Squaw Creek will not open in January. The current opening date is now February 12, 2021 and may be delayed again. Here is the post on their page:

Luminant has delayed the reopening of Squaw Creek until February 12th 2021 at a minimum with a validation of this date in January 2021 based on current COVID-19 protocols/projections. Please check this page for future updates.

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Hopefully they open, want to wet a line there someday!

You would do well there. There are lots of 15 to 20 pound carp in Squaw.

Don't get your hopes up. After 9/11, they kept it closed for 10 years. It may take 20 to open it back up from this hoax called a "pandemic".

do employees still fish there when closed,..?

I would be shocked if they were not fishing

A friend who works their fishes a honey from the bank and went out once in a boat during the summer. In the boat they caught one fish. They thought they would kill them since the lake had not been fished in months but that was not the case. If they do fish it is very rare since they working most of the time..The honey hole usually fishes good during the summer months but not this summer.. Only big fish caught out of it..

I am sure the tilapia are doing very well.

job perks

they will let you know when the peasants can come back to the lake that i think tp&w stocked.

Let me take the “think” out of the equation for you. Now you know: https://tpwd.texas.gov/fishboat/fish/action/stock_bywater.php?WB_code=0690

I did not know that stocked it with smallies.. Never caught one out of there.. They have not stocked it in a while..

We had a 22# bag out of there in 99 with only one large mouth in it. It had good smallies in it

Before the plant came online it was a good smallmouth lake. It had a lot of walleye also