Hey everyone I live near Kansas City and just bought a bass boat. My dad lives near mineral wells Texas and has always wanted a boat. He will be on vacation the first week of March and I am going to visit him. He does not know I bought a boat so I am going to surprise him and take him out for largemouth. Could anyone give me some pointers on good lakes within an hour or so of mineral wells that have a reputation of large and plentiful fish?

Possum Kingdom is near by & then there's several around the Metromess including Lake Fork.

Check out Possum Kingdom for sure. It's got very clear water by texas standards so be prepared for that.
You may also want to check out Hubbard Creek Reservoir, it's a little more typical of texas reservoirs - visibility 2-6ft.
Lake Bridgeport, Eagle Mountain and Lake Granbury are also nearby.
The above are the primary large reservoirs within an hour/hour and a half of Mineral Wells.

You will have about a three hour drive between Mineral Wells and Lake Fork, but that's doable. Tawakoni is closer but more of a white bass lake.
Lake Whitney is a little closer and further south - a great fishing lake - last time I was there in Mid-January it sounded like someone throwing bowling balls into the lake about every two minutes. I was at the state park boat ramp that empties out into a little cove.
Ray Roberts is about a 2 hour drive but obviously a strong choice. Lake Lewisville is about the same distance and has some older structures like the old Lake Dallas Dam that can be good to fish around in the northwest part of the lake i believe.
The other DFW lakes can produce great fish but are not places I frequent considering I live ten minutes from Ray Roberts.

hope you can find a football somewhere, best of luck

Possum Kindom is pretty hot right now... I think three over 13lbs have been caught there in the last 30 days

On 2/18/2022 at 8:35 PM, TroxBox said:

Possum Kindom is pretty hot right now... I think three over 13lbs have been caught there in the last 30 days

There's huge bass being caught all over right now.
I snapped off a monster at ray roberts a couple weeks ago...haven't hooked anything there since.