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Current Temperature:
86°
Est Water Temperature:
52° (What's This)
Barometric Pressure:
29.85 (Falling)
Wind Speed:
South-East at 06 Knots (7 MPH)
Forecast | Trends
86°
Est Water Temperature:
52° (What's This)
Barometric Pressure:
29.85 (Falling)
Wind Speed:
South-East at 06 Knots (7 MPH)
Forecast | Trends
White Rock Lake General Information
Welcome to FishingNotes.com White Rock Lake fishing report page. Here you will find all the information you need to make the best decisions for today's fishing. Current weather including air temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction are continuously updated throughout the day. Vital fishing information for White Rock Lake, including mean water temperature and moon phase. Help in choosing what time to hit the water with daily sunrise and sunset times plus moon rise and moon set times. We would love to hear how your fishing trip went, feel free to share your days success on the community report page. Good luck and we hope you catch a full bag today!
City of Dallas Code of Ordinances Section 32-40 prohibits any "motor having a commercial-power rating in excess of 10.5 H.P." on White Rock Lake, and Section 32-41 makes it illegal to "create an unsanitary condition," to "pollute" the water, to make it "unwholesome or unfit for use," or to "throw or place or deposit any trash, urine, excrement or filth of any kind" in White Rock Lake, or "to deposit or throw any substance of any kind" in White Rock Lake "which will pollute or is likely to pollute the waters." This could be interpretted to prohibit the use of 2-stroke motors on the lake as they discharge oil and gas into the water.
State:
Texas
County:
Dallas
Inpoundment Type:
Lake
Surface Area (acres):
1088
Lake Management:
State Park
Texas
County:
Dallas
Inpoundment Type:
Lake
Surface Area (acres):
1088
Lake Management:
State Park
Latitude:
32.82147024257341
Longitude:
-96.72826766967773
Water Clarity:
0-1 ft
Water Temp Factors:
32.82147024257341
Longitude:
-96.72826766967773
Water Clarity:
0-1 ft
Water Temp Factors:
Maximum Depth (ft):
23
Normal Elevation (ft):
458
Boat Access:
Paved Ramps
Boat Limits:
Trolling Only
23
Normal Elevation (ft):
458
Boat Access:
Paved Ramps
Boat Limits:
Trolling Only
White Rock Lake Largemouth Bass Fishing
[ Largemouth Bass Info ]
White Rock Lake Largemouth Bass Rating:
3.6/5
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White Rock Lake Largemouth Bass Tips: [ Add Tip ]
- Caught several bass this week. On Blue Little George. This morning I caught a 4.5
lb beauty below the bridge south of the Arboretum.
Good Luck.
Bud Wilkes
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lb beauty below the bridge south of the Arboretum.
Good Luck.
Bud Wilkes
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Largemouth Bass Tips for Current Conditions:
Largemouth bass fishing is going to be slow with the water temperature at 52 degrees. If you have a chance to get out on the water, you are going to have to fish deep and slow. Jig fishing and Plastic baits may be your best bet this time of year for largemouth bass. You may also try fishing some sinking jerk baits.
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Community Largemouth Bass Fishing Reports
2012-06-03
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 79
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 79
I fished the west bank cove last week with a lot of luck. i was fishing in my new 12 foot jon boat with a friend. the biggest fish was about 3.5 pounds. we caught most of them on a chatterbait and a jig. We ended up catching 9 fish overall in about 4-5 feet of water in the reeds and grass mats. GOTTA GET THERE FOR THE MORNING BITE!!!We are in a green jon boat with stanley stickers. if you see us give us a holler!!!!
2012-04-17
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature:
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature:
Caught a 13" largemouth while fishing between the boathouse on West Lawther and the footbridge next to the boathouse. I was using a Strike King "Burner" spinnerbait and aiming for the bulrushes on the opposite, western bank.
2012-04-10
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 73
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 73
I caught a small (10" or less) largemouth bass off the fishing pier on Garland Road at about 6:45 p.m. last night. I had watched the barometer drop from 30.22 at 11am to 30.03 at 6pm and decided to hit the lake. I caught him on my first cast (out towards the lake) using a Bomber model 4A crankbait ("moss back craw" color scheme). I threw a few more casts with no success then switched over to crappie baits, also with no success. The guy next to me caught a 15 pound buffalo and another caught 3 crappie (2 keepers and 1 small fish).
2012-03-01
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:
i catched a 15 inches largemouth bass, at dickson branch 2 days ago, with a
jig, but after that no more bites. some suggestions?
White Rock Lake Smallmouth Bass Fishing
[ Smallmouth Bass Info ]
White Rock Lake Smallmouth Bass Rating:
2.4/5
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White Rock Lake Smallmouth Bass Tips: [ Add Tip ]
Smallmouth Bass Tips for Current Conditions:
With the water temperature at 52 degrees smallmouth bass fishing is ready to heat up for spring. The bass will be starting to move into their spawning area. Smallmouth bass will generally spawn on rock and gravel bottoms that are protected from the elements. It's time to get fishing and look for staging bass in deeper water.
