Not too often, but it sure is right now. For 30+ years I duck hunted this stretch, but I got old, plus floods took away the island downstream about 300 yds, that I used.
These conditions are when the ducks love it. Never killed a woodie, but lots of gadwalls, widgeons, and mallards.
Video of river.

Looks like some nice petrified rock there too in your first pic.

Brazos county.

Ducks4brkfast said:

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Looks like some nice petrified rock there too in your first pic.

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10 or 12 years ago I surveyed a place in far eastern Washington County that hadn't had a new metes and bounds description recorded since the 1870s. One of the corner calls was for "a stone", and no more descriptive than that. It was a piece of petrified wood, similar to the one at the left of that pic. It was planted vertically, the top maybe 18 inches proud of the ground, in an open field just on the side of a two-track path through the field. You couldn't miss from a hundred feet away. I imagine it came out of the river and was carried a few miles to that spot and arranged to be unmistakable. I'd have remarked on it if I had been there on a hunt instead of a job. I've often been struck by how differently it was written about.

I guess it doesn't run muddy anymore.

Great pics! I remember the first time I duck hunted on the Brazos near Waco and I was stunned at the clarity of the water.

OP, have you read "Goodbye to a River?" It's a great, semi-historical account of the author's last canoe trip down the Brazos between Possum Kingdom and Lake Whitney before they started building dams. It's a cool read about the river you've grown up on.

3rdGenAg05 said:

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Great pics! I remember the first time I duck hunted on the Brazos near Waco and I was stunned at the clarity of the water.

OP, have you read "Goodbye to a River?" It's a great, semi-historical account of the author's last canoe trip down the Brazos between Possum Kingdom and Lake Whitney before they started building dams. It's a cool read about the river you've grown up on.

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Yep, have read the book, quite the adventure by John Graves.
The cooler fall/winter water has to help with the water clarity, due to less algae and vegetation bloom.
Besides ducks liking it, another bonus of having so many rocks and gravel areas are these prehistoric looking critters, hellagramites. Not sure there is a better natural bait, for catfish and gaspergou...

It runs clear-ish, near Glenrose. Not San Marcos river clear, but more than Brazos County, clear.