Devils River

I got a deer lease near Juno a few years ago. After meeting some people that knew the area I started learning a little bit about the country, and heard a lot of stories about the Devils River. I did a little research on it, and decided I wanted to do a river trip. It took about two years to find people I trusted enough that were willing and able to make the trip with me and I finally did it last weekend.

We survived off beef jerky, crackers, fish we caught from the river, water we purified from the river, coffee we made from the river, and whiskey. We slept on the ground, turned our cell phones off, and enjoyed every minute of it for three days. It was absolutely the best adventure of my life.

Here are some of my favorite pictures.

Totally Awesome, This is on my bucket list. Great Pictures

Man thats looks like an awesome trip and those are some great pics.

Awesome! It is definitely on my list too

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Those pictures are so awesome they almost look fake. Simply beautiful country. Thanks for sharing.

What photo editing did you use on those pics? They almost don't look real lol.

looks like he's using filters Sapper. Even most phones have them or if you load onto PB they have some basic filters as well. His pics came out great even more so the perspective he took them from.

Absolutely awesome photography!

There's a handful of APPS on my phone that I use. Just depends on the light and background and stuff what I do to them. Some of these didn't have anything done to them. Most of them are stills taken from GoPro videos. The GoPro shoots HD video with a lot of frames per second so the image quality is outstanding, which is really what matters the most to start with.

Great pics.

Awesome pics. I floated the Devil back in the mid 90's with 4 friends. Most fun I have ever had even to this day. I would love to do it again.

Great job.

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Yes is does and I am sooo jealous.

Great pics. and I bet it was a blast!!

Great trip, great pics, and some nice fish. Looks like alot of fun!

Outstanding pics

I'm going to add that trip to my bucket list.

Very nice!!! How far did you travel down the river? Is the water really clear all the way? Thanks!

qualifies for best post of the year

Where did you launch from and get out at? That river is one sweet place

Clear water!

We put in at Baker's Crossing. We went 23 miles down river and got out at Gerald Bailey's house. He has an awesome house built into a cliff overlooking the river, and he runs a shuttle service and rents kayaks and canoes.

The water is super clear, and gets a little murky in some places, just depends on where you are at. Some places you can look down and see fish clear as daylight swimming in water 10-15 feet below you.

Great pics

I'm doing another trip and making it longer. We didn't have near as much time to fish as I would have liked to. We had to paddle/drag kayaks 8 miles a day to get home on time, and it was a lot of work. Doing a 5 day trip next time so we can enjoy it more.

This was more of a trial run than anything. There were 4 of us and we had never done anything even remotely similar in our lifetimes.

Love that area

Great Pics Amigo

Do you know what the flow was for your float? I did it 7 or 8 years ago, at about 180 cfs, and it was way too low. We didn't have any time to fish, and had to paddle long and hard to make the takeout on schedule. Still it was a blast, and the Devils is an awesome river. I'd like to do it again but with a higher flow.

I've done it a few times,.... That's a nice small mouth!

Man that makes me want to take my kayak out on a trip like that. Looks like it was a blast.

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Good Times

Great pics! Every time I see pictures from there it looks like it would be an amazing trip to take

Give us the write up on the trip. Great pics!

Great pics. You have seen and travelled parts of Texas that many Texans will never see in their lifetime. Great job.

I am all over this. I've been wanting to do a river trip for a while!

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Unbelievable pics and trip. All I can say is WOW!

I'll do one - Give me a little while and I'll put something together.

wish I weren't so durn old

Fantastic pics and adventure. Well done.

Those are some great pictures!

Awesome pics! Looks like a blast!

Thanks for the post!

My brother was a guide for the Boy Scouts up on Moose Lake in MN for the canoe base. We went on a 9 day trek up into Canada through Prairie Portage. We ended up going a total of 115+ miles in 9 days. My next goal was to find a spot in Texas to have a canoe trip down a river. This may be it!

Great pictures. Thanks and enjoyed it. Water looks super clear. Look at doing BBNP to Dryden/ Langtry, Or even better the Western Canyons leading into BBNP. Canyons are unbelievable pretty.

I hate you......but only because I am so jealous.

Great pics.............

Well planned adventure for sure! Defiantly want to do this.

Very cool pics!

Awesome Pics. Looks like something I need to go do.

Did you get shot at or ticketed for trespassing? Land owners on the Devils are just a tad bit on the sensitive side.

love that place

Great pics, thanks for sharing

No Sir. We saw 4 people total during the trip, they were on the little piece of land that TPWD owns with River frontage. There are islands and anything that would be underwater if the river rose up to 11 inches is legal to camp on (very gradual banks).

Lots of no trespassing signs, definitely have to be careful about getting out of the water though. A little common sense will keep you out of trouble.

looks awesome, I'm trying to get some friends to commit to a devils trip next spring