Full moon and warm nights. I'll be hitting the bank tomorrow. Hopefully they're there.

I'll be looking shallow in about 6 weeks.

I'm looking,I went and hit some hot spots today in feeder creeks. Nope,full of carp. Seen some shad and life at the mouths. A few black bass and bluegill was all to be caught. We need some rain to get my spots right. Just stagnate dead wood and grasses decomposing. Maybe looking for plan B or C this year. Found some nice bluegills in 21-25' near the creek channels today. That's fun too.

Checked last night at a spot that is usually good, nothing yet, should start in about 2 weeks.

I went to the bar ditch and a small lake. Nada.

A guy at the small lake said water temp was 58-62


What is the magic temp?

Last weekend we were fishing brush at Navarro Mills Marina and were catching them out of a cedar tree that was not even fully covered with water. Maybe 2 feet. Don't know if it's because the brush was New or that The girls are coming to the dance early.

Besides creeks a couple of weeks ago the only place we have found crappie is on the east end of 2 mile bridge in 18 FOW

The lakes will have fish move shallow in the creeks in the end of Feb/ beginning of March especially if the lake has black crappie. The smaller bodies of water will have fish up shallow right now with these temps. I would look in ponds and smaller lakes up shallow and you might be surprised. I caught fish in a small lake up shallow with eggs running out of the females on February 17th last year and they looked like they had been there for a while.

the 28th of february is the earliest ive found them shallow in centex. I wouldnt pay much attention to the water temp... water clarity yes, they dont like clear water. From the eggs ive seen in the last couple weeks, I would guess it will be a couple weeks, to 3 weeks. The biological trigger in the fish decides. Likely abt the time they themselves were spawned.

Went banking this morning. All i caught was ditch pickles. However i did see some people pull a few crappie out. Boater said the watertemp was 62. Wont be long if it keeps rising temps

When the Dogwoods blooms it's time to go, we saw a BIG flock of geese flying north yesterday so I'm hoping in two or three weeks it will be on.

Caught em in 3-8 foot yesterday on jigs... caught probably 25 and 15 keepers. 2 really good ones. Water temp was 64 where I was at.

Kept 15 this morning. 9 FOW lane's frog in Blue winged teal. Eggs varied from bright yellow to orange
Slower today, kept 7, saw a limit at fillet tables in12 FOW on (gasp) minnows

Caught 8 keepers yesterday and 13 this morning all in 1-2 foot of water at the o'l mudhole granger lake dan's jigs (gold digger)

Went to lake XX today, got blown off the water...lone star cat sent a pic of some nice fish up the creek on another lake, so i joined him...All told we counted 33 nice fish...one female was spewing eggs. A couple more looked to be half spawned out. Of all the lakes I try to keep up with, as of last weekend, most fish are in 15-30 ft deep hanging with the shad.

Nothing yet in our slip on Whitney , can't wait. Man that slip jusy pours out crappie , and for the last 5 to 6 weeks Nothing

I tried up in one of my Cedar Creek coves this past Friday in 2-4' with jig/bobber, but no bites yet...dropped back out to brush in 20' and they were there

I would start looking very soon..... probably from now on!
Earliest last year on G was 2-19-16.

I catch all my spawners on brush in 8-16FOW when the water temp is 66�. I don't know why, but that's where they are. It'll be another month here.

Found some. All caught in less than 2 fow. Every fish was a male so females haven't moved in yet but these males sure put up a fight.

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Caught a mess of Whites and 1 black in 3-6 fow yesterday
The BFOTD was a fat female