The lake is going down some, 12 inches in last 10 days, . What little crappie fishing I do is with miners or jigs, green/white combo or just solid colors. In the back of Alley creek stumps and creeks to fish around. The cats are good on catfish charlie or worms. We usually use Range Cubes for chum for cats, dump coffe can full and let set 30 minutes. about all I have for now. good luck. Our place is straight across lake from Alley creek, you can look across and see a cement intake tower that intake for city water in Longview. good cats out in front of it also and few crappie.