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Community Smallmouth Bass Fishing Reports
No Reports are available for White Rock Lake at this time.
White Rock Lake Crappie Fishing
White Rock Lake Crappie Tips: [ Add Tip ]
- In the winter time the crappie school up in the creek North of the lake in huge numbers following the shad. Carey Thorn from TexasOklahomaFishingGuide.com guides there in the dead of winter and catches limits from the bank! We used him last year as guide and highly recommend him. I took my son with me who has never caught a crappie or used a spinning rod, for that matter. We left with 38 slab crappie to 16 inches. Crazy thing was, Carey was targeting them in 3 ft of water in 39 degree weather! We put on polarized glasses and could actually see them.
Other than that, use 4-6 pound mono line. Black/Chart jigs with crappie nibbles are the best thing to use there. Of course the old live minnow trick will do fine, but you will be able to cover more water with jigs is what we learned. Apparently Carey does not start to guide this creek till around Thanksgiving. He said when the water hits about 50 or below, they start the migration up the creek. The colder the better.
A rule people dont really know about this water is, you cant wade in it. Make sure you have a fishing license due to the game wardens patrol the woods waiting for poachers!
Other than that, use 4-6 pound mono line. Black/Chart jigs with crappie nibbles are the best thing to use there. Of course the old live minnow trick will do fine, but you will be able to cover more water with jigs is what we learned. Apparently Carey does not start to guide this creek till around Thanksgiving. He said when the water hits about 50 or below, they start the migration up the creek. The colder the better.
A rule people dont really know about this water is, you cant wade in it. Make sure you have a fishing license due to the game wardens patrol the woods waiting for poachers!
Crappie Tips for Current Conditions:
Crappie should be getting ready to spawn. Stay out in deeper water and look for schools. Schooling shad will be harder to find with this water temperature so when you find it, stay on it. Crappie schools will be breaking up quite a bit getting ready for the spawn. Also try fishing shallower with small crank baits and spinners on the warm banks with direct sunlight. This is a great time to be on the water.
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Community Crappie Fishing Reports
2012-03-04
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 46
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 46
Went this morning around 6:30 on garland road side about 50 yards from the spill way
and caught 16 black crappie each weighing around 2 1/2 to 3 3/4 lbs. All 16" long.I was
using a chartruese/black sparklely tail road runner. I was tossing it along the bank near a
bunch of tree stomps and floating weeds. They where hitting it pretty aggressive and I
even missed a few that got me tangled in between the tree stomps as I was only using 4lb
test spider wire mono with a ultra lite shimano reel
2012-03-04
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 46
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 46
Went this morning around 6:30 on garland road side about 50 yards from the spill way
and caught 16 black crappie each weighing around 2 1/2 to 3 3/4 lbs. All 16" long.I was
using a chartruese/black sparklely tail road runner. I was tossing it along the bank near a
bunch of tree stomps and floating weeds. They where hitting it pretty aggressive and I
even missed a few that got me tangled in between the tree stomps as I was only using 4lb
test spider wire mono with a ultra lite shimano reel
2012-01-25
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:
1/24/12 Went fishing around 2:00 - 5:00 at the mouth of the creek north of the lake, did not catch anything. Met a couple men who came around 4:30, they stated they caugh several yellow bass on small pieces of shad fishing about 2 ft deep
White Rock Lake Catfish Fishing
White Rock Lake Catfish Tips: [ Add Tip ]
- I caught a good-sized channel catfish in White Rock Creek this morning, several hundred yards north of Mockingbird Lane, but well before the big bend, while fishing along a bunch of fallen timber on the west bank. I saw quite a few large catfish up there, but was trying to catch crappie.
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Catfish Tips for Current Conditions:
The catfish family comprises of blue catfish, flathead catfish and channel catfish. Since catfish are warm water fish, they aren’t going to be very active in this water temperature. They will still be feeding, but catfish will only be found very deep and feeding very slowly. Your best bet is give some of the more active fish species in your lake a shot until the cats are active again.
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Community Catfish Fishing Reports
2012-09-22
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 5
Water Temperature: 75
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 5
Water Temperature: 75
went yesterday morning on lawther drive side in front the mount vernon mansion and
was catching em on cut up gizzard shad. All em weighed in over 4lbs except my biggest
one which weighed a hefty 6lbs! I was throwing out as far as I could fishing about 2feet of
the bottom. I caught 15 channel cat. they were hitting it pretty aggressively. I thought it
was bass jumping on bait fish but it was the catfish! They were jumping out the water
about 25 to 30 feet out fro
m the bank. but use them cut gizzard shad and you cant go wrong I promise!
