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What's up everybody, it's Simon from Lake Hub. Today we're enjoying the beautiful
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Lake Bob Sandlin in Northeast Texas. It is fall and it is the time to shine out
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here. Bob Sandlin is surrounded by hardwoods. It's right next to its
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sister lake, Lake Cypress Springs, right up the hill here. We'll do another video
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on that one too. But right here today we're out on Bob Sandlin and it is just
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a gorgeous beautiful fall day. So Lake Bob Sandlin is about 9,000 surface acres
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about 75 miles or so of shoreline, max depth of 65 feet. This lake was built for
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fun. It was built for water. It was built for tourism. It was built for industry. So
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there's a lot going on here. There's a lot of amenities. There is some kind of like
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industrial relics and stuff that you can see when you're out on the water. Old
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factories and whatnot. It's fed by Cypress Creek, which is kind of like a
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bayou until they, you know, built the lake. It was built in the 1970s, a little bit
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after Lake Cypress Springs. And let me tell you what, there's just so much to
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love out here. There's a ton of waterfront homes. There are some rentals
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not a ton, but there are some rentals, marinas, plenty of boat ramps. There are
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lots and lots of boat ramps. There's Bob Sandlin State Park, which is a great state park
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Dangerfield State Park is nearby. Lots of hiking trails and stuff like that out there too
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Bob Sandlin is a pretty good fishing lake. It's hard to shine when you're surrounded by
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like name brand bass fishing lakes like Lake Fork, but fishing is pretty darn good here
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And it's pretty good year-round. I mean, we're talking about Texas here. The fishing is pretty
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good year-round. Oddly enough, Texas Parks and Wildlife stocks this lake with rainbow trout in
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the wintertime, which, I'm a trout guy, and I love fishing for trout. And I just learned this
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so I'll be back. Cypress Creek is what feeds this lake. Back in the day, that was a jamming little
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river. Steamboats and all. Jefferson, Texas was like a port town, like Shreveport. And Shreveport
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and Jefferson, I mean, you can get back and forth between them thanks to like this massive log jam
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on the Red River that just kind of like backed up all these rivers and flooded them, made them deep
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enough to use steamboats in, which is kind of crazy. So that's where the grassroots of the
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industry in this area is rooted in. So as far as camping goes, at Bob Stanley State Park, there's
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about 75 campsites. There are also some private RV parks around the area, so there is a lot of
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camping. In fact, right here, we're at the water district. We're at the Titus County water district
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and there's some dry camping. And there's folks pulled up with campers all around the point
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and so there's just tons of camping around this lake. So we are right on the transition from
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Blackland Prairie to East Texas Piney Woods. It's called the Post Oak Savannah Transition Area
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and I really, really like it because I like kind of prairie land, I like hardwoods, and I like
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piney woods. But I don't like necessarily just one of those things. I like when they all mix
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and match, and they're all blended together. And that's, that just describes this whole area
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perfectly. It is really pretty out here. If you're looking for an unexpected getaway, this is your
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spot. Lake Bob, Santa Ana, Northeast Texas. Come out and see it. Enjoy our beautiful lakes. We love our
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lakes. Hope you love them too. I'm Simon from Lake Hub. We'll catch you next time
