Crappie are fair on minnows fishing timber, bridges, and brush piles. White bass are fair using slabs and swimbaits. Look for birds diving over feeding schools of white bass. Black bass are slow on ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

Here is the latest Fishing Report as provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife for Dec. 6.

Water level is 5 inches low and clear. Water temperature in the mid-80s.Fishing guide Randy Dearman says crappie fishing has been fair around brush piles in 25 to 35 feet, fishing 15 to 18 feet down ...

Black bass are good on swimbaits, skirted jigs, Texas-rigged plastic worms, frogs, and crankbaits fishing main lake points near drop-offs, rocky shorelines, and channel ledges. Crappie are good on ...

FORK — Water level is 2.52 feet low and fairly clear. Water temp in the low to upper 50s. Fishing guide Brooks Rogers says bass are good on 1/4 ounce and 1/2 ounce lipless cranks around shallow ...

ATHENS — Water level is at normal level. Surface temp in the low 90s. Fishing guide Levi Garrett says crappie fishing is fair around brush using minnows. Bass are schooling up on main lake structure, ...

TOLEDO BEND — Water level is 2.23 feet low and clear. Water temp in the mid 60s. Jane Gallenbach at River Ridge says white bass are good on sand bars on the main river. Lots females in the mix, ...