Campfire Conversations 87: Save the Cutoff – UPDATE

Henderson County residents have fished and hunted the Cut Off oxbow lake for over a century. The water body was listed as navigable back in the 1930s and therefore public access is a fundamental right for anyone wishing to utilize the […]

An episode of the Lone Star Outdoor Show podcast, hosted by Lone Star Outdoor Show, titled "Campfire Conversations 87: Save the Cutoff – UPDATE" was published on September 26, 2025 and runs 33 minutes.

September 26, 2025 ·33m · Lone Star Outdoor Show

Summary

Henderson County residents have fished and hunted the Cut Off oxbow lake for over a century. The water body was listed as navigable back in the 1930s and therefore public access is a fundamental right for anyone wishing to utilize the lake. Sadly, a wealthy landowner came in and has tried to shut off public access entirely but putting up a fence on TxDot property he doesn’t have the right to build on. Lifelong Henderson County resident Dustin Baker makes his return to the show to discuss the latest update in the community’s fight against this landowner and the future of the Cutoff. Unfortunately, political corruption runs deep in this case, and the court system recently handed the landowner a major victory in his fight to lock up the 700 acre lake all to himself. (A couple Henderson County youngsters with a nice haul of crappie and catfish taken the weekend before the judge’s ruling)  

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