Fishing Report on Texas Lakes

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Lake Meredith: GOOD. Water stained; 70 degrees; 53.41 feet low. Overall the bite is in full swing. Bass are good in the shallows on minnows and artificial baits. Catfish are good on live, stink, and punch baits. Crappie are excellent with minnows being the ticket. Throwing jigs, grubs and other artificials will get a bite too. Trout are slow on power baits and small spinners. Walleye are excellent with many limits coming on minnows, crawlers, crankbaits, grubs, and other artificials. Please be safe, watch 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; 41.57 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; 22.64 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 on white jigs, carp and are always good on dough bait.

Alan Henry: FAIR. Water clear; 75 degrees; 6.61 feet low. 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; 75-78 degrees; 3.00 feet low. Shad continue to spawn along the shorelines early morning attracting some fish shallow early. Fish are scattered all over the lake. Catfish are good deep and shallow on punched bait and fresh cut shad. Crappie bite is fair on submerged structure with minnows and jigs. Report by Brandon Brown, Brown’s Guide Service.

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