Granger GOOD. Water lightly stained; 85 degrees; 0.64 feet below pool.
Black bass are good with catches up to 5 pounds on plastic worms.
Crappie are good in 4-10 feet of water.
White bass are good on spoons fished over roadbeds.
Blue catfish are good on jug lines.
Yellow catfish are good on live bait.
Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.
Somerville SLOW. Water normal stain; 72 degrees; 1.89 feet below pool.
Fishing patterns are holding steady.
At Somerville Marina, the crappie bite is slow, bluegill and catfish are fair.
Crappie are slow over brush in 8-16 feet of water with jigs and minnows.
Black bass are fair on slow moving plastics in 6-12 feet of water.
Catfish are fair in 6-10 feet using cut shad or punch bait.
White bass slow trolling with various spoons or anchored with shad and ghost minnows.
Hybrids are slow when in deeper water using cut bait. Dam gates are closed.
Report by Weldon Kirk, Fish Tales Guide Service.
Stillhouse Hollow FAIR. Water stained; 78 degrees; 0.51 feet below pool.
La r gemout h ba s s anglers report hit-or-miss fishing, especially around sunrise and sunset.
After the loss of the hydrilla crop on the lake during the f looding in May, bass have relocated to sparse natural cover. Some cover holds nothing, while other cover may harbor a dozen or more fish.
Fishing thoroughly once a single fish is landed may well lead to additional catches.
Texas and Carol ina- rigged small, dark soft plastics due well on this very clear reservoir.
Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line
Belton
EXCELLENT. Water stained; 78 degrees; 1.99 feet below pool.
What was already hot white bass f ishing has become even hotter.
Another mild and dry cold front knocked the water temperature down slightly, pushing it even closer to that magical 70-74 degree mark.
Mornings are fishing much better than afternoons, with the morning bite starting around 8:10 a.m. and staying solid for about three hours on most days.
Fish are using deep breaklines, starting in around 25 feet and slowly moving out to 35-40 feet before the morning bite ends.
The MAL Original used by cranking it up off the bottom about 6-7 times is outproducing slabs while the white bass and shad are both moving far and fast in this temperature of water.
Very little surface action and very little bird action exists, so fish must be found with sonar.
Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.
Catfishing is excellent.
Good numbers of blue catfish under 10 pounds can be found in the mouths of creeks and along old river channels in 10-20 feet of water. Drifting with fresh cut shad has worked best.
Channel catfish have been slow using punch bait around gravel beds and timber.
Flatheads have been slow but can be found around large rock piles using live bait.
Report by Brian Worley, B&S Catfishing.
Limestone GOOD. Water slightly stained; 72 degrees; 2.58 feet below pool.
There is a concentration of shad in the creeks indicating fall fishing is just around the corner.
Crappie are in 4-12 feet with some suspended 16 feet down.
Largemouth bass are in 2-14 feet of water on brush piles, rocks and docks using moving baits.
White bass have been schooling in the back of the creeks.
Fresh willows continue to be the best brush piles.
Report by Colan Gonzales, CG’s Just Fishing Guide Service.
Bryan GOOD. Water stained; 87 degrees.
The bass bite picked up after the recent cold front. Bass are good on brush piles and shallow with topwater lures.
Report by the Aggie Anglers.
Waco SLOW. Water stained; 80 degrees; 1.54 feet below pool.
Summer fishing patterns are steady.
Crappie are good in 10-20 feet of open water on brush piles with live minnows or jigs.
Largemouth bass are slow and scattered. The best bite is early or late in the day with soft plastics.
Sand bass are excellent on small slabs, small crankbaits, small swimbaits and small spoons in 15-35 feet on open water humps, points, ridges, roadbeds, and on the Old Dam.
Blue catfish and channel catfish are good with cut bait or live shad on juglines or rod-and-reel in 10-30 feet of water.
Hybrids up to 7 pounds are being caught with 5-inch swimbaits or spoons at the Old Dam. Best colors are white and chartreuse or chrome.
Walter E. Long
GOOD. Water normal stain; 80 degrees.
The boat ramp has been closed for infrastructure repair but it is still possible to fish from the bank.
Georgetown SLOW. Water stained: 85 degrees; 10.98 feet below pool.
Expect the bite to improve as the water temperature cools.
Sand bass are hit-or-miss in the evenings.
Bass are slow in the evenings with catches up to 2 pounds.
Carp and gar can be caught up stream.
Black drum can be caught in the stilling basin.
Bastrop GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees.
Bass are good working soft jerkbaits like flukes and shallow crankbaits along reeds and grass edges close to and around points and partly into coves and cuts. Frogs and topwaters over grass beds work as well.
Later work deeper drops and ledges with rocks using deep crankbaits and jigs. A Carolina rigged finesse worm works great as well.
Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.
Water temperature is in the mid 70s on the south side and low 80s on the north side. Lots of minnows on the dam when there is a south wind.
Bass can be caught on senkos in the grass, with some keepers and many undersized fish.
Report by David Townsend, Austin Fishing Guide.
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