Lakes around Dallas Tx
 

Looking at a possible transfer to the Dallas area, are any of the lakes down there performance boat friendly, and which lake offers docks behind the home? Thanks in advance for your help.

wakeboard and pontoon and bass boat country. And already starting back in drought once again. There is a few sportboats running around but not like it use to be.

Only been on a couple up there. Joe Pool wasn't too bad but a little small. Eagle Mountain was pretty nice and had boat houses. Bucket list trip this year is Possum Kingdom near Mineral Wells.

Possum Kingdom and Lake Texoma both are an hour and half from DFW. Those are the only 2 lakes I would go to with a Sportboat and want to let it rip a bit. PK has no pull up bars nor food places. Texoma has a few places. Lake Travis in Austin is a good place to give a try as well. 200 miles from DFW.

If you follow the posts under this section - one can see not much sport boating taking place in the DFW area for the past couple of years.

Coming from LOTO you might be disappointed boating locally in the DFW area. The local lakes are small and a few lakes have mostly entry level boats running around. We have 3 or 4 Bass Pro shops and 2 Cabelas locally and there is a reason for it. A ton of small entry level boat buyers. No Poker Runs period for at least 180 miles radius around.

You are correct. However, PK does have Hell's Gate and that ain't bad. We hope to make it up there next summer. When we went to Joe Pool, it was in my old mahogany 18 footer and we didn't see a single sportboat. Not a big lake and it was rough as hell for a wooden flat bottom. Not sure if it's Ray Hubbard or another one, but doesn't it have some boat up bars/restaurants on it?

Travis is crazy in the summer when the water is up. We have a place on LBJ and it's not bad at all most of the summer.

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That is what I was worried about, LOTO is a blast for sure. We may just keep the LOTO house and travel to it. We drive 4.5 hours to it now every weekend, but from DFW we may be flying more.

Had our baja272 down here for a year and didnt really like it at all. I had not made it out to Texoma yet, but it sounded like probably the best lake to choose around here. We are taking the boat back to Kansas and going back for the big weekends and then LOTO a couple of times a year also. Storage prices down here are pretty crazy also.

PK Poker Run
 

There is a group that has started running at PK its called Possum Kingdom Muscle Boat Association and they are on face book and have there own web page. I was think about making couple of their fun runs and poker run if they have it next year. They seemed to have a decent turn out last summer.

Will have to change my mind about this - you will be totally disappointed boating in Dallas / Ft Worth area. Sorry fellow North Texas boaters. It is weak here for true sport boats with any blue power and custom power. If I thought great boating exists here and decent sport boating exists here, I would keep the brand New Lavey Craft in the area. I am not nor ever thought about leaving the Lavey here to boat in the area if that tells anyone. I have boated or been in most ever major poker run around the USA, When North Texas did have Poker Runs they were nothing to write home about, For the past 8 years really nothing but a few fun runs with maybe 20 get together boats MAX. Believe me North Texas boating will never compare to LOTO, Havasu , 1000 Islands, Lake George, Lake Lanier, Anywhere in Michigan, Lake Powell, Lake Tahoe and the list goes on. Sorry guys it is what it is.

60 mins at Loto one would see more sportboats than 2 years in DFW on all the lakes combined. Have to tell it like it is.