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Arroyo City has survived in relative obscurity for many years and was known mostly to only the locals of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. It is primarily a fishing community.
The Arroyo Colorado
Arroyo City is located on the banks of the Arroyo Colorado, a natural drainage system that meanders down through the middle of what the locals call the Valley. It’s located about 15 miles East of the small town of Rio Hondo, Texas and about12 miles from the lower Laguna Madre and what is referred to as the Mouth of the Arroyo. There has not been much happening there for many years except when the speckled trout come up in the Arroyo to feed under the lights of the small private fishing piers that you will find along the waterway’s banks. For years Arroyo City has remained small, quite and some what isolated and insulated from the rest the major fishing activity of the Valley. This may be due to the fact that the Arroyo Colorado is only navigable up to Rio Hondo, Texas. However, about 12 miles East of Arroyo City is the mouth of the Arroyo that allows a boater and fisherman to enter the Lower Laguna Madre between Port Mansfield and Port Isabel, and offers access to some spectacular fishing grounds.
After many years things may be changing for this small fishing community. There is evidence that more and more people are taking notice of the quite peacefulness and rugged beauty of this semi arid South Texas area. Frances and Larry Wolpin of Harlingen, Texas are getting very close to finishing and opening what looks like will be a unique and first class fishing lodge there in Arroyo City. The FishNet Daily News was in Arroyo city around the 28th of September looking for a fishing lodge we had heard about and discovered that Atascosa Outlook was the place.
| The main house at Atascosa Outlook This will be one of those unique places to find great peace and quite, probably wonderful food with a Tex-Mex flavor and access to superb fishing. |
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| A look at what will be the front entrance to
Atascosa Outlook September the 28th |
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While at Arroyo City we had the opportunity to visit with Lynn Koch of STR Properties and learned there are two more developments, that involve water canals and water front properties, which are just starting to break ground. They are Pelican Pointe and Heron Cove. These will be up-scale type of developments and we understand that STR Properties is the major player in Pelican Pointe and a Mr. Tommy Wilson of McAllen, Texas is the developer of Heron Cove. This will be two projects we look forward to seeing come to completion.
Maybe we can get an opportunity to do stories on these projects as they progress and begin to change the face of Arroyo City.
Fisherman’s
Corner is a private catfish pond operation that is open to the
public and is the perfect place to introduce children or “newcomers” to
the sport of fishing. It is located on the north side of Canyon Lake in
Comal County, Texas just outside of New Braunfels on F.M. 306. If you
are looking for a place that offers guaranteed action and fish for a
reasonable price, then Fisherman’s Corner is the place for you. It is a
catch and pay operation and you can have the staff clean the catch or
you can take them home and clean them yourself.
We
took our grandkids out and had a great time and I was shocked to see how
our 14 year old granddaughter, took to fishing. To my surprise she would
not allow me to bait her hook or take her fish off the line, she
insisted on doing it herself. Our 6 year old grandson needed a bit more
attention but still turned out to be a great trooper.
These are the types of things you can share with kids and they never forget them. You can take you own equipment or rent rods and reels there at the bait house and get all your supplies.
Fisherman’s
Corner
21910 F.M. 306
Canyon Lake, Texas
210-213-253
5:30AM - 10:00PM
Pipe Creek Ranch Texas
San Antonio Texas sits on the southern edge of the Edwards Plateau, a defined geographical area in Texas also known as the Texas Hill Country and the “Country of 1100 Springs”. This area is made up of gently rolling limestone hills that are covered with live oak trees, cedar trees and native prairie grasses, with a sprinkling of cactus here and there. The limestone hills are honey combed below the ground surface with small caves and voids that collect the rain waters that fall in this region.
The
waters that are collected below the surface in these natural reservoirs,
be they large or small, seep their way through cracks and fissures and
make their way to the ground surface forming small springs that feed
streams and creeks that run through the myriads of canyons in the Texas
Hill Country. Sometimes these springs can be large and strong and
actually form small rivers. The Nueces, Llano, Frio, Blanco, Guadalupe,
and Pedernales Rivers are examples of pristinely beautiful clear water
rivers that are formed by this phenomenon. of nature.
One of the these small rivers or year around creeks flows through the hills northwest of San Antonio near the small community of Pipe Creek, Texas. We don’t know which was named first, the creek, the town or the ranch, but they are all named Pipe Creek.
Pipe Creek Ranch is an example of what a landowner can achieve with a lot of vision, some investment, and some good hard work.
Pipe Creek Ranch offers to the individual, the family, the church, the school, or the corporate group a unique setting for fishing, hunting, biking, birding, photo safaris, retreats, weddings, vacations, and corporate seminars. Whether it is for a day, a week-end, or for an extended period of time this is a great get away place whose facilities are being offered for the first time. This is a superb place for the outdoors family for a day or a week-end. Just look at the fishing lakes.
Now it’s time to meet Ben Eldredge… This is the guy to contact for more information about all of the facilities at Pipe Creek Ranch. You can’t meet a nicer and more personable young man in the state of Texas than Ben. He is certainly qualified to talk about his family's ranch as he is a degreed and certified naturalist. Ben is a perfect mix of hands on experience and education.
Ben can be contacted at the following:
www.pipecreekranch.com
pipecrkranch@aol.com
Or 1-830-535-4024
Here are a few more pictures of the ranch.
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