Top 5 Toughest Lakes

All my fishin buds and I are arguing about what the Top 5 Toughest lakes are in Texas now. What do y'all think?

Ray Roberts.

1. LAKE X
2. Raybob
3.pines
4.Joe pool
5.tawak

Joe Pool, O H Ivy, Austin, Ray Roberts and Alan Henry can all make you look stupid.

Don't forget Belton, Stillhouse, Georgetown, Canyon....

Belton and canyon for sure

Any 5 I choose to fish.

Thats my thoughts exactly.

PK, Granbury, and Whitney

Ray Roberts
Cooper
Belton
Worth
Joe Pool

aquilla
belton
stillhouse
mexia
richland chambers when the sun gets up.

Benbrook is the toughest lake I've ever fished.

Lewisville
Ray Roberts
Joe Pool
Arlington
O.H. Ivie

Joe Pool is easiest guys !!

Ray Roberts.

Ray roberts!! Last 2 times i went to ray bob i caught about 35 fish in two day..

I think; Limestone, Conroe, Somerville, Livingston and Richland Chambers...as my toughest challenges.

Joe pool ray and anything on the brazos chain

I win .......Fairfield.........there all dead

Alan Henry
PK
Belton
Worth
Hubbard Creek

Belton, Belton, Belton, Belton, Stillhouse!

Lake Alan Henry can humbel even the best of Fishermen.

Everyone says belton but I love it. Fairfield for me

Conroe is the first that comes to mind for me....I have a love/hate relationship with that lake.

Ray Roberts
Ray Roberts
Ray Roberts
Ray Roberts
Ray Roberts

+1

Alan Henry gets me every time.

Amistad has been pretty terrible the last few yrs. You can win most tournaments down there with 15-16lbs. A couple of yrs ago 11lbs and change won a tourney with 40+ boats.

I read all comments and didn't see Lake Dunlap on there, thats a tuff lake on a good or bad day...

PK, Lewisville, Grapevine, Eagle Mountain, Granbury. Probably because I seem to fish all of these to early.

Surpised to see Ray Roberts, Limestone, and amistad on the list! I really like all of those.

O.C. Fisher

Ray Roberts.. tough? Come on now!

I'm gonna guess a lot of yall have never been to wright patman, if u have, that lake would be the top of yalls list, it can get really tough, not only the fishing is tough but running the lake can be tough for how shallow it stays

LOL

For you folks enjoying success at your favorite lake congrats. Personally I do well on most lakes but Alan Henry kicks my butt! If your good come on over and be humbled, I will join you and perhaps figure this out. If your not good we will tie at days end

I got skunked at O.H. IVIE this weekend.

choke canyon
Mathis ( lake Corpus Christi ) to low to get a boat in
Falcon if you go expecting it to be what it was a year ago.

Lewisville isnt that tough to put a 5 fish stringer together.
It might only be 10lbs but its not that tough. It isnt as tough on me as Roberts for sure.

then why could 1 fish get you in the money for BASS Open, especially on the coangler side.

Because it's been frickin cold as heck both times they've been there. It's a mudhole lake, they always fish bad when the weather is nasty.

arlington has been my toughest challenge. grew up minutes from there and still cant catch em like i like

Fish the dam at Arlington with deep divers and long line 'em parallel to the rocks.

Mathis is on fire right now.....at least it was Sunday. My parents have a lake house on the waters edge.....at least where the water used to be and sent a few pics.

Navarro Mills...a mudhole for Bass

Alan henry is tough to figure out! Even the guides have a hard time finding fish!

Conroe, I think I get skunked more than anything, and I live right by the lake and fish it all the time, But it eats me up most the time.

Joe pool for me, tough to catch anything over 10"

joe pool ain't that tough just gotta find the baitfish

Benbrook,Hate it!!!!

