Granger GOOD. Water lightly stained; 70 degrees; 2.05 feet above pool.
Black bass are slow. Crappie are good to 2 pounds on jigs fished over brush piles all over the lake.
White bass a re fai r on slab spoons fished on points and roadbeds.
Blue catfish are very good all over the lake on jug lines and rod and reel.
Yellow catfish are fair up river.
Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.
Somerville GOOD. Water stained; 73 degrees; 1.11 feet below pool.
After some much needed rain, the water level has risen one foot in a week and is still on the rise. Expect the freshwater to alter the bite for a few days. Dam gates are closed.
At the marina, the crappie bite is fair, bluegill are fair on crickets or worms, catfish are fair on minnows or punch bait.
Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows over brush in 8-18 feet of water.
Catfish are excellent in 3-10 feet of water with cut shad or punch bait. Catfish are spawning.
Black bass are good on crankbaits and shiny spinnerbaits in 2-8 feet of water.
White bass are excellent trolling with various spoons or anchored with shad and ghost minnows.
Hybrids are good with many undersized fish being caught in deeper water using cut bait or mussels.
Below the dam fishing is slow since no water is being released.
Report by Weldon Kirk, Fish Tales Guide Service.
Stillhouse Hollow GOOD. Water stained; 73 degrees; 3.11 feet below pool.
Thanks to much needed rains in the Lampasas River watershed, the lake is rising at the same time the annual threadfin shad spawn is peaking, thus ensuring high survival rates of yet another year class of forage fish. The lake is rising due to runoff.
The white bass seemed to snap out of their intense preference for live bait over artificial and really turned on to lures late in the week last week and continued aggressively chasing and striking lures in the early part of this week.
Find fish with sonar, e spe c ia l ly wel l - tuned side imaging, mark them, return to them, park on top of them with your trolling motor, create a commotion by splashing or thumping, and work the silver blade with a chartreuse tail MAL Heavy from flat on bottom upwards for at least six cranks with the first crank harder and faster than the rest to ensure the blade is spinning.
Using Garmin Live-Scope or similar will be icing on the cake. Search 6-20 feet the first 90 minutes following sunrise, and 20-32 feet thereafter.
Focus on the lower twothirds of the lake, as the upper end by the bridge is getting steadily muddier with recent rains.
Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.
Belton FAIR. Water stained; 73 degrees; 2.66 feet below pool.
After much needed rain in the Leon River watershed, the lake is rising at the same time the annual threadfin shad spawn is peaking, thus ensuring high survival rates of yet another year class of forage fish. The lake is now just 2.8 feet low and rising due to runoff and thanks to a 300+ CFS release from Lake Proctor upstream.
The white bass and hybrid striped bass seemed to snap out of their intense preference for live bait over artificial and really turned on to lures late in the week last week and continued aggressively chasing and striking lures in the early part of this week.
Find fish with sonar, e spe c ia l ly wel l - tuned side imaging, mark them, return to them, park on top of them with your trolling motor, create a commotion by splashing or thumping, and work the silver blade with a chartreuse tail MAL Heavy lure from flat on bottom upwards for at least six cranks with the first crank harder and faster than the rest to ensure the blade is spinning.
Using Garmin Live-Scope or similar will be icing on the cake. Search in 6-20 feet the first 90 minutes following sunrise then in 20-32 feet thereafter.
Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.
Catfish are excellent. Anglers can find blue catfish in river channels, sand f lats and around steep ledges in 10-20 feet of water.
Larger fresh cut baits have been effective for trophy size fish.
Eater f ish under 10 pounds can be caught slowly drifting with small cut shad along sand flats.
Channel cat f ish are good and on punch bait in 10-25 feet of water.
Report by Brian Worley, B&S Catfishing.
Limestone GOOD. Water normal stain; 76 degrees; 0.47 feet below pool. Water is stained in the creeks from rain.
Largemouth bass are in 20-10 feet of water with chatterbaits or Texas rigs.
Crappie are in 10-12 feet of water on standing timber, power lines columns and shallow brush piles with minnows.
Catf ish are on wind blown points and bulkheads with cutbait.
White bass are in 5-15 feet of water with slab.
Sandies can be caught at night on docks with lights with beetle spins.
Fish are in transition to summer patterns and creek fishing has come to an end.
Lake Limestone Marina dock will be the best place to bank fish.
Report by Colan Gonzales, Lake Limestone Guide Service.
Bryan GOOD. Water stained; 74 degrees.
Bass cont inue to be good cranking and slow dragging over rock.
Topwater action in the morning has been good. With this storm incoming it should stir the lake up pushing fish offshore to main lake points.
Report by the Aggie Anglers.
Waco GOOD. Water stained; 74 degrees; 0.78 feet below pool.
Crappie are near ing the end of the spawn with half the fish being caught post spawn. Crappie are on good from 18 inches along the banks out to 3 feet and spawned out fish are in 12 feet of water in the creeks and channels hitting blue and chartreuse jigs or minnows.
White bass are good heading towards the main lake biting rooster tails or live minnows.
Report by Greg Culverhouse, Crappie King.
Walter E. Long GOOD. Water normal stain; 78 degrees.
The boat ramp is closed and blocked off to anything but kayaks and personal watercraft. Launching from the ramp is challenging due to the numerous potholes and large rocks, but kayaks and small craft can be launched from the shoreline.
Locate submerged vegetation that has a few feet of water above it or find spots where the reeds are still in the water.
Moving baits like lipless crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, and Alabama rigs work well.
Fishing the reedline with Texas-r igged sof t plastics is almost always ef fective, with Senkos, dropshot s, and shak y heads consistently getting bit.
Report by Team YAKUSA.
Georgetown GOOD. Normal stain; 73 degrees; 10.12 feet below pool.
Bass fishing remains consistent. Look for some spawning fish mid to up river and use soft plastics like lizards, creature baits and worms for those.
Some bass are a bit deeper and a shaky head works wonders on this lake around offshore humps and ledges. Find some lay laydowns in around 3-5 feet and flip those for some good bites.
Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.
Bastrop GREAT. Water stained; 80 degrees.
Bass are good working the discharge early and often will get bites with small swimbaits, worms and crankbaits.
Look for any rock piles and work those good with shaky head jigs and Texas rigged plastics like finesse worms and creature baits.
Cranking the dam and throwing flukes and worms off the reeds work as well.
They are just about going to start schooling so be ready with a small topwater and swimbait to throw to those.
Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.
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