Placid Lake

Largemouth bass and white crappie are the most popular fish in the reservoir. Largemouth bass are abundant with frequent reports of large fish being boated. Spotted bass are there, too, and provide good fishing. Although crappie fishing varies from year to year, respectable catches are not uncommon in the cooler months of the year.

Habitat in Lake Placid consists primarily of boat docks, piers, bulkheads, overhanging brush, and floating-leaf vegetation. Isolated submerged trees, stumps, and brush can be found throughout the reservoir, providing excellent ambush and resting cover for most game fish species. The upper portion of the reservoir contains rock and gravel within the river channel, while the lower portion consists of steep banks with a mud and clay bottom.

Largemouth bass fishermen are most successful on Lake Placid during the spring, fall, and winter months. Popular baits include spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, rattletraps, crankbaits, and unweighted soft plastic worms or jerkbaits. Topwater baits such as buzzbaits, Zara Spooks, or Pop-R's, presented very early or very late in the day near visible cover, are popular and can be productive throughout the day if cloud cover is present. Flipping jigs, plastic worms, or tube baits in shaded cover are often productive when other baits fail to produce. Crappie fishing is usually best with live minnows near submerged brush in the cooler months of the year, although small jigs in white, pink, or black and chartreuse also produce nice catches when dabbled near submerged brush or vegetation.

All species at Placid Lake are managed under standard Texas statewide regulations.