The following fishing reports are provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for the week of February28:

LAKE BROWNWOOD

GOOD. Water stained; 59 degrees; 8.85 feet below pool. Black bass to 7.89 pounds are good on Hag’s Bait jigs, jerk baits and crankbaits in 3-12 feet of water. Bass are in pre-spawn on secondary points and the mouth of cove pockets. Crappie are fair at the Wild Duck and brush piles on minnows in 12-15 feet of water starting to move shallow. White bass are excellent on crankbaits and Alabama rigs. Catfish are good on cut or prepared bait around baited holes.

LAKE CISCO

GOOD. Water stained; 58 degrees; 11.58 feet below pool. Crappie are improving in shallow water biting on minnows. Channel catfish are good in 8 feet of water on worms. Lots of bass activity chasing bait out to 15 feet deep. Report by Lake Cisco Rentals.

LAKE COLEMAN

SLOW. Water stained; 55 degrees; 9.16 feet below pool. Few reports, but typically crappie can be caught in the brush piles under docks. Crappie are good on jigs at the docks.

LAKE O.H. IVIE

FAIR. Water stained; 58 degrees; 30.77 feet below pool. The lake is in good shape with bass pushing shallow for the pre-spawn becoming aggressive on chatter bait, creature baits, plastics baits 1-12 feet of water. Look for bass to spawn with the next full moon. White bass chasing rattletraps and spinnerbaits schooling up the rivers. Should be spawning in the next month. Crappie are moving around bigger pecan trees in 15 feet of water hitting small red chartreuse or red and white jigs, or live minnows on a small hook. Channel catfish, 1-5 pounds, are moving shallow on shrimp and chicken river. Report by Wendell Ramsey, Ramsey Fishing. A better pattern should emerge as the weather warms heading into the next full moon.

LAKE PROCTOR

GOOD. Water normal stain; 50 degrees; 12.87 feet below pool. Bank anglers are reporting a good bite for crappie and catfish. Ramps are closed. It is possible to launch a boat from the gravel at Buffalo Springs.