I have to defend my Joe Pool,,, I caught 3 over 9 there this year, and average 15 fish a day although there are lots of short fish...MY TOUGHEST LAKES ARE...Fork even though she's my fav(I had a tough year with the long turnover)..Raybob is either on fire or dead water..Lewisville is tough for some reason (AND THERE IS ALOT of fish there).. Cedar Creek (post spawn)..#1 Ray Hubbard (out of the river)

With me it was any metro lake, I fished Lavon, Joe Pool, Ray Hubbard, Grapevine, and Lewisville......they all delt me misery......I know its just a different style of fishing and once I get the "feel" of these I'd be good to go. I'm just used to fishing flooded cypress lakes and rivers and these lakes are different from that. I struggled for a litle while on Fork too but seat time changed that as well........

aquilla, fairfield, ditto, ditto, ditto

Lewisville

Aquilla is usually an easy lake.... most always can catch fish there and nice size fish.... I like Aquilla.

If there are lakes tougher than Whitney has been this past summer, I don't want to fish them.

Any lake I fish at......
1. Medina (could get really tough if the lake dries up completely!)
2. Canyon (are there any big fish in there?)
3. LBJ (dodging skiers in the summer...)

I haven't been around that much but that is my short list.

Benbrook
Worth
Ray Roberts (only because I have been out there once)
Fork

Alan Henry is killer because you have this idea you might catch a hog on any cast, only to have your hopes crushed almost every time. Just when your about to quit, it might give you that good fish to make you drag out the pain for another year.

Hard to complain though. That lake has been pretty good to me over the years.

PROCTOR!

Alan Henry gets my vote hands down. I have fished it multiple times a month for four years straight now and I still get skunked sometimes. The only thing that keeps me going back all the time is that occasional giant you catch that makes it all worth it. My next 4 lakes are OH Ivie, Conroe, Rayburn (trying to catch anything over 10"), and Caddo at times.

Richland Chambers is the only lake that has skunked me every time I go. I think there is a curse on that place!

Joining the crowd in saying RAY ROBERTS! Gets the best of me every time.

You guys talking about how tough the lakes are in the DFW area need to head down to Houston to fish Texana and Houston.

Tyler you have caught 1 fish doing this hahah

STOP telling people how to fish pool!!!!!!!

Belton....home of the 13.5" bass

Lake Lavon treats me really bad.

Better add Conroe to that! I Like that Conroe is tough, it keeps me humble!haha

I hear a lot of people have trouble at falcon, both with numbers and size.....

For those that have trouble with Alan Henry, drop me a line or take me with you. I hvae been VERY lucky on that lake, haven't zeroed at all, even when fishing from the bank. Of course, I still need to get the video tapes put into DVD form and plots locations so I can sell the DVD. I filmed the lake at 20', 30', 41' and 52 or 53' depths (same GPS location, deepedst part of the lake I found). Looks like there would be quite a demand for it. My uncle used to own Gobbler Creek and I have ridden horses all over the lake. I know where 10 tank dams and 28 springs are located, so, I guess I just get LUCKY at that lake a lot. Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.

Thad Rains

When was the last time you went to Amistad? I guess it proably isnt one of the crappiest lakes, but why drive more than an hour or so to fish it. Look at the tourney results over the last few yrs. You can catch a better sack at a lake within in hour of you. Guranteed!

+1

Houston's good for numbers of small fish, that's about it.

1000's of 10" fish!!!!!

I get my butt kicked more on Conroe than Houston, never blank on houston

If I am not catching keepers I consider that getting my button kicked. Conroe has its tough days but it puts out too many big stringers for me to put it on the list.

Whitney.

PK when to algae is blooming.

Hardly any large sacks come out of Lewisville during most tournaments.

I only saw one mention of Choke Canyon. Must not be many "southerners" on this thread. Or I suck worse than I thought...

Every tournament result I have seen since June has indicated that Choke is just downright awful, so I don't think it is just you.

The past year, Fork has been tough for me. Unless you count sandbass, then I've slayed them.

1. Whitney
2. Cooper
3. P.K.
4. Martin Creek
5. Arlington

Afer today i would have to add Brandy Branch to the list....

I don't even try in lake Houston, and Conroe has baffled me for 5 months now. I think I'm going to just stock my swimming pool.

Lake Belton
Lake Lewsiville
Lake Waco

For clarification purposes...you don't think it's "just" me...or just "me?" There could be feelings at stake.

Most on this forum don't know there is such a place. It's in my top 5 hardest and I grew up fishing it nearly every weekend.

Alan Henry would be my number one. Partly for the fishing, partly for the outrageous price you have to pay to put a boat in it.

