BASTROP: Water clear. Black bass are fair on minnows and watermelon red soft plastics. Crappie are good on minnows and chartreuse tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are very good on live bait, frozen shrimp, and stinkbait. Yellow catfish are slow.
BELTON: Water clear; 72 degrees; 0.50’ high. Black bass to 5 pounds are fair on watermelon soft plastics and minnows. Hybrid striper are good on minnows and Rat-L-Traps. White bass are good on minnows and white riversides under lights at night. Crappie are excellent on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are good on stinkbait and hot dogs. Yellow catfish are fair on juglines baited with live perch.
BROWNWOOD: Water stained; 70 degrees; 1.64’ low. Black bass are excellent on watermelon/white and watermelon red spinnerbaits and Rat-L-Traps. Hybrid striper are fair on white/chartreuse striper jigs. White bass are good on Li’l Fishies and live minnows. Crappie are fair on live minnows and blue and white tube jigs. Channel catfish are good on frozen shrimp, stinkbait, and shad. Yellow catfish are slow.
BUCHANAN: Water clear; 70 degrees; 2.63’ low. Black bass are good on white Terminator spinnerbaits, Bleeding Shad 'Traps, and weightless wacky rigged green pumpkin Whacky Sticks along break lines of flats with flooded grass in creeks and pockets in 5 – 15 feet. Striped bass are fair trolling and jigging white Curb's bucktail jigs and drifting live bait through schools of stripers from Shaw to Flag Island in 28 feet. White bass are fair trolling Shad Raps along Hog Island, and casting or jigging Pirk Minnows and Tiny Traps above Paradise Point. Crappie are fair on minnows and Curb's crappie jigs. Channel catfish are good on live bait and cut bait. Yellow and blue catfish are good on juglines and trotlines.
CANYON LAKE: Water clear; 70 degrees; 0.46’ low. Black bass are good on root beer/green flake Baby Brush Hogs along break lines with standing timber, feeder creeks, and deep flats in bays in 8 - 15 feet, and on JDC Skip-N-Pop topwaters and flukes in feeder creeks. Striped bass are slow to fair trolling Gizz 4 crankbaits and Shad Raps. White bass are fair on Road Runners upriver in 4 – 8 feet, and slow in the main lake. Smallmouth bass are good on root beer JDC curl tail grubs, 6" smoke/red tubes on ball jigheads, and Bleeding Shad Tiny Traps along main lake points and ledges in 5 – 15 feet. Crappie are fair to good on Curb's crappie jigs and live minnows around submerged brush piles along break lines. Channel catfish are fair in the upper end of the lake. Yellow and blue catfish are fair on juglines and trotlines in creeks.
COLEMAN: Water clear; 70 degrees; 1.76’ low. Black bass are slow. Hybrid striper are fair on striper jigs and soft plastic grubs. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are slow. Yellow catfish are slow.
COLORADO RIVER: (At Colorado Bend State Park) Water murky. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are slow. White bass are fair on minnows. Crappie are fair on minnows and blue tube jigs. Catfish are good on shrimp and stinkbait.
FAYETTE: Water lightly stained; 75 degrees. Black bass are good on shallow running shad colored crankbaits over grass, and on watermelon, watermelon red, and watermelon seed Carolina rigged soft plastic worms along the outside edges of grass in 6 – 8 feet. Channel and blue catfish are fair on shrimp and doughbait.
GRANBURY: Water clear; 0.52’ low. Black bass are good on watermelon red soft plastics, crankbaits, and spinnerbaits. Striped bass are fair on minnows and white striper jigs. White bass are fair on minnows and chartreuse spinnerbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and green tube jigs. Catfish are good on stinkbait, shrimp, and liver.
GRANGER: Water murky; 75 degrees; 0.86’ high. Black bass are slow. White bass are fair on Rat-L-Traps along shallow roadbeds and flats. Crappie are good on jigs in 4 – 12 feet. Blue catfish are good on prepared baits. Yellow catfish to 40 pounds are good on trotlines baited with live perch upriver.
LBJ: Water stained; 70 degrees; 0.40’ low. Black bass are good on watermelon red flukes, JDC Skip-N-Pop topwaters, and green pumpkin tubes along docks and break lines of flats with stumps or lay downs in 4 - 10 feet. White bass are fair trolling Shad Raps and Tiny Traps. Crappie are good on minnows and white Curb's crappie jigs over brush piles in 8 - 12 feet. Channel catfish are good on live bait and dip bait. Yellow and blue catfish are good on trotlines.
NAVARRO MILLS: Water murky; 72 degrees; 0.86’ high. Black bass are very good on black soft plastic worms and Sassy Shad, and good on minnows. White bass are slow. Crappie are very good on minnows, and on black/orange and red/chartreuse tube jigs with pink heads. Channel and blue catfish are fair on shrimp and stinkbait. Yellow catfish are slow.
PROCTOR: Water clear; 74 degrees; 0.73’ high. Black bass are good on crankbaits off points. Striped bass are good on live shad. White bass are good on live shad. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are good on fresh shad in the lower end of the lake. Yellow catfish are slow.
SOMERVILLE: Water murky; 70 degrees; 0.51’ high. Black bass are slow. Hybrid striper are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are fair on dead shad along the banks in 2 feet. Yellow catfish are slow.
STILLHOUSE: Water clear; 71 degrees; 0.30’ high. Black bass are good on minnows, perch, watermelon trick worms, and watermelon super flukes. White bass are excellent on minnows in 10 – 15 feet. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are good on chicken livers and hot dogs. Yellow catfish are slow.
TRAVIS: Water clear; 71 degrees; 3.08’ low. Black bass to 5 pounds are good on chrome topwaters, June bug worms, and grubs in 5 – 18 feet. Striped bass to 5 pounds are fair on chrome topwaters and smoke grubs in 10 – 20 feet. White bass to 1.5 pounds are good on chrome topwaters, smoke grubs, and white shad raps in 8 – 25 feet. Crappie are fair on blue/white tube jigs and roadrunners. Channel and blue catfish to 8 pounds are fair on fresh cut bait and nightcrawlers in 15 – 25 feet. Yellow catfish are slow.
WALTER E. LONG: Water stained; 71 degrees. Black bass are good on crankbaits, Rat-L-Traps, and on red, sour grape, and June bug soft plastic worms. Hybrid striper are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are good on nightcrawlers and shrimp. Yellow catfish are slow.
WHITNEY: Water clear; 0.29’ high. Black bass are fair on chartreuse and pumpkinseed Texas and Carolina rigged soft plastics. Striped bass are fair on minnows and striper jigs. White bass are fair on minnows and spinnerbaits. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on shrimp and cheesebait. |