Fishing Report from Area Lakes

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Lake Meredith: FAIR. Water stained; 68 degrees; 51.35 feet low. Black bass are slow, strictly just lacking structure, and bass are stressed searching for food. Fish with worms, spinners, and crankbait. Walleye are good after a good initial surge using smaller spinners, crankbait, and jigs. Crappie are fair on jigs working timber. White bass are slow. Channel catfish are fair fishing stinkbait and cut bait.

Arrowhead FAIR. Water stained; 70-72 degrees; 0.13 feet high. Largemouth bass are great on using the many structures like docks and along the dam on worms, crankbait, and spinners sinking deeper than the last couple of weeks. White bass are fair on Alabama Rigs, finding the right northern points with deep drops. Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows in human-made structures. Catfish are fair at all depths on cheese bait, stinkbait, and minnows.

Lake Greenbelt: FAIR. Water stained; 67 degrees; 39.72 feet low. Black bass are fair with less activity and movement, staying in trees and brush with consistency on worms, spinners, and occasional topwater. Catfish are fair on live bait lake-wide. Walleye are good with a slight slowdown just out from structure. Sunfish on cutworms and crappie on jigs and sometimes minnows around most covered structures. White bass are slow.

White River: FAIR. Water murky; 66-70 degrees; 24.85 feet low. Drought conditions are still in place. Please check boat ramp access. Largemouth bass are fair to slow with slow activity on worms, crankbait, and spinners searching deep structures. Crappie are fair on jigs in vegetation. Walleye are fair fishing slowly at a depth of 6 feet. Catfish are fair on live bait, cut bait, and prepared bait near the Marina.

Alan Henry: FAIR. Water clear 69-71 degrees; 5.46 feet low. Black bass are good finding points rocks, and deeper structures identified on depth finders working crankbaits, spinners, and worms. Crappie are fair with jigs further south. Catfish are fair on live bait, cut bait, and stinkbait.

Stamford: FAIR. Water stained; 68-71 degrees; 0.98 feet high. Black bass are fair, preferring low wind overcast days using bass jigs, crankbaits, and Carolina rigged worms. Crappie are good casting under marina structure on jigs and minnows. White bass are fair on points Alabama rigs. Catfish are fair on live bait and stinkbait prepped pellets.

Information in this fishing report is from Texas Parks and Wildlife, Bitly link: https://bit.ly/2WY3ARx.