2012-09-22
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 5
Water Temperature: 75
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 5
Water Temperature: 75
went yesterday morning on lawther drive side in front the mount vernon mansion and
was catching em on cut up gizzard shad. All em weighed in over 4lbs except my biggest
one which weighed a hefty 6lbs! I was throwing out as far as I could fishing about 2feet of
the bottom. I caught 15 channel cat. they were hitting it pretty aggressively. I thought it
was bass jumping on bait fish but it was the catfish! They were jumping out the water
about 25 to 30 feet out from the bank. but use them cut gizzard shad and you cant go
wrong I promise!
2012-09-22
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 5
Water Temperature: 75
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 5
Water Temperature: 75
went yesterday morning on lawther drive side in front the mount vernon mansion and
was catching em on cut up gizzard shad. All em weighed in over 4lbs except my biggest
one which weighed a hefty 6lbs! I was throwing out as far as I could fishing about 2feet of
the bottom. I caught 15 channel cat. they were hitting it pretty aggressively. I thought it
was bass jumping on bait fish but it was the catfish! They were jumping out the water
about 25 to 30 feet out from the bank. but use them cut gizzard shad and you cant go
wrong I promise!
2012-04-09
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 2
Water Temperature:
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 2
Water Temperature:
Caught an 18" channel catfish up on White Rock Creek on Friday, April 6 at about 8 a.m. I located a ton of catfish a few hundred yards north of the Mockingbird bridge, where there are a series of fallen trees along the western bank of the creek, well before you reach the big bend.
2012-01-16
Report By:Livetofish_27
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 56
Report By:Livetofish_27
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 56
Ok its winter The catfish are slow in the morning but later in the day there really good if you really wanna catch em stay over night. Im always in my boat and hittin the deep water so far the catfish have been really good off the dam fish strait down with your bait about 2ft to 3ft off the bottom thats if you got you boat but if you dont sit on the bottom. I have had the best luck usin SHAD if you use shad you are sure to catch a monster i promise you.
White Rock Lake Spotted Bass Fishing
White Rock Lake Spotted Bass Tips: [ Add Tip ]
Spotted Bass Tips for Current Conditions:
Spotted bass fishing is ready to heat up for spring. The bass will be starting to move into their spawning area. Spotted bass will generally spawn on rock and gravel bottoms that are protected from the elements. It?s time to get fishing and look for staging bass in deeper water.
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Community Spotted Bass Fishing Reports
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White Rock Lake White Bass Fishing
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White Rock Lake Striped Bass Fishing
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White Rock Lake General Fishing Info
Community General Fishing Reports
2012-04-10
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 73
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 73
I was fishing off the pier on Garland Road at about 6:45pm yesterday, and the guy next to me caught a 15 Lbs carp/buffalo. He was using dark red boilies that appeared to be store bought, but I could be wrong, but later switch over to dough balls. He was casting really far out towards the deep waters near that pier and the spillway, and was fishing 3 large rods sitting on electronic bite indicators.
2011-08-27
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:
i have been fishing for over 30 years at white rock lake in dallas . these reports of spotted bass are bogus . they have black bass, white bass, and yellow bass but NO spotted bass there .
2011-06-04
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature: 82
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature: 82
Today, caught limit small mouth bass with veteran White Lake Guide Rosco, who catches probably more fish than anyone else on the lake over all. I recommend him for White Rock Lake, we had a great time, I love catching perch, and he showed us how to limit on those too. Our last trip, Rosco showed us how to bag our limit on catfish. You can reach him at sunny.southdallas@yahoo.com
White Rock Lake Solar and Lunar Conditions
Current Lunar Fishing Tip:
The full moon is right around the corner. The gravitational pull is starting to increase with the moon and sun being on opposite sides of the planet. Watch the peak fishing times and make sure you are on the water during that part of the day to take full advantage of today's solar/lunar peaks. It's always fun trying something new at the peak times to change things up a bit and test out the Lunar Theory each time you hit the water in close to full and full moon situations. Good luck you there.
The full moon is right around the corner. The gravitational pull is starting to increase with the moon and sun being on opposite sides of the planet. Watch the peak fishing times and make sure you are on the water during that part of the day to take full advantage of today's solar/lunar peaks. It's always fun trying something new at the peak times to change things up a bit and test out the Lunar Theory each time you hit the water in close to full and full moon situations. Good luck you there.
Sunrise:
06:25 CST
Moon Phase:
% Illuminated
Days to Full
06:25 CST
Moon Phase:
% Illuminated
Days to Full
Sunset:
20:21 CST
20:21 CST
White Rock Lake Links
State Department of Wildlife and Parks
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us
State Fishing Records
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fis...
State Fishing Licensee
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/business/lic...
State Parks
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/
Texas Bass Tackle
http://www.texasbasstackle.com
BASSMaster Fishing Membership
http://espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us
State Fishing Records
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fis...
State Fishing Licensee
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/business/lic...
State Parks
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/
Texas Bass Tackle
http://www.texasbasstackle.com
BASSMaster Fishing Membership
http://espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/