Gone Fishing: These Are The Best Places To Go Fishing In Texas In Early May

If you are like me, fishing is something you enjoy doing and right now is a perfect time to go to one of your favorite lakes and fish.

Recent storms have filled up lakes around Texas and with temperatures still feeling good outside, May is a great time to grab the tackle box and head out fishing for a few hours or even a few days if you can get away. But where are some of the best places to fish right now in Texas? And is your favorite spot good right now. Thanks to our friends at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, all that information and more is at your fingertips.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Puts Out a Weekly Fishing Report

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department makes it easy to find a great place to fish with their Weekly Fishing Reports. The Weekly Fishing Reports come from people on the ground across Texas and it is divided into regions.

The Lakes in Texas You Should be Fishing At

Alan Henry

FAIR. Water clear; 71 degrees; 1.13 feet below pool. Crappie are good in 12-33 feet on jigs and minnows. Report by The Bait Shop, Post, Texas.

Brownwood

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 74 degrees; 0.46 feet above pool. Black bass to 7.76 lbs are Slow in 3-15 feet of water with fish moving off shore on a drop shot Hag’s Tornados in green pumpkin, outlier frog and Spinner baits. Some bass are guarding Fry and most are post spawn and a few are into an early summer pattern. Crappie are slow to 12 inches on jigs in 2-10 feet. White bass are excellent to 2 pounds on crankbaits out of the lights at night. Catfish are slow on prepared bait, nightcrawlers and chicken livers.

Joe Pool

GREAT. Water normal stain; 68 degrees; 2.00 above pool. Bass are at the end of the spawn. It is now time for the shad spawn, and topwater season. Target bass at the mouth of spawning areas and the first major piece of structure nearby. Crappie are still being caught shallow on jigs and minnows. The banks of Lynn Creek Park has been the hot spot if you like to catch carp, some catfish are mixed in. Be cautious of the weather as storms have been rolling in Report by Gilbert Miller, GTB Outdoors.

Nasworthy

FAIR. Water slightly stained; 79 degrees. 0.01 feet below pool. The bass bite has been good flipping soft plastics around reed bases in 1-3 feet of water. The spawn is ending and bass are staying in the shallows as the water temperature rises to the 80s. The key is to cover water until you find a good stretch that holds multiple bass. Focus on holes in the reed banks where bass will set up on their beds. Watch for balls of bass fry because a fry guarder will be close by. Crappie were fair around main lake boat docks on chartreuse jigs and catfish were fair on cut bait and stink bait around river channel bends. Report provided by the Angelo State Fishing Team.

And you can view many, many more lakes from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and their fishing report.

So get out this weekend and enjoy the great outdoors and one of our great Texas lakes.