Turtle Creek

Quick look rating: ⁵⁄₅ Quality, ⁵⁄₅ Experience
Great park, clean most all of the time. The park is well kept and designed very well. The park follows turtle creek going south of the Dallas country club. The grass is well kept and can be found going right up the the creek. The homes around the park are gorgeous!
At the park there all kinds of activities going on from ducks and geese swimming about, young couples picnicking, joggers out getting a run complete to neighbors out for walks!
I run by here ever so often, and it’s fun to see some of all the wildlife here at the park! They have a nice pathway that goes through the narrow park.
I like very much that it is patrolled often as well. Nice officers that patrol the place! I always feel like that there is a calming effect on folks after they pass by or through a park!
If you come here to eat your lunch, which is a grand inexpensive way to spend some time, just make sure you pick up after yourself and/​or your family. Too many folks work their tail off here to make it look nice for others, thank you!
Great park to practice fly casting!
This is where I find this place extremely neat, it’s in practicing fly casting before I go fly fishing! The grass is cut nice and semi-​thin and there is not much to catch on your back cast!
Now a person could practice casting on the pavement/​cement but that would really tear up a fly fishing line and grass does a small bit as well. Here on the creek is a great place to cast! If you do practice out on the grass, it’s not to tough here at the creek.
The only real thing to watch for is when might come up and down the pathway. Now not all the time is a person going to just keep looking forward. If your really trying to improve your casting, you should be watching your back cast as well. You want to feel the pressure of the weight of the fly line going back and what it looks like matched to the line!
I came down here to the park several years ago with a fly casting instructor. We brought four different fly rods loaded up and I was the student. It was a grand experience! All four fly rods acted so different. Our lesson started out with a five weight nine foot rod, which I would say was the main learning/​teaching rod that we used! After 45 minutes, the casting loops were much tighter, more accurate and the ease of use was much more fluid! (Due to my instructors teaching that were excellent, we moved quickly)!
The other fly rods we tested were a 2 weight, 3 and a 4 weight with different lengths. It was like night a day between the rods. I loved that towards the end of the casting lesson, a little wind came up! It was great getting some pointers for casting in the wind!
**To note: If you practice fly casting here is to wash and clean your fly line afterwards. The reason being, I fear that the Dallas country clubs just up stream and the fertilizers and chemicals that might be going down stream. Cleaning your fly lines will help with the life of the fly lines.
All in all, I love this little park!