Fishing has been good overall at Lake Patman

TEXARKANA, Texas — Fishing has been good overall at Wright Patman Lake.

Largemouth bass are going after shad-like crankbaits, football jigs and drop shots around points, humps and flats.

White bass have been fair on slabs and live bait, while crappie are good on minnows and jigs around areas of timber and brushy piles. Catfish have been good on punch, live bait and chicken liver.

Out on Millwood Lake in Ashdown, Ark., largemouth bass have best reponded to custom painted Little John Crankbaits, Flat-A’s, Rat-LTrap Echo 1.75 and Bill Lewis Lure’s MR-6 Crankbaits in Millwood Magic, Ghost Shad, Chrome/Blue (sunny days) and Splatterback colors.

Largemouth bass have also been active on Johnson chrome Silver Minnow Spoons with a white 3-inch curly tail grub trailer are still getting a few blowup reactions in the pads by rumbling over and pausing in gaps between lily pads.

Rat-L-Traps in quarter-ounce Spin Traps and half-ounce Traps in Millwood Magic, Chrome/ Blue Back and Chartreuse Silver Shad continue to catch random largemouth bass following the shad schools.

Hammered Cordell Chrome Spoons with a red bucktail, Rocket Shads, Fat Free Shads in Tennessee Shad and Citrus Shad, halfounce Rat-L-Traps, Bill Lewis MR-6 Crankbaits and Spin Traps in chrome/blue, Millwood Magic, Tennessee Shad and Threadfin Shad colors were all catching white bass, periodically.

Catfish have been best on trotlines. Other recommended methods are yo-yos on limblines. The finest results came via chicken livers, cut buffalo, cut shad and homemade blood dough.