South Texas Plains Region Week of June 5, 2024

Braunig

GOOD. Water stained, 99 degrees. Redfish are fair trolling near the dam with spoons, and fair for bank anglers. Catfish around weeds and rock line on cut bait and cheese bait. Bass are fair in the weeds on soft plastics. Report by Harry Lamb, Alamo Texas Fishing.

Calaveras

GOOD. Water slightly stained, 95 degrees. Redfish are good from the bank with shrimp and live bait, or trolling plastics and spoons. Blue catfish are good out in the lake off drop-offs. Channel catfish are on rock lines cut bait and cheese bait. No report on bass. Report by Harry Lamb, Alamo Texas Fishing.

Choke Canyon

GOOD. Water stained; 85 degrees; 29.14 feet below pool. Bass are fair to good in shallow water out to 10 feet using flukes and soft plastic worms, shad colored crankbaits. Very little topwater action. As the day warms fish in 8-12 feet of water. Catfish are good on cut bait or stink bait in 15-30 feet of water. Crappie are good in brush piles in 20-30 feet of water on minnows or grubs. Report by Scott Springer, Fish Choke Canyon Lake.

Corpus Christi Lake

FAIR. 80 degrees; 10.21 feet below pool. Fishing remains pretty slow, lake level is right around 35-percent and most of the boat ramps are dry, so call to check ramp status before heading out. Catfish are good on wind blown shorelines using nightcrawlers and cheese bait. Drum are good on wind blown shorelines on nightcrawlers. Alligator gar are good on cut carp in the river channel. Crappie are slow. Largemouth are slow. Report provided by Captain Damian Hubbs, Top Gun Outfitters. The boat ramp at Lake Corpus Christi State Park is scheduled to close Saturday, June 8, due to low lake levels. There are still opportunities to fish from the pier or the bank.

Falcon

GOOD. Water stained; 75 degrees; 49.30 feet below pool. Fishing patterns are similar and the water continues to drop. The best place to launch is at the State Park off the gravel and rock points while the lake level is low. Bass are excellent with numbers being caught in 15-20 feet of water casting to shallow rocky areas with deep diving crankbaits, football jigs, and dropshots. Catfish are good with catches up to 30 pounds on muddy flats leading into the river channel in 3-10 feet of water with fresh cut bait on a santee rig or Kentucky rig to keep the bait out of the mud. Keeper catfish are good using small shad or shrimp fished in 12-25 feet of water on deep structure in the river channel. Crappie are slow. Bowfishing for gar is excellent with numerous catches over 7 feet on the south end. Rod and reel anglers are catching gar up to 3 feet with cut carp and tilapia. Report by Ram Reyes, Ram Outdoors.

Texana

FAIR. Water stained; 75 degrees; 0.17 feet below pool. High winds and stormy weather have anglers off the water. The lake is at full elevation again and inflows have the usually clear north portion muddied.

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