Hill Country Region Week of May 29, 2024

Austin

FAIR. Water stained; 78 degrees; 0.68 feet below pool. Lake Austin has been slowing down during the daytime hours. First light and night time is the time to be fishing lake Austin. Some bass still spawning in lake Austin around full moons. Fish have been feeding offshore on small shad. Plenty of grass continues to grow around the banks that are holding a large number of baitfish. Overall the lake is fishing tougher right now. Report by Carson Conklin, ATX Fishing.

Brady

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 77 degrees; 10.74 feet below pool. Black bass bite is spotty. Crappie and white bass are slow. Channel catfish and flathead catfish are fair on live or cut bait on jug lines and trotlines.

Brownwood

GOOD. Water stained; 79 degrees; 3.63 feet below pool. Water is dirty main lake and muddy towards the rivers. Black bass to 7.71 pounds are slow on jigs, shaky heads and top waters in 2-10 feet. Crappie to 13 inches are excellent under docks on minnows in 6-12 feet. White bass to 12 inches are slow on crankbaits and small swimbaits with some top water action early and late. Catfish are good to 5 pounds on cut or prepared bait at Thrifty Park.

Bryan

GOOD. Water stained; 78 degrees. The lake is full and anglers are reporting good catches of catfish on minnows. Report by The Bait Barn.

Buchanan

EXCELLENT. Water slightly stained; 78 degrees; 9.73 feet below pool. North to mid-lake is still muddy and stained on the south end. Striper fishing remains good using live shad as bait in the 15-35 feet of water range. Some limited topwater schools have been showing up but have not been staying up for long. White bass continue biting excellent vertical jigging spoons. We have had some very strong east winds that have dislodged some debris from the east side of the lake so beware of floating obstacles. Report by Travis Holland, TH Fishing.

Canyon Lake

GOOD. Water normal stain; 83 degrees; 23.13 feet below pool. Bass are good on spooks in the morning. Then as the sun rises target bass around grass edges with worms. Report by Evan Coleman, Big Bassin Fishing.

Granger

GOOD. Water lightly stained; 75 degrees; 3.80 feet above pool. Black bass are fair on spinnerbaits fished in shallow cover. Crappie are good on jigs fished over cover in 12-18 feet of water. White bass are fair on slab spoons fishing windy points and roadbeds. Blue catfish are very good in the shallow flooded areas. Yellow catfish are good on trotlines. Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.

LBJ

FAIR. Water stained; 78 degrees; 0.39 feet below pool. Rainy weekend forecast, but patterns remain consistent. Catfish are good in 20 feet of water on punch bait. Crappie are fair in 15-20 feet of water with chartreuse jigs. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service.

Medina

SLOW. Water lightly stained; 70 degrees; 92.49 feet below pool. Few reports and anglers on the water due to limited access and low water level.

Travis

GOOD. Water stain; 80 degrees; 48.04 feet below pool. Bass are fair with mostly bigger fish over numbers in the marinas with shad imitation topwaters, swimbaits or jerkbaits. There is a very slow bass bite on dropshots or craws fishing very slowly on bluff walls or points. Report by Randal Frisbie, Central Texas Fishing Guide, LLC. Lake Travis is continuing to produce bass. Topwaters are working well along the banks with chunk rock and in the marinas and deep coves along with a crankbait and spoons. Working ledges and drops with shaky heads with trick worms and Texas rigged four and five inch worms are working as well. Drag worms in jigs out on deeper ledges to get some big bites. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.

Waco

SLOW. Water stained; 78 degrees; 11.99 feet above pool. Bank angling opportunities off of McLaughlin Road. The Bosque Park ramp is open. Anglers are catching crappie, blue catfish, channel catfish, yellow catfish, white bass, hybrids, stripers and largemouth bass. Catfish are being caught on cut and prepared baits. Most other species are being caught on live bait including shad. The U.S. Corps of Engineers parks and ramps are closed due to flood damage. The lake is still over 16 feet above conservation and releasing about 6700 cfs.

Walter E. Long

GOOD. Water normal stain; 82 degrees. Bass are good with numbers being caught mainly on worms, but a swimbait, moving baits like crankbaits, wakebaits and spinnerbaits are working as well when there is a good amount of bait in the water. The frog bite is picking up as well. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs. Bass are good with a top water bite early in the morning until the clouds burn off. Fishing around grass beds with plastics and soft swim baits has been the ticket as well. Some schooling activity out in the deep water. Fish have been staying up on the surface longer when there is minimal wind. Small shad imitating baits has been working well on the schoolies. Overall, the lake is fishing very well right now and you can catch them a number of ways. Report by Carson Conklin, ATX Fishing. The shell cracker, crappie and panfish anglers all seem to be catching good numbers. Bass fishing has been good, averaging around 30 a trip using worms in the grass. Some can be caught throwing spinnerbaits, some glide baits for bigger fish, some jerkbaits over the grass. The water clarity still pretty good 3-4 feet. Report by David Townsend, Austin Fishing Guide.

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