Granger
SLOW. Water slightly stained; 72 degrees; 0.18 feet above pool.
Black bass are fair on crankbaits fished up river around timber.
Crappie are fair on jigs fished over structure and standing timber.
White bass are good on slab spoons fished over main lake humps and ridges.
Blue catfish are good on shad fished in very shallow water.
Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines fished around timber.
Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.
Somerville
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 88 degrees; 2.56 feet above pool.
Shad continued to be scattered in shallow water.
Catfish, bluegill, and crappie are good on minnows and worms at Somerville Marina early morning.
Black bass are good hitting slow moving Carolina rigs and spinnerbaits on 6-10 feet dropoffs and around brush piles.
Crappie are good on the main lake brush piles and pilings using minnows and various jigs.
Catfish are excellent early morning in 2-4 feet of water. Larger catfish are good in deep water on jug lines baited with shad or chicken breast.
White bass are excellent trolling with Pet spoons, or using shad and ghost minnows on humps in 6-10 feet of water.
Hybrids are excellent using cut shad.
Water is being released at the dam.
Report by Weldon Kirk, Fish Tales Guide Service.
Stillhouse Hollow
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 77 degrees; 12.67 feet below pool.
Quality largemouth bass fishing continues with an unbroken streak of 8-9 pound fish coming out of the lake with most every bass tournament taking place there.
Fish are found on the outside edge of the hydrilla growing in 12-16 feet of water and are being caught on dark, natural colored soft plastics.
White bass fishing has bounced back slightly, with small groups of fish now consistently using the edges of the old Lampasas River channel in the middle third of the reservoir.
Working MAL Heavy Lures ver tically with a smoking retrieve or MAL Dense Lures horizontally with a sawtooth retrieve is producing.
Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.
Belton
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 76 degrees; 12.59 feet below pool.
The threadfin shad spawn is still under way and is fueling a 30-40 minute, low-light bite beginning around 6:30 a.m. My go-to bait for this is the MAL Heavy with chartreuse tail sight-cast to boiling fish or counted down to about a fourcount when fish are present but not visible on the surface.
Once fish leave the shallows and continue to chase shad out toward deeper water and down lower in the water column, downrigging has produced very well for another 45-minutes or so using a weightless three-armed umbrella rig with #13 Pet Spoons.
Once mid-morning hits, fishing can go two ways, either “run and gun” for abundant schools of white bass and hybrid stripers chasing youngof- the-year shad up on the surface with tiny, shad imitating baits like hand-tied streamers on #10 and #12 hooks, or post up over top of open water schools of suspended white bass using a splasher and wait for them to consolidate under the boat, fishing the MAL Heavy vertically through them aided by sonar.
Expect better results with wind and cloud cover; expect tough fishing with calm, clear, bright conditions.
Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.
With the blue catfish spawn underway, fishing can be tough. Catfish are fair, drifting in 8-12 feet of water using smaller cuts of fresh shad has been the best. Anchoring around timber using punch bait is best for channel catfish.
Flatheads have been good at night using live perch on shallow flats.
Report by Brian Worley, B&S Catfishing.
Crappie bite is on fire in
timber and brush piles in 8-18 feet of water using jigs.
Report by Zach Minnix, Jig N’ Jerk Guide Service.
Limestone
GOOD. Water clear; 75 degrees; 0.06 feet above pool.
Largemouth bass are good along creek banks, docks and shallow timber in 2-7 feet of water using chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, Texas rigs and jigs.
Crappie are good along creek banks, standing timber and shallow brush in 2-12 feet using minnows.
Catfish are good in 2 -12 feet of water in creek channels, creek banks and boat ramps using cutbait. It is a good time to noodle for catfish.
White bass are good along creek banks, creek channels, docks and points in 2-8 feet using crankbaits, spinnerbaits and jigging spoons.
Report by Colan Gonzales, DFW Fishing Guide Booking. com.
Waco
GREAT. Water stained; 74 degrees; 7.19 feet below pool. Crappie bite is excellent to insane with limits coming out of brush piles in 8-20 feet of water near creek channels or pockets.
Bryan
GOOD. Water stained; 72 degrees.
Bass are good on the rocks near the dam, off the bottom in brush piles and moving throughout the lake on Texas rigs and spinnerbaits.
Report by Aggie Anglers.
Crappie are good in the morning near the rocks in the creek area and off the pier with small minnows and jigs.
Catfish are good with small minnows and nightcrawlers.
Report by The Bait Barn.
Walter E. Long
GOOD. Water stained; 1.00 above pool; 74 degrees.
Perch are excellent. Bass are good on topwater frogs or using slower moving baits and worms. Giant bait balls are moving in open but the bass are not schooling up giving chase yet.
Striper bite is slow. Crappie bite is fair to good.
Report by David Townsend, Austin Fishing Guide.
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