I am still concerned about eating anything that comes out of this lake; catch and release only. Because of the states caution - I stay away from this one.

Looking to get out and fish the bridges in the near future. Hope they show up soon.

Checked tpwd site and the ban has been lifted. Only mentions the catfish and carp now. Talked to some other people, and they eat all the crappie they catch.

I fished some coves the other day and caught a few crappie and a white bass. Caught 2 nice size channel cats, that was a fun fight on light tackle. Tried the bridges, but couldn't find anything there.

I'm thinking about trying again this weekend for some crappie. What kind of bait? Had decent luck on minnows.

Ahhh Lake Worth, some good memoies out there. This is the lake that got me hook'ed on fishing. My grandfather would take me out to the old fishing barge they use to have back in the mid 80's. We would slay crappie all night long.

It was here were my grandfather also disowned me as his fishing grandchild. I switched from minnows to crappie jigs and small flys. I remember him pushing me in the water our last fishing trip to LW together because I was talking smack to the old man on how much more fish I caught than he did by useing the plastic method.

Back on subject. I know the ban was lifted recently on everything but catfish, buffalo and carp. No worries as i have never targeted these fish. So in the morning I think I will take my GF out to the 820 bridge and see if we can dig up some morning slabs.

I was using jigs under a float about a 1 1/2 to 2 ft. Every time I go there is 3 guys on the courtesy dock with a basket full of crappie. I might just fish with them next time, they do better than I do.

I will look for the 3 guys and memic there actions

Using jigs with the floats...do you let the crappie take the float under water and then slowly reel in? Or do you let the float pull and then immediately reel in? We kept getting crappie hits with plastic shadst..no matter how slow we went we could not set the hook. I think we should have used a bobber instead of a 1/4 oz jig head hook..Any advice?

1/4 oz sounds kinda heavy, I think our was smaller. I was using the electric chicken color. Didn't have a problem setting the hook, in fact I caught one crappie about 3 inches long.

Heading to LW now.. should be there around 4ish. 820 Bridge area.... Purple TCU shirt beating up the banks.

So hiw did you do? Heard there was some activity on the bank in one of the parks around the lake.

Update: 4/15/15

Time 4:00pm till 8:00Pm
Water:Stained
Wind: Out of the south 5-15 MPH
Sunny
Location: 820 Bridge and 199 Bridge

First off let me start by saying, man I need a boat:)
When I first got there I talked with some boaters who were saying they were catching crappie in 2-15 feet of water. I spoke with several of them and all word of mouth was the same. One fella even showed me some of his fish, and a pretty decent catch he had. So I busted out my wading shoes and off I went.

The 820 bridge from the bank don't have a lot of options as to were to fish, so I beat the short bank line and floating dock the best I could. In the 2 hours I spent there I managed to drag in 4 crappie and one bass. All fish was caught off Black Chartreuse 1 1/2 inch Crappie Ringers suspended 1 foot under a bobber.

Moved to the 199 bridge area and after trashing around in the brush I found a few spots to cast around. Caught 3 more Crappie and a few perch using the same set-up. Called it quits at 8:00pm.

So In Total:
Crappie: 7 (2 Keepers)
Bass: 1 (Dink)
Perch: 1

Bait: Black Chartreuse 1 1/2 inch Crappie Ringers suspended 1 foot under a bobber.

***Notes***
From what I heard from our fellow fisherman the Crappie are finally starting to move shallow. You guys get ready should be getting hot.

Thanks
John Bowman

Be careful wading that lake, there are alligators in it LOL

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