Good choice right there and you could watch the Buckeyes on Friday nights and could eat at Doc's Hot Links.

No doubt! The football is good there and docs hot links are a must when ever I'm there!

lake leon dont fluctuate much like the others sir
being a lake without a water control makes it a nice place
I can imagine the property being somewhat affordable as well
but to be sure east texas lakes have a lot of BIG crappie
that's a very difficult question to answer

Take a look at Tyler, Tx. Very nice large town with excellent medical facilities and small city feel. Less than an hour from Lakes Palestine, Tyler, Tawakoni, Fork, Cedar Creek, and several others. Fishing is fair to excellent in most of them.

If you like to play golf with your fishing, Tyler area has lots of courses, and several golfing communities.

Lakes Fork and Tawakoni are two of the best fishing lakes in Texas for Bass and Crappie. Tawakoni also is tops for Stripers and Striper Hybrids. All of the larger lakes also have good White Bass fishing.

Personally, I wouldn't live in lakefront property. There's way too much maintenance and upkeep. I did that for 15 years and now live a half block off of the water.

Tyler is just a good area of the state to be in.

If I ever have the chance to do so I would be close as I could get to Texoma. I am just north of Tawakoni now.

Lake Fork
Cypress Springs
Palestine
Murvaul
Toledo Bend

I am compiling a list with hash marks to see which is the most often mentioned. I will post results later. It's not too late to weigh in on where you would like to live.
Thanks again for your time. Randy in Alabama

Age will slow you down, as I've learnt. It becomes not only hard to launch but to enter a boat. So you fish docks, barges or buy a pontoon. Then you discover that a slip big enough for a pontoon can be expensive every month.

Water level is a key point to watch. Lake levels are going to be problems until they get this growth under control or decide to spend the tax money to resolve the water problem caused by continued growth.

Too many people want a free lunch today. They don't want to pay taxes to create and maintain infrastructure but they want the benefits of that infrastructure.

So before I bought lakefront property I would be looking at waters plans for the area for the next twenty years.

Doesn't help to spend the money for a dock, only to have the dock on dry land two years later.

Buddy of mine rents a place every winter just below the Inks Lake Dam on the Colorado River (leads to Lake LBJ). Said the crappie just about jumped in his boat the past couple months. Inks Lake is constant level and on the north is Lake Buchanan....LBJ and rest of the Highland Lakes downstream. It is truly hard to beat the scenery there.

Richland Chambers is also a great Lake to look at. If you like the Hill Country, check out the Marble Falls/Burnet/Granite Shoals/Kingsland area near Inks Lake. If East Texas suits you better I would look at Richland Chambers....big water and pretty country with good fishing from what I have been told.

Haven't fished RC but have fished Inks Lake and it has been great....doesn't get much prettier than the Inks Lake area.