Lower Mountain Fork questions

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Bass_Bustin_Texan: Re: Lower Mountain Fork questions
After March 1st it's a playground. Middle of Spring Break doesn't help. Come back in winter when the kids are too cold to play.

Water coming out of the lake has been off color since it reopened a month ago. That was my first stop of the day (1st Friday it opened). Usually you can see the bottom in the little cut there on the right, now you can maybe see 6" or so. I guess all that water even stirred up water 200' deep down at the dam. Crazy, I know.

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