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Just a curious question, not looking for spots. What is your favorite crappie lake (or lakes) in the DFW area? I have found Lake Lavon to be my current favorite with lighter boat traffic, good access, and abundant crappie. But seems to have limited fishable creeks. Have been on Ray Hubbard several times recently but many more pleasure cruisers and jet skis. More success there with bass than crappie.
Several lake produce well JP, lake worth, Bardwell,
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for numbers of fish , lake worth
no hard core crappie angling there
no deep water and limited cover
buy you a lake permit before you launch there though
they will write you a ticket for not having one
they also patrol the heck out of that lake
best be 100% perfect legal when you visit
the docks there are just about so full of fish it ain't reality , you can sit on one sometimes
and just get tired of ketchn crappie ....
That sounds like an amazing fishery
pretty tough to beat for in town , due to the bad press on that lake and the air station there polluting the heck out of it back when , little to no one fishes it hard and to be sure it is loaded with fish .Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
it was at one time back when one of the most popular crappie stops in the area ,with tons of fish camps and so on and so forth .
now it is just a lake with very little in the way of crappie anglers visiting it and to be sure it is a ketch festival .
I am glad it is cleaned up and the fish population is doing well
Not familiar with Lake Worth. Sounds quite interesting. Mostly keeper size or dinks?
right now the big fish are playful in there , the black crappie pretty much always run in herds ,but never really large , the white crappie get rather nice in there and it is a shallow lake , not much over 15 foot deep and not much for cover .Quote:
Originally Posted by FishCrank
once you know where to look and which docks are winners and the scarce brush piles and such , big fish are pretty good most of the time .
How is the boat ramp by 820? Or would you put in somewhere else?
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it is about always the best ramp , 3 wide and launches nicelyQuote:
Originally Posted by TXPanfisher
up on the north side it is also wide and not bad either
but I don't use that one as much
the lake sheriff boat dock is right beside that ramp on the north side too
so of course you will get checked way more often over there
one of them checked my credentials 3 times in 3 weeks
kind of a needless distraction and i asked him why he kept checking me :dono
told me he didnt remember me and said he checks hundreds a week ....:yikes
be sure to get a lake worth permit on your trailer , or else you might come back to a ticket on your wind shield , just saying
My favorite is Lake Lavon. It has large white crappie and find it pretty easy to fish. I need to learn Ray Hubbard because it is 10 minutes from my front door. You seldom see crappie fisherman unless you their under the bridge. There is timber on that lake that never sees a jig. I typically drive right over it when heading for Lake Tawakoni. Lewisville would be my second choice for DFW lakes. Nice crappie in that lake and lots of spots to fish.
The lake I'm fishing on that day. The last few years it has been Joe Pool Lake but this year I hope to have several new favorite lakes. :)
Tawakoni is a really good lake for football crappie, the winter deep water dam bite is stupid goodQuote:
Originally Posted by Grainraiser
Lewisville is really good too sometimes ,fisheries biologist once told me he trapped 50 in one night in a trap all over 2 lbs ....:yikes
Ray Hubbard is likely decent but like stated no one really hits it much ? :dono
Lavon is well known for numbers of quality fish too .