Freshwater Weekly Fishing Report Week of June 11, 2025

Alan Henry

FAIR. Water clear; 76 degrees; 0.67 feet below pool. Crappie are fair in 25-40 feet on jigs and minnows. Report by The Bait Shop, Post, Texas.

Amistad

GREAT. Water normal stain; 82 degrees; 68.09 feet below pool. White bass are good off points early, moving deeper midday. Catfish are good in 4-6 feet in murky water on punch bait. Report by Shon Riley, Lake Amistad Fishing Guides.

Arlington

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.71 feet above pool. Conditions are still the same. The lake has received a lot of rain so the clarity is stained. Bass continue to be shallow, or on deep points with crankbaits.

Arrowhead

FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.08 feet below pool. The catfish bite has improved some. A lot of the mature catfish are spawning. Numbers of eater size catfish can be caught on punch bait. Report by Brandon Brown, Brown’s Guide Service.

Athens

GOOD. Water normal stain; 80 degrees; 0.97 feet above pool. Bass are good in 8-12 feet of water in grass with Texas rigged worms, wacky rigged senkos, and crankbaits. Crappie are slow on small jigs over brush. Report by Reagan Nelson, Lake Athens Bass Guide.

Austin

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.51 feet below pool. Summertime patterns are in play on Lake Austin. Bass are deep around bait and setting up on brush piles. Early morning bites can be found on the bank and as the day goes on fish are pulling out deeper around creek mouths and open water. Small swimbaits, dropshots, Texas rigs and shaky heads fished deep are getting bites. Quite a bit of grass growing deeper on both ends of the lake. Lightweight Texas rigs fished deep are getting bites. Report by Carson Conklin, ATX Fishing.

B.A. Steinhagen

FAIR. Water stain; 80 degrees; 0.27 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms.

Bastrop

GREAT. Water stained; 80 degrees. Lake Bastrop is fishing well. Bass are schooling up in the mornings in the discharge. Throw small swimbaits, flukes, jerkbaits and Texas-rigged worms or a shaky head. Later move out off the dam to find some schoolies and throw topwaters or cranks or a tiny jighead and 2 inch minnow style bait. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs. Summer pattern has locked in, so slow your approach. A good summertime pattern is to target bass dragging the bottom with Alabama rigs in 20 feet of water. The schooling activity has slowed and fish are deep. A few fish can be caught in patchy grass and reeds the first and last two hours of the day. Continue to cast clear topwaters, shad colored squarebill crankbaits, or Alabama rigs rolled extremely slow off the bottom.

Belton

FAIR. Water stained; 81 degrees; 1.53 feet below pool. Belton rose another half a foot since last week thank to abundant rain and releases from Lake Proctor. Fishing for white bass has gotten tougher now that young-of-the-year shad are in abundance, and the water is stratifying as the thermocline develops. Best success will be during the first few hours of light in the morning and again in the last hour of light on either side of sunset. Covering ground by downrigging with a 3-armed umbrella rig equipped with #13 Pet Spoons and keeping a close eye on depth so as to keep the balls about 3 feet off bottom was the key to finding scattered fish. The MAL Heavy with silver blade and chartreuse tail continued to produce well this week as I fished it after locating fish by downrigging. It shows up remarkably well on forward-facing sonar and 2-D sonar. Drop it either to the bottom if fish are on bottom, or below the level of suspended fish, and crank it up at a steady cadence at least two cranks above the fish showing highest in the water column. If a chase occurs, keep cranking at that same steady cadence until the fish either catches it, or turns away. When a strike occurs, keep right on cranking without a hard hookset. Some topwater action is also taking place, although it has not become predictable. Be on the lookout for herons feeding repetitively over open water, then go in stealthily for a look so as not to spook the fish and push them off the surface. Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service. Catfish are fair. Anglers should expect slower activity while catfish are spawning. Shallow water around timber with fresh shad or prepared bait can produce smaller blue catfish under 10 pounds. Flatheads catfish are fair on live bluegill around river mouths and log piles. Report by Brian Worley, B&S Catfishing.

