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BBW, try a boa yarn leech sometime for crappies. Yellow has been my best producer. It is a fly you can keep moving...and you can move it SLOW without it sinking to fast. Crappies prefer to attack...

That's exactly what they say about Iowa's weather as well! ;)
Given the latitude (but completely ignoring altitude), my thought was just that Texas's Winter, such as it is, is comparatively shorter...

Well...you're in Texas, so the water temperature right now certainly isn't as cold there as here. Skim ice has been forming on some local ponds overnight.
My experience with late- and early-season...