Caddo Lake. Lake Texoma. Lake O’ the Pines. Lake Travis. Best Bass Fishing Lakes in Texas: The Top 5 1. Lake Fork. Tournament anglers work a stretch of flooded timber on Lake Fork.

Beveal’s fish ranks as the No. 20 biggest Texas bass of all-time and bumps Keith Burns’ Caddo Lake 16.17 pounder to the No. 21 spot. It’s the fifth top 20 bass record at O.H. Ivie since 2021.

Athens — SLOW. Water stained; 59-63 degrees; 0.47 feet above pool. Bass are scattered in the shallows and can be caught throwing topwaters and spinnerbaits on windy banks. Crappie are scattered ...

Athens — SLOW. Water clear; 51-54 degrees; 0.53 feet below pool. Bass are slow on deep structure out to 25 feet on brush and breaks using jigs, Carolina rigged worms, ...

Tyler — GOOD. Water normal stain; 80 degrees; 0.43 feet above pool. Crappie are good on brush piles with minnows and jigs in 10-16 feet of water. Catfish are good ...

Unlike cheerful Toledo Bend Reservoir to the south, where bass fishermen and families frolic in the sun, 27,000-acre Caddo ...