Thread: Dear Texas Crappie Folks

The year has been a long one and not full of good news .But , to be sure the crappie fishing is right off the CHARTS NOW !
Pick your winter poison and go chase them . The bite is right and winter has set in early .
Some are deep ,some are shallow and both black and white crappie can be had in abundance on many local water bodies .
Boats ,Docks , Banks , Creeks , the sky is the limit
About every one of the waters i like have a bite right now and the fish look healthy and fat .
Go get ya some my friends
KABOOM is the word

Joe Pool is still hit and miss. One day will be good, the next couple of days not so good.

I mainly fish Roberts now, I have lived on most every side of the metroplex over the years and have fished Tawk, Fork, Lavon, hubbard, lewisville and now primarly Roberts due to where I live. Most of the other lakes I have learned where they go now but for the life of me, I can not figure them out on Roberts in the winter. This is my 3rd year trying. April to Nov, I have them nailed down but not when it gets this cold. Once they leave the deep water brush piles and the dam, I can not find them. I spent 8 hours yesterday hitting every spot I know with only 2 small ones at the dam in 50' of water so I went up to the 3002 bridge and checked it out, I found a pair with livescope and got one. I saw a couple others but no numbers at the bridge to speak of. I went North of the bridge fishing timer in about 30' of water for the next 1/2 mile and nothing to speak of. That lake is full of fish, they have to be somewhere. Any clue what part of the lake they are in this time of year? Any help would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by fishingreg

I mainly fish Roberts now, I have lived on most every side of the metroplex over the years and have fished Tawk, Fork, Lavon, hubbard, lewisville and now primarly Roberts due to where I live. Most of the other lakes I have learned where they go now but for the life of me, I can not figure them out on Roberts in the winter. This is my 3rd year trying. April to Nov, I have them nailed down but not when it gets this cold. Once they leave the deep water brush piles and the dam, I can not find them. I spent 8 hours yesterday hitting every spot I know with only 2 small ones at the dam in 50' of water so I went up to the 3002 bridge and checked it out, I found a pair with livescope and got one. I saw a couple others but no numbers at the bridge to speak of. I went North of the bridge fishing timer in about 30' of water for the next 1/2 mile and nothing to speak of. That lake is full of fish, they have to be somewhere. Any clue what part of the lake they are in this time of year? Any help would be appreciated.

They are stupid on fire ridiculous good up in buck creek as I type my friend ....
My buds are bank angling them to death every day way up in there

Originally Posted by fishingreg

I mainly fish Roberts now, I have lived on most every side of the metroplex over the years and have fished Tawk, Fork, Lavon, hubbard, lewisville and now primarly Roberts due to where I live. Most of the other lakes I have learned where they go now but for the life of me, I can not figure them out on Roberts in the winter. This is my 3rd year trying. April to Nov, I have them nailed down but not when it gets this cold. Once they leave the deep water brush piles and the dam, I can not find them. I spent 8 hours yesterday hitting every spot I know with only 2 small ones at the dam in 50' of water so I went up to the 3002 bridge and checked it out, I found a pair with livescope and got one. I saw a couple others but no numbers at the bridge to speak of. I went North of the bridge fishing timer in about 30' of water for the next 1/2 mile and nothing to speak of. That lake is full of fish, they have to be somewhere. Any clue what part of the lake they are in this time of year? Any help would be appreciated.

Try locating the corp brush piles about 30 ft down

Originally Posted by salineriverramb

Try locating the corp brush piles about 30 ft down

On many lakes the brush piles this time of year hold fish but on Roberts I have not found that to be very true. The ones that are in piles are burried in them but at least in my experience once the water temp gets to about 52 degrees, the piles for the most part are dead. I catch a few here and there but thats it. Last Saturday just for grins I fished probably 18 to 20 piles from 18' to 52' and everywhere in between and not one crappie to be had. I found a handful of single crappie under the Lone Oak bridge but thats it. From March to Oct (daylight savings time) I fish that lake about 4-5 days a week (I live 2 miles from the ramp) and there is very little structure I don't know about and I see thousands of crappie on any given afternoon stacked up on the piles so I know they are piled up somewhere, they don't just disappear but where they go, I can't figure out. I used to live on Fork, I never had a problem in the winter there, on Lavon, they went way up the creeks by mid-late Dec and were easy to find, this is the first lake I have had real issues finding good number in the winter and this is my 4th winter to fish it and I am still in the same boat, tough to find any numbers of fish right now. If anyone knows where they go in good numbers, I would love to know about it. Even if they don't want to bite, there has to be stacks of them somewhere to find on the livescope and I have yet to see it.

Thank you Sir!

That is one place I ran out of time and did not get to go up into. Dang it. I considered it but took a gamble and went up the West leg instead. Next trip I will give it a shot. I suspect they will only continue to go further up there now that it is cold so if they are there they should be somewhat cornered....

Thanks,
Greg

i been getting reports about them up there for weeks now .
i imagine they will stay up in there to some degree for a good while .
they spawn up in that area well in the spring too
there is a good chance they are stacked up under one of those bridges up there .

Thanks again, it will be another week before I can get back out but I will hit that area next time because I can confirm with confidence there are few if any on the main lake right now...

Originally Posted by fishingreg

Thanks again, it will be another week before I can get back out but I will hit that area next time because I can confirm with confidence there are few if any on the main lake right now...

some lakes around here darn near empty out on the main lake in the winter .
my bud is on a creek/river at a a different lake right now as i type
and if you saw what he is finding on his graph it would cause a mental breakdown .
fish literally stacked up in big tree like formations in 20 foot of water
rows and rows of them and from the bottom to about 4 foot under the surface .
he said there are others on them to and limits are flying in the boats so fast its hard to count them .
no small fish no extra large fish just herds and herds of 11 to 13 inchers .
wish i could go out there with him
it makes me Krazy errrr when i am work and he sends me those graph pictures