now. Pics from earlier today from the back of our cabin.

[Steel Shank 9,411]

Garner SP not too crowded today.

[NoName 16,288]

17 hours ago, Steel Shank said:

Garner SP not too crowded today.

got a link to that cabin you mind sharing?

[Steel Shank 9,411]

6 hours ago, NoName said:

got a link to that cabin you mind sharing?

https://www.vrbo.com/2231346?adultsCount=2&childrenCount=2&unitId=2795905

You can get a better deal by calling Veronica directly Phone listed on link.

[dingleberryswitzer 2,724]

Anyone been this year?  Heard the flow was basically nonexistent. Im

suppsed to go to Garner next week, but don’t want my kids to get worms and shit in their brains.  

[Da Fino 2,731]

Go somewhere else. Everything is fucked right now. No flow. They are also cutting water at night from 10p-6a.

[UncleBuck 6,444]

We booked back in March, and will be up in Camp Wood starting Sunday (Nueces side, obvz). We're not planning on floating, just finding a hole to soak in/let the kids play. We'll run over Frio way to check it out I'm sure. Will report if I remember. 

Edited June 24, 2022 by UncleBuck

[mbtex 683]

Was there a couple of weeks ago. Only good for just floating around swim hole. Super low and very little flow.

[Spoosner 86]

This is Concan: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?site_no=08195000 Don't see an exact reading for Leakey/Garner, but would assume the same.

I have not been this year, but I have been to Concan in a prior year when the discharge was zero. Tubing is clearly not an option. Find a swimming hole, and more importantly try to find a spring because the water will get quite warm as the day goes on (as you can see from the temp graph).

 

[CHIEF 5,068]

No way I would step foot in a river hole with no incoming or outgoing flow. The Paluxy, up here in Glen Rose is a lot like the Hill Country rivers, where it just gets pockets of stagnate water. Two kids have gotten amoebas, in the last few years, both ended up dying. We lived on the Brazos, when I was a kid, my Old Man would tear my ass up if he caught me in stagnant water. He told me he had known people that died after swimming in it. There wasn't any internet, he didn't know what caused it, but it had to be amoebas.

CHIEF

[CleverNickname 1,291]

7 hours ago, UncleBuck said:

We booked back in March, and will be up in Camp Wood starting Sunday (Nueces side, obvz). We're not planning on floating, just finding a hole to soak in/let the kids play. We'll run over Frio way to check it out I'm sure. Will report if I remember. 

We did Quince and Chalk Bluff this week. The improvements at Quince are amazing. Yes they charge now, but if it means less trash and future bathrooms, I'm all in. Water a lite low (obviously) but still flowing. Chalk Bluff is $15 per person but has a rope swing and all the modest volume conjunto you could ask for. 

[CleverNickname 1,291]

And fwiw, the Frio is still flowing through Garner, it just gets sucked dry by the time it gets to the Concan gauge. But it's less than it was in 2021 which was less than it was in 2020.

[UncleBuck 6,444]

On 6/24/2022 at 4:26 PM, CleverNickname said:

We did Quince and Chalk Bluff this week. The improvements at Quince are amazing. Yes they charge now, but if it means less trash and future bathrooms, I'm all in. Water a lite low (obviously) but still flowing. Chalk Bluff is $15 per person but has a rope swing and all the modest volume conjunto you could ask for. 

We were gunna do Quince (have never done it) but we had decent enough swimming in front of the property we rented.