On my first morning deep in the Piney Woods, I handed over three quarters for a Sabine County Reporter. The 133-year-old East Texas weekly had just come off the press, but the main headline—“Toledo Bend Retains Top Spot on Bassmaster’s 100 Best Bass Lakes”—was old news. In less than 24 hours I’d already heard as much from the woman who’d checked me in to my rustic waterfront cabin, from the high schooler who’d sold me a summer watermelon from a flatbed, and from the restaurant owner who’d introduced himself as I finished my fried-shrimp supper. Toledo Bend Reservoir, the 185,000-acre lake that straddles the Sabine River and, thus, the Texas-Louisiana line, was what I’d come to see—and one of its famed trophy lunkers was what…View Original PostThe post Trip Guide: Toledo Bend Reservoir appeared first on Texas Monthly.
