Austin
FAIR. Water clear; 73 degrees; 0.56 feet low. Fish are in the summer pattern on Lake Austin. Bass are fair on big swimbaits around deep docks and creek canals. Lady Bird Lake bass are good early morning using chrome jerk baits over grass. Catfish are good on jug-lines. Report provided by Carson Conklin, ATX Fishing.
Bastrop
GOOD. Water clear; 85 degrees. Fishing is similar as we head into June. Bass fishing is good with schooling action near the hot water discharge with small top-waters and small finesse worms. Crappie are excellent in 27 feet over brush live minnows. Report by Charles Whited, Barefoot Fishing Tours.
Belton GOOD. Water lightly stained; 77 degrees; 4.31 feet low. The
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 77 degrees; 4.31 feet low. The threadfin shad spawn is tapering to a close and thanks to the recent stretch of unseasonably warm temperatures the strong late-spring white bass bite is now past peak. Topwater action in areas where the overnight winds have blown has been reliable for largemouth, smallmouth, and white bass during a short window from 6:45-8:00 a.m. using MAL Originals. After that early topwater action, we have relied exclusively on the MAL Dense used in conjunction with Garmin LiveScope to fish vertically for white bass and short hybrid, which are still heavily congregated on the bottom in 32-50 feet of water. Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service. Crappie are good in timber ranging from 18-27 feet of water using ten foot pro SE outlaw crappie rods paired with ATX Lure companies two inch wicked shad. Report by Zach Minnix, Jig N Jerk Guide Service.
Brownwood
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 76-81 degrees; 3.47 feet low. Bass are good to 5.50 pounds on crankbaits around the rocky shorelines feeding around the perch beds. Most are in a summer pattern. Crappie are good to one pound on minnows and on black/chartreuse or white color jigs from 8-12 feet in brush piles and around lighted docks. White bass are good to 1.50 pounds on small swimbaits or crankbaits and under the lights. Catfish are slow on cut bait and liver around the flats in 6-12 feet of water.
Buchanan
GREAT. Water lightly stained; 77 degrees; 4.86 feet low. Crappie fishing is good with fish clinging to the summer pattern. Fishing in 15-20 feet of water over brush piles using chartreuse jigs will fill the boat. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service. Bass are good on shallow rock and vegetation, and flipping shallow trees with worms and craw worms. The topwater bite is getting good as well. Crappie, white bass, hybrids and stripers are going strong using small jigging spoons or flutter spoons. Report provided by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs Bass Fishing Guide Service.
Canyon Lake
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 74 degrees; 2.08 feet low. Bass are very good at the mouth of the river around hydrilla and on points using Carolina rigs, flukes, baby brush hawgs. There is an early top water bite near grass and rocks while the shad continues to spawn. Striped and white bass are slow schooling on overcast days and at night in the marina green lights at night using live minnows and small shad colored swim-baits. Crappie are good in the hardwoods up river and on the main lake Corp of Engineers brush piles using live minnows. Report by Charles Whited, Barefoot Fishing Tours.
Granger
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 76 degrees; 0.20 feet high. Black bass are fair on spinner-baits fished in shallow water around timber. Crappie are very good on crappie jigs tipped with Berkley Power Bait Nibbles fished in structure from 4-12 feet of water. White bass are slow on slab spoons fished along shallow road beds. Blue catfish are good on jug lines baited with Zote Soap or shad. Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines int the river. Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.
LBJ
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 78 degrees; 0.66 feet low. Bass are very good on brush piles and rocky points in 8-15 feet of water using ten inch worms and crank-baits. Good topwater bite all day on overcast days while the bass are feeding on shallow perch. White bass are good mid lake to the river in jigging spoons and live minnows. Crappie are excellent over brush piles with live bait. Report by Charles Whited, Barefoot Fishing Tours.
Somerville
FAIR. Stained; 82-84 degrees; 0.14 feet below. Crappie, bluegill, and catfish are good in the Somerville Marina early morning and late evening. Black bass are good, on rocky points and brush. Hitting jigs with plastics on 10-15 feet drop-offs. Crappie are good on main lake brush piles biting minnows and various jig colors in 8-18 feet of water. Catfish are good early morning on shad, liver, and punch bait. White bass and hybrids are good using pet spoons for trolling or shad and pencil minnows in 8-10 feet of water. Report by Weldon Kirk, Fish Tales Guide Service.
Travis
GOOD. Stained; 76 degrees; 27.44 feet low. Bass are good using swimbaits, jerks baits and shaky head worms targeting brush on points and shorelines with chunky rock and brush combinations. Report provided by Carson Conklin, ATX Fishing.
Waco
GOOD. Water stained; 75 degrees; 5.60 feet low. Crappie are awesome in 10-20 feet of water fishing brush piles and humps. Report by Zach Minnix, Jig N Jerk Guide Service.
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