Panhandle Plains Region Week of March 27, 2024

Alan Henry
GOOD. Water clear; 59 degrees; 4.38 feet below pool. Crappie good on minnows in 18-28 feet of water. Report by The Bait Shop, Post, Texas.
Arrowhead
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 57 degrees; 8.24 feet below pool. Fishing patterns are holding steady for Peter Cottontail this weekend. Catfish are good in 2-10 feet of water on fresh cut gizzard shad. Crappie fishing is good at the dam and around the bridges on black and chartreuse jigs. Report by Brandon Brown, Brown’s Guide Service.
Cisco
GOOD. Water stained; 58 degrees; 11.52 feet below pool. Channel catfish are good off the bank. Crappie are good off the docks with many undersized catches. Largemouth bass are good. Reports of good sand bass catches on the northwest side of the lake off a dock. Report by Lake Cisco Rentals.
Coleman
SLOW. Water stained; 55 degrees; 9.19 feet below pool. Fishing patterns are holding steady the first week of spring. Crappie are good on jigs at the docks.
Ft. Phantom Hill
GOOD. Water stained; 63 degrees; 6.70 feet below pool. Bass are good hitting 7 inch curly tailed or straight worms, spinnerbaits and crankbaits in less than 10 feet of water. Crappie are in a pre-spawn. Catfish can be caught drifting. Hybrids are good throwing umbrella rigs into schools. Report by Camron Wilkerson, Camron’s Quality Crappie Guiding.
Greenbelt
SLOW. Water normal stain; 55 degrees; 46.12 feet below pool. Few anglers and reports while the lake level is low.
Hubbard Creek
GOOD. Water Stained; 64 degrees; 11.93 feet below pool. Bass are still in a post-spawn in 5-10 feet of water hitting crankbaits, shaky heads spinnerbaits and Carolina rigs. Crappie are up the creeks on minnows or jigs. Catfish can be caugh drifting shallow flats. Report by Camron Wilkerson, Camron’s Quality Crappie Guiding.
Meredith
FAIR. Water stained; 49 degrees; 45.35 feet below pool. Happy Spring! The bite is getting better everyday. Hearing more and more of fish being caught. Couple of nice largemouths and of course the walleye. Bass are fair to good on minnows and artificials. Catfish are fair on crawlers, minnows, chicken liver and frozen shad. Crappie are fair on artificial baits and minnows. White bass are good on minnows, slabs, or any vertical presentations. Trout are good on power baits, minnows, worms, small spinners, spoons and flies. Walleye are good to excellent on minnows, grubs, and other artificials. Please be safe out there, watch weather reports. Life vests saves lives. Report by Kenneth Wysong, SharKens Honey Hole.
Millers Creek
SLOW. Water stained; 60 degrees; 8.44 feet below pool. Due to low lake levels few anglers are on the water. Crappie and catfish are slow with a few bites near the dam.
Nasworthy
FAIR. Water slightly stained; 66 degrees. 0.42 feet below pool. Bass are good on red chatterbaits flipping soft plastics in the reeds in 1-3 feet of water. Look for spawning bass shallow. Crappie are good around boat docks on chartreuse jigs and catfish were fair on cut bait and stink bait around the dam. Report provided by the Angelo State Fishing Team.
O.C. Fisher
SLOW. Water stained; 55 degrees; 51.52 feet below pool. Few reports and anglers fishing due to low lake levels.
O.H. Ivie
GOOD. Water stained; 63 degrees; 31.25 feet below pool. Bass are good in 2-5 feet of water on spinnerbaits and chatterbaits. Females are close to spawning. White bass are moving up the rivers hitting rattletraps, and squarebill crankbaits. Crappie are scattered but starting to move shallow biting crappie minnows or jigs. Catfish are moving shallow to 5-10 feet of water biting shrimp, cut shad and earthworms. Main lake 58 degrees and clear, up the river is 61 degrees and stained. Report by Wendell Ramsey, Ramsey Fishing.
Oak Creek
SLOW. Water lightly stained; 60 degrees; 16.19 feet below pool. Male bass are on beds, the females are still staging on points preparing to move shallow. The crappie are spawning in heavy cover. They are in shallow water. The catfish bite has been moderate. Report by Bronte Guns and Tackle Pro Staff.
Possum Kingdom
FAIR. Water clear; 61 degrees; 0.08 feet below pool. Striped bass are fair in 20-40 feet of water and live bait is the bestway to catch them at the moment. Sand bass are fair to good. Sandies are looking to spawn transitioning up the creeks and rivers. Look for fish in 2-20 feet of water with live shad, small slabs and jigs. White, and silver are good colors. Catfish are good on cut shad in 5-15 feet of water. Water clarity is steady at 4-10 feet of visibility. Report by TJ Ranft, Ranft Guide Service.
Proctor
GOOD. Water normal stain; 65 degrees; 12.10 feet below pool. Reports of decent size catfish and crappie catches near the dam. Largemouth bass can be caught on soft plastics. Ramps are closed. It is possible to launch a boat from the gravel at Buffalo Springs.
Spence
SLOW. Water stained; 60 degrees. 47.64 feet below pool. 61 degrees. The white bass are being caught near the dam in good numbers. They are being caught on spoons and lipless crank baits in 6-12 feet of water. The black bass bite is starting to improve with some fish being caught in the 3-4 pound range. There has been no spawning activity reported. The fish being caught are on deep diving crank baits. Report by Bronte Guns and Tackle Pro Staff.
Stamford
SLOW. Water slightly stained; 59 degrees; 3.18 feet below pool. Fishing should improve with the warmer weather in the forecast. Bass are slow casting into shallow water in the coves. Crappie are slow to fair at the crappie house and in the shallow water but should improve as the water temperature warms.
Twin Buttes
SLOW. Water stained. 65 degrees; 32.77 feet below pool. Cold front heading in the weekend that will slow the bite. Channel catfish are slow in shallow water hitting fresh shad and prepared cheese baits. Cappie are slow in 3-5 feet of water using jigs or live minnows. Still waiting on the water temperature to be around 68 degrees for the spawn. White bass are further up the creeks and rivers hitting flashy and shiny jigging spoons or live minnows. Not seeing in topwater action just yet. Report by Captain Michael Peterson, 4 Reel Fun Guide Service.
White River
SLOW. Water normal stain; 55 degrees; 19.35 feet below pool. Crappie and catfish are being caught on minnows and worms from the docks or banks.

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