Brent designed and crafted the arrow himself. The river flows generally southeast for 200 miles until it empties into the Nueces River south of the town of Three Rivers. Ocassionally, you find them in sewers here in town, too. That is almost always where i fish (unless i am fishing in salt water). We have had a problem of poachers taking gator's in protected areas or out of season. Who would know more about alligators than the owner/manager of the locally famous San Antonio Alligator Garden. The Nueces River is right behind my house and I won't let my little dog or kids go near there since there are alligators, as well as alligator gars (although they stay in the water, but still ew!) I have never heard a report of gator attack in Texas. But any way was just wondering if … I am new to this website and was wondering if any one was from south texas or close to the nueaces river. 1 Crocodiles (commonly called alligators ) swarm in all parts of the Brahmaputra, and are very destructive to the fish, of which hundreds of varieties are found, and which supply a valuable article of food. Does any body fish the nueces river, or have ever fished there?? Alligators inhabit the southern river-bottoms, and there are some rattlesnakes on the uplands. Yes, there are gators here. The West Frio River rises from springs in northeastern Real County and joins with the East Frio River near the town of Leakey; the Dry Frio River joins northeast of Uvalde. Lake Corpus Christi is a reservoir in coastal southern Texas.The lake was created by impoundment of the Nueces River by the Wesley E. Seale Dam opened in 1958. He purchased the Model 252 Indian Archery Recurve Bow in the 1960's with the profits from his 8th grade job of mending fences. We asked if he wanted to buy any alligators. He responded by asking us where we had got them, and when we told him the Nueces River he said, ” there’s not any alligators in the Nueces River”. In 1978 Brent utilized his bow and arrow combo to take a 6-foot 2-inch alligator gar on the nearby Nueces River. The lake and the dam that creates it are managed by the City of Corpus Christi.Lake Corpus Christi was originally known as Lake Lovenskiold.It is often referred to as Lake Mathis because of its location. Brent's bow has a long history.