Baylor Creek · Individual fish profile

White Crappie

Pomoxis annularis

Baylor Creek · Keep or release

Daily bag

Length rule

10 in minimum

For white and black crappie, minimum length limit = 10 inches. Daily bag limit = 25 in any combination.

White Crappie · Identification features below.

Dark markings form vertical bars; usually six dorsal spines.

Baylor has timber, some pondweed, rocky dam areas, cut banks and dropoffs. Childress Lake habitat is separately described and is not attributed here.

Lake guide guidance: TPWD describes spring bass around intersecting cover types and crappie minnows at dam-side or upper-basin structure.

Fishing guidance describes documented approaches, not a promise of fish activity today.

Eating guidance · White Crappie

No active lake-specific advisory or possession ban was named in the reviewed DSHS directory. This does not guarantee that fish are safe to eat.

Harvest permission and eating restrictions are separate.

Lives in lakes and slow rivers; small fish and aquatic invertebrates form its diet.

Sources & lake evidence

TPWD lake guide and reviewed fisheries evidence establish the listed species or group. Historical survey records do not establish current abundance.