Benbrook

GOOD. Water stained; 78 degrees; 1.37 feet above pool. Hybrid striped bass are good on live bait off ledges and humps, many catches of undersized fish. Catfish are good on cut shad and punch baits. Crappie are good on small jigs and minnows. Report by Hundley’s Guide Service.

Bob Sandlin

GOOD. Water stained; 82 degrees; 0.62 feet above pool. Crappie are loaded on the brush piles in all depths hitting jigs. White bass are numerous cruising around deeper structures and will hit almost anything. Catfish have been slower this week, but should start biting in 15-20 feet of water on stink bait. Bass are in a summer pattern biting early morning and late night around lights. Lots of spotted bass and yellow bass are being caught right now too. Report by Chris Caswell, Lake Bob Sandlin Crappie Fishing Guide. Check out the backs of coves for hydrilla and milfoil, fish patterns should draw bass out from cover. Top water patterns in lilies should be good at midday.. Catfish are moving shallow, wooly buggers should work well. Clousers on sunny rocky shores might draw a strike. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service. Crappie are excellent schooling on timber in 10-30 feet of water. Minnows are preferred over jigs. The quality of fish is phenomenal. Report by River Bottom Boys Guide Service.

Bois d'Arc

GOOD. water normal stain; 83 degrees; 1.67 feet above pool. Morning bass bite is good on points and flats with bushes using weedless topwaters, buzzbaits and popping frogs. There is a good bass bite in pond weed with popping or walking frogs 1-4 feet. Offshore bite has picked up as fish transition to pond dams and brush in 17-25 feet of water with Carolina rigs, Texas rigs and deep crankbaits. Report by Marc Mitchell, Lake Fork Guide Service. Crappie are excellent on timber from 15-30 feet of water. Minnows are out performing jigs. Report by River Bottom Boys Guide Service.

Brady

FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 15.11 feet below pool. The lake is very low and ramps are closed. There is a temporary use ramp available. It is possible to catch crappie and bass from the crappie house and from the bank.

Braunig

FAIR. Water stained, 93 degrees. Redfish are good trolling in 5-10 feet of water or 15-20 feet of water with gold and silver spoons. Redfish are excellent off the bank, as well as tilapia, crawfish, fresh minnows, and a few catfish. Stripers are slow. Report by Manny Martinez, Fishing With Manny.

Bridgeport

FAIR. Water stained; 81 degrees; 0.32 feet above pool. Crappie bite is fair on dock poles and brush piles. Largemouth bite is decent shallow using jigs, crankbaits, and soft plastic texas rig baits, the white bass topwater bite is on and hybrids are good on points and main lake humps with slabs or live shad. Catfish bite is good on cut bait. Report by Jack Pellegrini, Lake Bridgeport Crappie Guide Service.

Brownwood

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 81 degrees; 0.48 feet above pool. Black bass to 6.19 pounds are good in 3-25 feet of water on spinnerbaits and topwaters. Bass have moved into an early summer pattern with some schooling in small wolf packs. Crappie are good to 12 inches on minnows and jigs in 18-25 feet of water on deeper large docks with brush on the main lake. White bass are good to 2 pounds on crankbaits out of the lights at night with some schooling early and late. Catfish are fair on cut shad, nightcrawlers and chicken livers on the main lake flats.

Bryan

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees. Brush piles have been a huge factor to catch bass after the shad spawn. Bass can still be caught shallow, but offshore points and rock have produced the best. Report by the Aggie Anglers.

