Tyler Pipe Industries Lake Number 2 Fishing near Lindale, Texas

• Overview

  Tyler Pipe Industries Lake Number 2 falls in Smith County, part of Texas. Everything around it is pine and hardwood. It is pond-in-a-field scale, with the far bank a short lob away. On size it sits at the modest end of our Smith County list. Lindale sits 6.4 miles from the bank. The big place round here is Tyler, 6.8 miles distant. Rules here are straightforward: one county, one set of rules.

• Where to Fish on Tyler Pipe Industries Lake Number 2

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Species logged nearby in open biodiversity records include bluegill, green sunfish, redspotted sunfish and harlequin darter. Presence in the area does not guarantee a fish on the day. On this water the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 83°F in July and bottom out at 45°F in January. Winter is a mild inconvenience here, nothing more. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer squeezes it into the edges of the day. June to September is hot work, so the first and last hours are what count. That is the shape of the year on this water.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Mapping shows a campsite some half a mile from the water. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Failing this one, try Swan Lake, 1.6 miles away. Nothing here settles the position at this water for certain.