Fishing conditions in Central Texas

Bastrop

GREAT. Water clear; 90 degrees. Lake Bastrop is doing great. Reel in schooling bass all day long. Start anywhere, but the discharge is good early and the large flat just outside of the intake area on the north shore is best. Fish will school in that area and around the outside of the south shore ramp. Topwaters can produce if you are really quick, or small swimbaits and worms and let them sink down to the fish. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs Bass Fishing Guide Service. Bass are really good schooling all day with the best action early morning with small topwaters and small swimbaits in natural shad colors, 8-12 feet of water on watermelon or green pumpkin wacky worms. Crappie are fair with live minnows in 22-27 feet of water.

Report by Charles Whited, Barefoot Fishing Tours.

Granger

GOOD. Water lightly stained; 84 degrees; 1.42 feet low. Black bass are slow. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows fished over structure in 4-12 feet of water. White bass are good on slab spoons fished over main lake humps and ridges. Blue catfish are good to 25 pounds on rod and reel, or jug lines baited with Zote Soap. Yellow catfish are slow. Gaspergou are good on various baits fished all over the lake.

Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.

Somerville

FAIR. Stained; 98-103 degrees; 1.84 feet below. Fishing is slowing for all species as the Texas heat warms the water. Crappie and bluegill are fair in Somerville Marina early morning and late evening. Black bass are fair hitting slow moving jigs with plastics on drop-offs and brush in 10-15 feet of water. Crappie are fair with many undersized catches on main lake brush piles in 8-18 feet of water using minnows and various colored jigs. Catfish are good early morning in 6-12 feet of water, then the bite slows as the day heats up. White bass are very good with larger fish showing up for summer. Hybrid bass are very good schooling. Both fish hitting jigs bounced into schools or trolling with pet spoons, shad, and pencil minnows in 6-10 feet of water.

Report by Weldon Kirk, Fish Tales Guide Service.