Buchanan

EXCELLENT. Water slight stain; 76 degrees; 15.83 feet below pool. Boating hazards are prevalent on the north end after the recent inflow, so exercise caution while boating. The shad spawn is still going but not lake wide and they are holding just off the bank on some rocky shorelines. The white bass and striper are around the spawn and are biting on just about anything thrown. Several days last week there were abundant top water white bass schools and a few stripers. The stripers are biting excellent on live shad in 9-45 feet of water. White bass continue to bite on slabs and soft plastics 20-36 feet of water on wind-blown points and humps. The trolling bite for stripers has picked up but has not had a day to day consistency. Report by Travis Holland, TH Fishing. Garrett Island and North is extremely muddy. Catfish are good at the mouth of the river in 2-10 feet of water in the current with cut bait. Hybrids and stripers are hitting umbrella rigs in 15-30 feet of water, or live bait in 30-50 feet of water over sand points and trees. Increased topwater and trolling action. Report by Captain Aaron Dick, One Up Fishing Guide Service. Bigger bass are being caught on rock piles in 5-15 feet on jigs, swimbaits and most Texas-rigged soft plastics. Flipping trees is good right now as well with flukes and craws. The topwater bite is starting to turn on as well and you can catch some big bass throwing around rocky points and shallow ledges. Crankbaits are always a good choice as well. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good in 15-20 feet of water around standing timber and main lake points. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service.

Caddo

SLOW. Water stained; 84 degrees; 1.00 feet above pool. The recent rains paired with more rain in the forecast may have the water level on the rise and clarity muddy near the river and bayou. It is a shad bite right now for main lake bass, so focus on grass or lily pad clumps with shad. Throw a fluke, frog, weedless topwater, swimbait, topwater, plopper or light Texas rig. Tree bass are being caught on senkos, big worms, frogs and chatterbaits. The best locations currently will be in the river as long as it does not get too muddy. Lake is looking very healthy and it is always a good time to come see this lake that is so majestic and divine we call Caddo. Report provided by Vince Richards, Caddo Lake Fishing & Fellowship.

Calaveras

GREAT. Water stained, 92 degrees. Fishing is excellent for redfish trolling with shrimp, with gold and silver spoons, and hoagie bait. Catfish are excellent all over the lake with stink bait in 15-25 feet deep. Fish are averaging 5-20 pounds. Report by Manny Martinez, Fishing With Manny.

Canyon Lake

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 78 degrees; 31.80 feet below pool. Striped bass and white bass are good fishing humps on the lower end and long drawn out points in 20-30 feet of water with shad colored swimbaits and jigging spoons. Bass are excellent around the grass with topwaters in the morning and your favorite plastics during the day. Report by Charles Whited, Barefoot Fishing Tours.

Cedar Creek

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 81 degrees; 0.46 feet above pool. The hybrid striped bass and white bass bite is on fire and with fish on a feeding frenzy! Start looking for these fish on flats throughout the lake and on edges of drop-offs, especially on cloudy and overcast days. Focus on drop-offs and along seawalls early in the mornings in 5-14 feet of water with slabs. Reports of great catches in 17–26 feet of water using silver or white slabs and spinnerbaits off the bottom with a very slow retrieve. The crappie have also migrated back into the main lake. Look for fish under bridge pylons or under docks in 3-10 feet. Guides have been reporting exceptionally nice catches on sunny warmer days. Report by Brent Herbeck, Herbeck’s Lonestar Fishing Guide Service. Numbers of catfish can be caught targeting humps in 10-20 feet of water, but there are a lot of small fish. Bigger fish can be caught drifting cut shad, carp, drum or bream. Report by Jason Barber, Kings Creek Adventures.

Choke Canyon

SLOW. Water stained; 84 degrees; 35.39 feet below pool. All boat ramps are still closed at this time, but it is possible to fish from the bank. Catfish and channels are excellent. Crappie and a few bass are being caught off the bank. Kayaks, flat bottoms, and john boats are allowed, but are very low at this time. Report by Manny Martinez, Fishing With Manny.

Cisco

GREAT. Water stained; 75 degrees; 13.17 feet below pool. Overall the lake is fishing great. Crappie are being caught in 10 feet of water. Channel catfish are biting in less than 10 feet of water. Report by Lake Cisco Rentals.

Coleman

FAIR. Water normal stain; 82 degrees; 0.17 feet below pool. Black bass to 2 pounds are good in 10-20 feet of water around the lake off points with a minnow. Crappie are excellent to 14 inches on minnows in 8-15 feet under docks. Hybrid bass are good to 6 pounds on squarebill crankbaits in the lighted docks. Catfish are slow on prepared bait, nightcrawlers and chicken livers.

