SLOW. Water slightly stained; 72 degrees; 0.25 feet above pool.
Black bass are good on worms and jigs fished around shallow cover.
Crappie are fair to 2.2 pounds on jigs fished in 6 to 12 feet of water.
White bass are good to 2 pounds on Slab spoons f ished over main lake humps.
Blue catfish are good on jug lines baited with shad.
Yellow catfish are good on trotlines baited with live perch.
Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.
Somerville
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 84 degrees; 1.47 feet above pool.
Corp is releasing 760 cfs dam discharge, and the lake level is dropping about two inches per day. The upper lake is cloudy and lower lake is clear after the recent rain. Fishing patterns remain consistent.
Tons of shad are scattered in shallow water.
Catfish, bluegill, and crappie are good on minnows and worms at Somerville Marina early morning.
Black bass are fair hitting slow moving Carolina rigs and spinnerbaits on 6-10 feet drop-offs and around brush piles.
Crappie are good on the main lake brush piles and pilings using minnows and various jigs.
Catfish are good 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.
Report by Weldon Kirk, Fish Tales Guide Service.
Stillhouse Hollow
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 80 degrees; 12.89 feet below pool.
Quality largemouth bass fishing continues with an unbroken streak of 7-9 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.
Small “schoolie” largemouth bass are beginning to feed on young of the year shad on the surface with increasing frequency.
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 bites.
Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.
Belton
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 79 degrees; 12.70 feet below pool.
White bass fishing has risen and fallen with the weather. Mornings with clouds and wind produce much better than brighter, more calm mornings. The white bass are very focused on the small, young-of-theyear shad.
Anglers should be prepared to present lures which imitate these 0.751.25 inch shad. The MAL Mini Rig with 3/4-ounce weight in front for added distance and sink rates landed numbers of catches. My rule of thumb is if you cannot see the bait the fish are feeding on, assume it is tiny.
If you can see the shad jumping out of the water in an attempt to escape, go with a larger presentation. The MAL Heavy is a very close match for these mature shad.
White bass have all but discontinued using the lake’s bottom, preferring to suspend beneath the suspended baitfish, typically at 15-22 feet below the surface. Downrigging a #12 Pet Spoons now, the smallest available in silver with white feather tail, is putting fish in the boat once fish shut down.
Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.
Catfish are fair. With spawning in full swing blue catfish under eight pounds can be caught in shallow water around gravel beds using fresh cut bait.
Flatheads are good on live bait around points and structure.
Channel catfish are getting into the summer pattern and are great around timber using punch baits.
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
EXCELLENT. Water clear; 85 degrees; 0.05 feet above pool.
Crappie are good in 12-18 feet of water on brush and standing timber using minnows.
Largemouth bass are good in 2-14 feet of water on brush, docks and bulkheads using a Texas rig, topwater frog, spinnerbaits and chatterbaits.
Catfish are good in 7-14 feet of water on points, humps and in the creek channel using cutbait.
White bass are good in 7-16 feet of water using silver jigging spoons.
Report by Colan Gonzales, DFW Fishing Guide Booking.com.
Waco
GREAT. Water stained; 77 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; 77 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; 77 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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