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 closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/10/15 11:08 PM
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slshaneus
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i want to bring my dad fishing to try to catch some smallies, what lake is closest to texas with good population of smallies?
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08/10/15 11:14 PM
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shotgunwilly
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Lake Belton has a pretty good population of smallies. Texoma also.
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/10/15 11:14 PM
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RMOROTT21
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Murray in Oklahoma or texoma
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/10/15 11:25 PM
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slshaneus
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/10/15 11:42 PM
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Mark Perry
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Bridgeport has some decent ones.
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/11/15 12:45 AM
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hawghoover
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i caught 2 4 pound small mouth on Grapevine this past March.
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/11/15 12:59 AM
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bassdoode
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grapevine, texoma, lake whitney, belton, bridgeport all have smallmouth and i'm sure plenty more in texas do. the problem with smallmouth fishing is its hard to target them. they live in the same areas and eat the same things. to truely target them you have to go to a fishery that has a great population of smallmouth in correlation to the largemouth. good luck!
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/11/15 01:04 AM
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Tyler.Woods
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Belton has a good population of them. We caught over 20 one day just beating the banks
Send it!
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08/11/15 12:58 PM
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hopalong
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murray, texoma, broken bow all have some good smallmouth populations, broken bow would be my first pick for some biguns.
murray down by the dam area is always good, texoma (if you can launch there yet) up by the river, fish riprap, main lake OKIE side up at the railroad bridge riprap has some good fish too.
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/11/15 01:04 PM
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361V
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 Wheeler Branch in Glen Rose has some.
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/11/15 01:10 PM
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ou.sooner
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08/11/15 01:27 PM
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Dan90210 ☮
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Had no idea they had stocked so many! Great lake for them based on the type of cover, or lack of. Have yet to catch one. Caught several spots there but no SMB. Maybe my time is soon.
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08/11/15 02:07 PM
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texasbassdude
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If you're up for a canoe/river deal, I've heard that below the Whitney dam on the Brazos is dyn-o-mite for smallies.
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/11/15 03:15 PM
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Whitney,wheeler,Belton,steelhouse,Bridgeport,grapevine,and texoma. I bet there are more.
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Re: closest smallmouth lake to texas?
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08/11/15 08:05 PM
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catslayer
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belton, grapevine, texoma... texoma would be my go too....
all the Colorado river lakes have them..
I havn't heard of one caught at Whitney in a LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGGGG time... and i live close and family keeps a boat there.
If you are driving somewhere to target them, Whitney is not the place
Last edited by catslayer; 08/11/15 08:06 PM.
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