Coleto Creek

GOOD. Water slightly stained, 87 degrees; 1.43 feet below. Bass are fair at 2-8 feet. Soft plastics are still best with red shad color working well. Few fish on crank baits. Report by Scott Springer, Fish Choke Canyon Lake.

Comanche Creek

0.80 feet above pool. Comanche Creek is closed for the summer and will reopen in October.

Conroe

GREAT. Water stained; 86 degrees; 0.01 feet above pool. Catfish are outstanding in 10-40 feet of water. Catfish are spawning, so they are structure oriented and when you find them there are a lot of them. Bass have been good on wind blown points, bream beds and structure from 5-25 feet. Crappie have been fair at best when you can find them. Livescoping using jigs seems to work best. Bream, or bluegill, are everywhere. Report by Bradley Doyle, Bradley’s Guide Service. Hybrids and white bass are on flats and drop-offs in 16-34 feet of water using live large goldfish or minnows, slabs, spoons, and crankbaits. I have been removing one of the treble hooks to make it easier when action is good. Check the tooth patch to distinguish the difference between the two species. Juvenile hybrids are prominent as well as large white bass. Always wear your life jacket! Report by Mike Cason, Fishical Therapy.

Cooper

GOOD. Water stained; 77 degrees: 2.00 feet below pool. Crappie are good in 10-20 feet of water on timber and brush piles. Minnows are outperforming jigs. Report by River Bottom Boys Guide Service.

Corpus Christi Lake

SLOW. 80 degrees; 14.85 feet below pool. The lake level is very low with mild wind conditions in the mornings becoming windier towards the afternoon. Some reports of blue catfish and yellow catfish averaging between 3-40 pounds. Report by Weber’s Landing.

Cypress Springs

FAIR: Water normal stain; 78 degrees; 0.67 feet above pool. Crappie are loaded on the brush piles in all depths hitting jigs. White bass are numerous cruising around deeper structures and will hit almost anything. Catfish have been slower this week, but should start biting in 15-20 feet of water on stink bait. Bass are in a summer pattern biting early morning and late night around lights. Lots of spotted bass and yellow bass are being caught right now too. Report by Chris Caswell, Lake Bob Sandlin Crappie Fishing Guide. Crappie are excellent on brush piles and docks but you will have to weed through numbers of small fish to catch a limit. Minnows are outperforming jigs. Report by River Bottom Boys Guide Service.

Eagle Mountain

FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.31 feet above pool. Sand bass are good in 25 feet of water with chartreuse and white slabs with a fle fly. Channel catfish and blue catfish are good on manufactured bait in 26 feet of water on deep water humps and points. Crappie are good on deep water brush piles with jigs and minnows. Perch are biting around the docks with nightcrawlers under a cork. Report by Captain Bobby Mann, Catch a Dream Guide Service.

Falcon

GOOD. Water stained; 71 degrees; 47.04 feet below pool. Black bass are great in 3-15 feet of water on hard bottoms with crankbaits, senkos or power worms. Spinnerbaits are good in shallow water along rocks. Keeper catfish are good in 10-20 feet of water using stink bait, shrimp, or small cut bait. Trophy catfish are fair while fish are in a spawn transition. Target fish 3-15 feet of water with live shad or fresh cut bait. Bow fishing for gar is excellent, and rod and reel is good with cut bait on the south end at the mouth of Tigers Creek. Crappie are slow with fish scattered. Report by Ram Reyes, Ram Outdoors.

Fayette

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 87 degrees. Rain is forecasted through the weekend. Bass are good on the points early then moving deep to a summer depth in 20-30 feet of water hitting deep diving crankbaits, shaky heads and Carolina rigs. Perch are in 10 feet of water on nightcrawlers with catfish mixed in. Report by Mark Fransen, Fransen’s Guide Service.

