Fishing Report on Area Lakes

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Lake Meredith: GOOD. Water stained; 75-80 degrees; 53.63 feet low. Overall the bite is in full swing anywhere from 5-40 feet of water. Bass are good on minnows and artificial baits. Catfish are good on live, stinks, and punch baits. Crappie are excellent with jigs, grubs, artificials, but minnows have the best bite. White bass are excellent on minnows, crankbaits, and any type of artificials. Trout are slow, slow, slow with some still being caught on power baits and small spinners. Walleye are excellent catching limits on minnows, crawlers, crankbaits, grubs, and other artificials. Please be safe by watching weather reports. Life vests save lives. Hope this helps you enjoy Lake Meredith. Report by Kenneth Wysong, SharKens Honey hole.

Lake Greenbelt: FAIR. Water stained; 77 degrees; 42.24 feet low. Best fishing is early morning and later in the evening. Catfishing at night is good with cheese bait and cut bait. Crappie are good using minnows and small jigs on brush piles and standing timber. Largemouth bass fair with an early morning topwater bite, and using crankbaits and spinner baits on grass lines. Sand bass are good schooling on humps biting silver spoons. Walleye are good scattered all over the lake on crappie jigs, buzz bait and minnows.

White River: SLOW. Water stained; 78 degrees; 23.07 feet low. Fishing off the pier in 4-6 feet of water is reeling in catfish and white bass. Catfish are good on cut shad. White bass are good at night under the pier lights on trout flies and small jigs

Alan Henry: FAIR. Water clear; 81 degrees; 7.19 feet low. Fish are in that summer pattern biting the same as we head into another hot Texas weekend. Crappie are good in 25-40 feet of water over trees with minnows. There is a great night bite under green lights in 35 feet of water. Report provided by Randy Britton, Lake Alan Henry Crappie Guide.

Arrowhead: GOOD. Water lightly stained; 82-85 degrees; 3.31 feet low. As the water temperatures increase fish are moving to deeper water. Catfish can be caught early shallow and then move out to deeper water on punch and fresh cut shad. Crappie are good in 10 feet of water on rocks and brush with minnows and jigs. Report by Brandon Brown, Brown’s Guide Service.

Stamford: FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 2.59 feet low. Crappie are slow on minnows and jigs, fish submerged structures. Catfish are good in the shallows and rocks with cut shad, perch and bass minnows. Bass are good off the bank on plastic worms and crankbaits. Report by Anchor Marina.

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