Best Texas Smallmouth Lakes

[SkeetyCCTX]

Hows it going?  Anyways, I live down in south TX and mostly fish Trophy LMB lakes like Choke Canyon and Falcon.  However, I have a true love and fascination for smallmouth bass fishing!  I absolutely love smallmouth and try to fish for them any chance I get, wheren lies the problem, there arent too many smallie lakes in TX!

However, I have found a handfull of pretty darn good smallie lakes over the past several years, such as Belton and Canyon; and I have heard very good things about Texoma, Whitney, and Merideth.  All of these lakes have record smallies of over 6.5 lbs and several of them have records of over 7 lbs!

In my trips to Belton and Canyon I have always had no trouble catching decent numbers of smallmouths, and have found many fish in the 2-3 lb range!

Now, what Im asking you guys, is for any imput you may have on good smallie lakes in TX.  Im not talking about lakes that jsut have a few in em, but lakes that actually have catchable numbers where you can go out and target them with success on a regular day!

Dont worry about giving away your secrete place because I probably wont fish your lake but maybe once a year, and I always catch and release!

[Matt Fly]

Whitney has been hurt numerous times with the Golden Algae blooms that have plagued the Brazos river system off and on for the last 5 years.   Major fish kills in the rivers above Whitney.   Possum Kingdom also is up river and experiences the same.

  Meredith and Whitney was the big dog in Texas for years with the majority of top 50 smallies from those two lakes primarily, I believe Whitney held the record the longest, now Meredith own that honor.

    On a side note, smallies are showing up at OH Ivie and doing well. 

    I'd have to say Texoma is the better lake for smallies. 

How are the smallies in the Devil river arm of Amistad?

[SkeetyCCTX]

I hear that Belton and Temoma are the hottest smallie lakes in tX right now by a lot of anglers.  However, tPWD resources go on and on about smallie fishing in Whitney and Merideth though I hear bad thing about fish kills at Whitney by anglers.

As for Amistad, it has smallies but I think it is a little warm most of the year for them to do super good.  There record is only a tad over 5 lbs!

Now, the most underrated smallie lake in TX is Canyon Lake.  Most think of this as a boating lake but it is absolutely loaded with smallies!  Many fish in the 3-4 lb range and I have seen several over 5 lbs!  Lake record is about 6.5 lbs.  Everytime I go I do very well and get a limmit of them!