Fishing in Dallas
Texas · Prairies & Great Plains · hardiness zone 8b
Now
34°C · Clear
Today
38° / 27°
Sun
07:10 – 19:34
Moon
Waxing Crescent · solunar good
Warm water holds less oxygen. Fish the springs, the inflows and the deep water, and release quickly.
- Walleyebest now — Up on the shoals and weed edges in two to four metres, hunting into the shallows as the light goes.
- Largemouth bassbest now — Cruising the weed edges, pads and shallow flats, ambushing anything that moves across the top.
In the water now · September
What's biting
The sport fish active near Dallas, Texas in September — where they hold, how to know one on the line, and the tactic that usually works. Check your licence and the current limits before you go.
FishYear-roundWalleye
Sander vitreus
Olive-gold flanks, a spiny first dorsal, and the big glassy eye that gives it the name and lets it hunt in low light.
Where and how to catch it →
FishMay–OctSmallmouth bass
Micropterus dolomieu
Bronze-brown with vertical bars, red eye, and a jaw that ends level with the eye — not past it.
Writing your field guide — reading the forecast, the moon and the map…
Overhead · Dallas, Texas
The sky over the water
The two clocks nothing on the ground can argue with: the length of the day, and the phase of the moon.
The sun
12h 23m of light
Sunrise
07:10
Solar noon
13:22
Sunset
19:33
A month from now the day will be 1h 00m shorter. Enough light for steady growth.
Right now · Dallas, Texas
Forces at work
Nothing here is a guess. Each of these is read from this week's forecast and this location's climate record, and each one is pushing the season one way or the other.
- Worth watching
The moon
Waxing Crescent · 11%
Waxing, 3 days old. Full moon in 11 days. Fishing outlook: good.
It moves water — in the sea, in a lake's edge, and, by long tradition, in the sap of a plant. Fish feed hardest on the days around new and full.
- Working for you
Wind
16 km/h now · 24 peak
A working breeze: it ripples the surface, drifts a boat at a fishable speed, and stacks bait on the windward shore. Anglers call it a walleye chop.
It pollinates corn and grasses, dries soil, breaks stems — and it decides where the bait, and therefore the fish, end up.
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