| If you are looking for crappie hot spots, look no | | | | 423-acre Eisenhower State Park, with beautiful |
| further than the state of Texas. With its huge | | | | campsites. However, as crappie hot spots go, this |
| size and many lakes, you know there is plenty of | | | | is a great place to be, especially for night fishing |
| choice for preferred fishing locations, and you'll | | | | off the lighted fishing pier. Cooper Lake State |
| never run out of options or locations for taking a | | | | Park consists of 19,000 acres of impoundment |
| weekend fishing trip. Your excursions could take | | | | near Cooper and is known for crappie as well as |
| you to several different areas of Texas, each of | | | | bass, catfish, and hybrids. If you are looking for |
| which boasts several excellent crappie hot spots | | | | crappie hot spots, try fishing along "the wall" at |
| all its own. | | | | Heron Harbor in the South Sulphur Unit. |
| Start with Texas state parks, under the | | | | While there is not an abundance of crappie hot |
| supervision of the Texas Parks and Wildlife | | | | spots in the Houston metro area, you can find a |
| Division. More than 70 state parks participate in | | | | few nice fishing holes. Try your hand at Brazos |
| the Family Fishing Celebration, and within state | | | | Bend State Park, near Needville, where there are |
| parks, you are not required to carry a fishing | | | | three small lakes producing plenty of crappie and |
| license as you are outside the boundaries. Note | | | | other sunfish, including Elm and Hale Lakes, 40 |
| that managers and biologists with the TPWD are | | | | acres, where it is recommended you fish off the |
| free with their knowledge and will give suggestions | | | | piers due to large populations of alligators in the |
| on the best lakes to fish as well as tips for | | | | lakes. |
| guaranteeing a good catch. | | | | In the Austin area, Inks Lake State Park near |
| In the Dallas/Fort Worth area, Lake Ray Roberts | | | | Burnet is an unbelievable crappie hot spot, due |
| near Pilot Point is a state park and a well-known | | | | partly to little pressure on the lake. According to |
| crappie hot spot. It consists of 30,000 acres and | | | | park management, just about anyone with a pole |
| has a hotel and restaurant in the Jordan unit of | | | | can expect a good catch. Bank fishing is excellent |
| the lake. Largemouth bass is a greatly | | | | all over the park, and you can rent canoes or |
| concentrated species that attracts a lot of | | | | kayaks from the park store. As a bonus, the hill |
| fishermen, but anglers also do quite well with | | | | country surrounding the park is unbelievably |
| crappie. Near Denison, you'll find the smaller | | | | gorgeous. |