Brushy Creek Norman's Crossing

Aaron Reed's book Fly Fishing Texas says it's an easy wade. This is a new area of Brushy for me to fish so let's explore it together. Norman's Crossing is near the junction of CR 129 and FM 1660. From Austin take 1660 and turn south (right) on CR 129. At the bridge crossing Brushy Creek drive over the bridge and park on the other side of the guardrail on the southeast side of the bridge. We will wade upstream since it's too deep to go downsteam! The creek flows fast and deep here over a mostly gravel bottom and is shaded by the bottomland hardwoods.

Rio Grande cichlids don't make it this far downsteam, but beautiful, genetically pure Guadalupe bass do and they are plentiful. Some are about the size and shape of a football. This is the Blackland Prairie, not limestone country. It's a great place for Carp-It Bomb flies with deep pools.

This area is in the red zone on the map for the Brushy Creek Watershed Protection Planning meetings. I want to collect Texas Stream Team water samples in this area to see how the water quality changes as the population takes off like a rocket. There's a new Samsung plant going in somewhere in this area along Brushy Creek. It's time to stand up for Brushy Creek and protect it!

Found the Samsung plant address: 1530 FM973, Taylor, TX 76574. It's a 12 minute drive from where we will be fishing at Norman's Crossing.
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