Hi folks,
Last night I was wrapping up an afternoon of crappie fishing at Lake Thunderbird. Around 8pm, the baitfish moved into the shallows and the crappie and bass started tearing them up.
I fish Tbird quite a bit and grew up fishing it when I was I kid. I would suggest doing away with the topwater approach and target small sand/white bass. I am however not trying to tell you what you saw was not bass and crappie but having witnessed this same evening frenzy several times it has more often then not been ten to twelve inch sandies. Might try to through an inline spinner or 2 1/2 inch tube jig in the middle of the madness and see what happens. Just my .02.