True, but i don't think i've ever blanked on houston, ever.

I know I've blanked dozens of times on conroe.

My heaviest Houston stringer is heavier than my heaviest conroe stringer, but my heaviest conroe single fish is heavier than my heaviest housotn fish.

i rarely fish conroe though, and living 3 miles from the ramp at houston, i fish it too much prolly..

Plus on houston i don't have to fight the scarab wakes in the summer..

Is Alan Henry as bad as Eagle Mountain price wise??

Belton
Lewisville
Choke
Canyon

No, apparently they dont have the luxury of fishing: Choke Canyon, Medina Lake & Canyon Lake. Bunch of crybabies dont know what it means to live in the armpit of the fishing world. I'd take Amistad on a bad day over the other 3 on a good day.

I know Choke is no where near what it use to be, but I must suck on Amistad. I use to catch good fish out there. Now all I catch is a boat load of dinks. I feel more confident going out to Canyon to try and catch a 5lber than I do going to Amistad to try and catch one.

FORK no fish,stay away.....lol

Wow, thats hard to believe; I couldnt catch a 5 lber at Canyon if I was using dynamite!

Alan Henry is the suspended bass capital of the world. The conventional methods rarely work here. Catching bass in less than 20 ft of water happens about 8 weeks total on the year. If someone has other observations please pm me and clue me in. I'm a noob with sub-par graphics, but confident in technique. On the other hand, go with me to a playa lake and ill show you how it's done...gotta schedule a guide soon...

Whatever lake I'm on, gaurantees the fish have lockjaw

I could not have stated it better... After you get through beating the bank, turn around and cast on the other side of the boat!!

stillhouse

Alan Henry.... It's amazing how good everything looks and its hard to catch fish.

RAYBOB FOR SURE

Aquila, LBJ, Martin creek

I love how you pitch to the bank and the bait will just pendulum underneath the boat! Bahahaha!

Ray Roberts
Lewisville
Hubbard
PK
Richland Chambers

1. Lake Lewisville - Even BASS stopped coming here. Just look at the weights from the last 4 years of tourneys held there.
2. Ray Roberts - She will play with your mind and make you cry
3. Tawokani . when the lake gets low she can become a much ole quick.

Ray Roberts sure made me look like an idiot this weekend.

Never thought I'd add FALCON, but it has to be on the list. Its super tuff now!!

lake lewisville i think is the least consistant but i think travis can be tough as well

Alan Henry kicked my butt last weekend

Alan Henry kicked my butt last weekend again.

+1 on Ray Roberts

possum Kingdom
Toledo bend
Livingston
Whitney
cooper

1. Ray Bob in winter
2. Cooper
3. Big Creek
4. Joe Pool
5. Lavon

Aquilla and Whitney deserve dis-honorable mention.

They all kick my butt except Amistad. I feel very confident on that lake and always catch them one way or another. Other than that they all stink to me.

#1 Ray Bob
#2 Benbrook
#3 Worth
#4 Amon Carter
#5 Joe Pool

BENBROOK!!!!

PK, Granbury, Lewisville, Roberts(8 months out of the year), Canyon.

Waco

#1. Whitney
#2. P.K.
#3. Whitney
#4. R.C.
#5. Whitney

All can be famine or feast.

Alanhenry is tough but it can be pretty good when it is on, really have to put your time in on her

Canyon lake

Falcon was tough weeks ago, its gotten much better... not as it used to be years ago but I wouldn't say its one of the 5 toughest lakes!

Lewisville and Ray Roberts

Love me some raybob Aquila lbj granburry and even joe pool. But Benbrook I hate that lake I can get from my house to the ramp In five min. And I would rather make an all night drive day trip to falcon. I have a buddy that catches a bunch of big bass out there but idk just can't do it there.

Same here.

I had 7 smallmouth from the bank yesterday. I bet if I was in a boat and could fish more than one small area it woulda been a good day.

Lavon

Stillhouse isn't all that bad. Belton is okay for a goid ol fashioned dinkathon for blackbass however it's a pretty good small mouth fishery. wouldn't be surprised to see a state record smallie out of Belton.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Belton, but then maybe out of towers have a different perspective about this lake.

A ton of people said Belton was tough lol

R,Roberts