About the Arroyo Colorado
and the Lower Laguna Madre

*Arroyo City and the convergence of the Arroyo Colorado with the Lower Laguna Madre are centrally located between Port Mansfield and Port Isabel/South Padre Island. 

*The Arroyo is a nursery for shrimp, and hosts a variety of fish species, including tarpon and snook.

*The lower Laguna Madre is a vast hypersaline lagoon that is bordered on the north by the Land Cut (a channel dredged through the sand flats to join the lower Laguna to the upper Laguna Madre), to the east by Padre Island (the longest barrier island in the world), and on the west by the King Ranch and Laguna Atascosa National  Wildlife Refuge.

*The LLM is largely off limits to modern encroachment, and has a primitive beauty that is rare in today's world.

*Within a seven-mile radius of Arroyo City, birders can sight 350 different species of birds.

*The LLM is approximately 300 square miles in size, and about three fourths of it is virtually inaccessible to deep draft boats.

*It is the largest continuous shallow water flat in North America.

*The Laguna Madre was recently cited by Field and Stream (May 2002) as one of the top 10 places in the US to wet a line.

*It has been referred to as the least pressured, and most available salt water fly fishery today.

*It is the only true subtropical fishery in the continental US, except for south Florida.

*It has an average depth of just over one foot, and a maximum depth of three feet.

*The variety of venues includes grass-bottom lagoons and flats, and a vegetation-free flat called "the white sand," which resembles the Bahamas in its clarity and vastness.

*The LLM is usually clear, and even in strong winds there are large areas that remain clear.

*It is the only place in the world where you can frequently sight cast to world record spotted sea trout. Five of the seven current IGFA tippet class world records were caught on the LLM.

*Although the targeted species are redfish and speckled trout, the LLM also hosts other desirable species such as black drum, sheepshead, ladyfish, and flounder. 

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