Thanks a lot! Glad yall enjoy the videos, the next big trip will be from Dallas down to where we started

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 bring your hazmat suit!!

Haha we're crazy for sure, thanks for watching!

Thanks and same here I've been planning for that trip for a while, the next trip is Dallas to Palestine, glad y'all enjoy watching!

I didn't know that about the dam, that's interesting. There's a lot of history around the trinity river!

They kept trying to build this river system until about 1970s it completely disappeared in investors and city halls hands

​@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780that Lock was built about 1830 the raise the water level so barges could come up river and port at the Magnolia ferry crossing. They brought goods off loaded from ships at the coast and were met at Magnolia Ferry crossing (it's and Old crossing) by store keepers in wagons from a hundred miles from all around to get supplies. Most the barges sat there until the cotton was grown and collected to carry back down river to the ships that would travel back around Florida and up the east coast to New York where the Textile Mills were. That lasted until the civil war and the north blocked the shios and barges. Magnolia had grown to about 800 population, yet a real town. But after the war the Rail Road came and went through Palestine and Magnolia died. The Magnolia Crossing was the only river crossing until about 1920 when they built a bridge on hwy. 79/84. The road still goes to the river and you can see where the barges parked but there is nothing left of Magnolia. The locals still go fishing there, shoot their guns and camp. I live 1 1/2 miles down river from there on 90 acres with frontage, the fishing there is the best I have ever seen when you can get to it. Hahahaha, it looks like you had Fun on your trip : )

​@@julianmares9496why did they abandon the project?

I grew up in Big D 58 to ​73 I always hoped they would build a port of Dallas. Nowadays I wonder why when the highway department rebuilt the trinity river bridge on I 10 they made it so tall

It was a heck of a trip, thanks for watching. And good luck on the river!

Thanks for watching! Glad folks are enjoying it

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 you are welcome!

Don't get discouraged friend, where there's a will there's a way! Pick the right crew or y'all be fighting 100 miles or so in haha, best of luck from the ridge!

Get you a good kayak. A stabile gear hauling kayak. I’ve got a sea ghost 130 and it can haul the gear but IDK about taking it through the lock n dams. Then again if it flips it’s easy to right and not that hard to get back in. Bonafides s127 looks like it might do it. Supposed to be super stable. But slower. Cheaper options are ascend kayaks. I’ve also got a ascend H12. It’s stabile but steers like a battle ship. Being hybrid between a kayak and a canoe you also need a good bilge system. 12T being a sit on top might do better IDK. There’s plenty of other options, many more that are hundreds to a few thousand dollars more expensive. But to a point you get what you pay for. But most of the kayak options will be cheaper than a Jon boat with a motor above 9.9 hp. Especially if you’re carrying a backup motor. Just not as fast

Thanks glad you enjoyed it! The next big trip will be where the river begins in Dallas to where we started

I'm sure they trucked around. TRA won't let you touch the dam.

Haha you got that! Yep we pulled out at Browders Marina and put back in a the spillway, thanks for watching!

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 you bet. Good video. Good gun! Lol

From 190 full speed to jump over damn n all the rocks below

Thank you much! And thanks for supporting the channel!

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you sir, sure was

Thats my pitbull Keechi, I named him after the I grew up fishing. He loves a boat ride!

Love hearing from folks on the river! Thanks for watching, it's a heck of a trip, there is a website that has river miles too the old steamboat ports, ferrys ect. It's very helpful too gauge trips

Glad you enjoyed it?

Interesting I didn't know we're on the edge of their range, we catch tons of them accidentally on throw lines, but don't usually see them out and about. A 200lb turtle is hassive! Biggest one I've caught may have been 90lb

Yessir, it was too rough in the bay for that though, we broke every single brace in that john boat crossing the bay!

Sure will, you do the same!

That would be too cool to catch a shark in the river

Yes ma'am It was

@@clintonbruning your a man after my own heart haha! Glad you enjoyed the video. What is the river like up there? I've never been

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 it’s honestly decently clear, with good bass fishing. But the current isn’t anywhere close to as strong as it looks in the lower part of the river where you were. I think you’ve inspired me to try to take on the whole thing from lake worth to downtown on my paddleboard in a day sometime here soon 👊🏽

​@@clintonbruning thats too cool! Hard to imagine catching a bass in the river haha

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 believe it lol. You’ll have to come up here and do it sometime 👊🏽

Living in Galveston from north east Texas I miss QT, Taco Bueno and mostly Braums.

That's too cool, must be nice to live on the river! Crazy it was unlocked and free, I hit it pretty hard haha

@@HampETX903 God bless the South

Thanks for watching! With gray hairs come wisdom....I have neither haha

Glad you enjoyed it!

Telodo bend, never been, but I'd like to see it! What part of the Trinity did you fish?

I really like it it's tough! It charged my camera 3 times, my phone twice, I didn't even run it halfway down! The solar panel didn't work though, a little disappointing

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 the solar panel is trickle charge not good for anything

That's too cool, good fishing there, lots of gators too! Thanks for watching!

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 yessir. Loved the video man.

@@jonathanmodisette6997 glad to hear people are enjoying the channel that's great! The next big trip will be Dallas down to where we started, don't know when but it's in the works

Love that river!

I hear that, give me a holler sometime!

Thanks for watching! That would be cool, the next trip will be the forks in Dallas down to where we started. I'll look for that book sounds like a good read

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 it is I think the Neches has some really bad log jams so it might be hard to travel in a Jon boat so do some good research before you go down it. It is one of the last untamed rivers in Texas would be a epic trip

Thank again, glad you found my channel!

My buddy's wife came with a trailer, we pulled out at the Browders Marina and put back in at the spillway

I would love to do a guided trip to the coast. We just don't have the resources to do a trip that big yet. As of right now we could do small scale guided fishing/ bow fishing and duck hunting trips though.

Thanks it sure was, the next big trip will be Dallas to where we started hopefully in the fall

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 im super stoked for you to film that I really really enjoyed this.

@@turboFPSthanks again, I'm glad you enjoyed it, there's plenty more coming up

Ive got a friend, that has been trying to talk me into hammocks as well. I think I may try it

My buddy's wife came with a trailer, we pulled out at the marina on the dam, got back in the river behind the spillway

Thank you sir, next trip will be from Dallas to where we started

Thanks for watching, haha you're probably right!

Yeah it sounded better summer

saw the kid had one thats good

Yessir not a bad idea, you as well, take care!

That's too cool, yessir that is a long way in a canoe.it would probably take 10 days. there is website, that has all the old steamboat ports along the river with river miles too, it's hard to to find, but worth looking for

Yessir we trailered out of Browders Marina to the spill way, 85 is that up in Dallas?

Yes 85 bridge is Ellis county and Henderson county line south of Dallas y’all are tuff can’t imagine mosquitos and gnats 😮 enjoyed the video Thanks

@@doncarson2991 good to know, the next trip will from Dallas to where we started. Haha yessir the bugs got meaner the further we went. Thanks for watching!

​@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780I was cutting under brush on the highline on the trinity at Liberty heard two mosquitoes say we should take those two humans out of here before the big ones get here we got out of there fast before the big ones got there😂

​@@user-hx3nw3vj8m I hear that hahaha!

I hear that!

Nice place ever been to O'Neils sportsbar?

Yes it was! We are all from that area, and it was two nights and three days sun up to sun down. DFW down will be the next big trip, it is navigable but not by much from my understanding. We may have to wait for the river to rise or run long tails

Thanks for watching! Takes almost 40 gallons of fuel, and 4 days comfortably, best of luck! Be safe!

Same. Right below the damn in Goodrich.

That is unfortunate, can't beat living on the river!

Thank you sir! Nah we haven't, I've never even fished it. Heard good things about it though

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 its beautiful and remote....you see all sorts of wildlife. Very untouched But, it can be sketchand you occasionally will come across people in the middle of nowhere grinding the few teeth they have left like they just blasted off. loo Gotta stay ready. Keep the videos comin

Why 50 years ago

Cause back in the 60's I was racing dirt bikes all over the piney woods around Palestine. Floated neches river, a lot then. If that doesn't turn the light on Then I will tell you Fifty yrs ago I was young enuf to do it. I always wanted to run brazos from Possum kingdom To lake Whitney. Lots of them floats would have been fun. Did alot as it was. I'm old now but I still remember Fighting snakes all night long on Chambers creek all night fishing many times. That's why.

I enjoy the heck out of watching ya. Didn't have camera like these phones have back then. Wow, if. We did it. Would have been great. Ya be safe and have fun!

I'm glad you enjoy the videos, sounds like you have some good stories, and caught a lot of fish, too bad they didn't have GoPros and such then, it would have been something to see

You take care Sir

I'd say south of Livingston, that's when we stopped counting

March, the river is infested with gators, all over even close to the launch sites.

Nos sir my buddy's wife came with a boat trailer to get us around the dam, she brought the motor with her. It was scary when that thing broke!!

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 man that’s a big fear of mind. Motors flipping up onto me

That's a good idea, crossing the bay would have been much less stressful haha! We broke every single brace in my boat crossing trinity bay. Good thing you had a pump, that could have been a very bad day! Good luck out there!

Did you motor get ripped off the transom from hitting a hill or rock?

like you guys i carry a lot of survival preps. My Buddy Roser wants us to do a long drive and camp out for a few days, but i am concerned about destroying my boat, and its fiberglass.

​@@TrinityRiverTxExcursion-he6sxis mister roser Beau Roser by chance

Fun stuff! How long did it take you?

Next trip is Dallas down!

It sure is, I planned the trip off steamboat port mileage, and confirmed it with time and fuel

Haha 150 miles of fuel won't even get you to lake Livingston haha

Yeah wish I took videos, Livingston dam was easy went to browders marina on the edge of the dam and got a ride to the spillway ramp in the river trip was just over 550 mile and took a little over 40 gallons of fuel

Lock n dam was tough, my buddy nearly lost his boat, we emptied mine and carried over the dam

Haha yeah stubborn pitbulls, he's a good one though

It's 550 miles to the bay and 30 to O'Neils sportsbar in Baytown, it's a crooked river!

The whole river is 710 miles starting in Dallas

Palestine is the closest town from where we started, we ended in the Trinity bay, at O'Neils sportsbar in Baytown, 550 miles river miles later

Yes it was! Thanks for watching! We had a large first aid kit in the boat. We probably should have had a small kit in our packs to

@@rabbitridgeoutdoors3780 I enjoyed it. I would have liked more detail. Y'all got other trips planed.

It's 550 river miles, it's not even remotely straight

550 miles on a river is insane! I love this being a native Texan.

550 is river miles......it's not straight, Palestine is the closest town from where we started, and O'Neils sports bar on the water in Baytown, in trinity bay

Thanks for the feedback! Useless videos need useless comments! Helps the algorithm show it to other people!

Yeah I took it to a tig shop after the trip, crossing the bay snapped every single brace in the boat!

Yeah...sounded better last summer

Biden doesn’t even like hamas tf are you on abt 😭😭😭

Yessir old steamboat maps said 550, we ran 20 miles an hour for around 9 hours a day for three days,

If anything it was farther one day we ran nearly 12 hours not full speed though. Went through 40 gallons of fuel