Fork

GOOD. Water Stained; 82 degrees; 0.38 feet above pool. Morning bass bite is good on main lake points with topwaters. There is a good bite with frogs and buzzbaits around grass or flooded weeds. Target points and flats mid-morning with square bill crankbaits in 3-5 feet of water. Midday the offshore bite has been good with fish on road beds, points, high spots and hard bottoms. Carolina rigs are best in 15-25 feet. Report by Marc Mitchell, Lake Fork Guide Service. Lily fields are filling in, hydrilla and milfoil are reaching for the surface. Fish this type of cover at midday when bass are seeking cover. Frog patterns are working in the shallow vegetation early and late. Drop a clouser on an isolated cover for black bass. Large bream have moved shallow, wooly buggers are producing good fish. Channel catfish are cruising 2-4 feet, clousers are a good choice. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service. Crappie fishing on Lake Fork is heating up just like the temperatures. The fish are really ganging up on the structure in 14-32 feet. White crappie are in timber and brush piles. Black crappie are loaded up on rock piles, tire reefs, brush piles, laydowns, underwater bridges, road beds, docks and regular bridges. Not every structure has fish on it, but the ones that do tend to have a lot. Still seeing tons of fish just under 10 inches but the larger fish are joining the smaller fish more and more each week. Crappie are still biting minnows, hand tied jigs and soft plastics. Reports of some crappie biting larger bass baits when anglers are fishing in areas with a large concentration of bigger crappie. It is a great time to get out and load the cooler with some tasty slabs. Report by Jacky Wiggins, Jacky Wiggins Guide Service.

Ft. Phantom Hill

FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 4.32 feet below pool. Few reports from anglers. Bass are in all stages of the spawn hitting creature baits and soft plastics. Crappie can be caught with minnows or jigs in shade and brush.

Georgetown

GOOD. normal stain; 77 degrees; 10.13 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.

Graham

FAIR. Water stained; 76 degrees; 0.06 feet above pool. Water is still high and muddy. Bass are slow feeding on shad in shallow water. Crappie are good on brush in 14 feet of water with minows and jigs. Sand bass and hybrids are schooling on the main lake points feeding on shad. The bite is good with minnows and spoons. Catfish are on the main lake flats feeding on shad. The bite is good on cut shad and chicken liver.

Granbury

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.23 feet below pool. Water is stained slightly on the upper ends, but is generally clear from midlake to the dam. After the recent rains the lake is full pool, so watch for floating debris. Striped bass and sand bass can be caught near channel breaks near feeding flats at several locations from Ports–O-Call to Sandy Point and near the dam. Bigger striped bass are being taken on 1ounce slabs and live shad fished mainly on the lower ends from Decordova to near the pump stations close to the dam. Smaller stripers and sand bass are easily being caught on slabs and spinnerbaits all over the lake from Bentwater to Blue Water Shores. Largemouth bass are good to 6 pounds on soft plastics and lipless crankbaits fished in the back of sloughs and near main lake points. Look for topwater action on feeding flats. Crappies are holdings to structure near deeper docks, underwater timber and near bridge pilings and are good on small minnows and jigs. Blue catfish continue to be good from Water’s Edge to Hunter Park on cut shad. An occasional bigger blue or yellow catfish to 25 pounds plus are possible. Report by Michael Acosta, Unfair Advantage Charters.

Granger

GOOD. Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 0.92 feet above pool. Black bass are fair on plastic worms fished in shallow water. Crappie are good on minnows fished over brush piles in 7-10 feet of water. White bass are slow. Blue catfish are good on jug lines baited with shad or cut bait. Yellow catfish are good on live bait. Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.

Grapevine

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 5.53 feet above pool. White bass are in all depths feeding on shad. Use inline spinners shallow and slabs in deeper water. Keep an eye out for birds working. Really nice catfish mixed in with the white bass. Check ramp status before heading out. Report by Omar Cotter, Luck O’the Irish Fishing Guide Service.

Greenbelt

SLOW. Water normal stain; 75 degrees; 47.67 feet below pool. Reports of good catches of sand bass on minnows. Few reports of crappie. The lake did receive some rain, but be sure to call to inquire about launching conditions before heading out.

Hawkins

GOOD. Water slightly stained. 80 degrees. Topwater lures early and late will produce good black bass action. Bream should be making their move shallow for their spawn. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service.

Houston County

FAIR. Water stained; 78 degrees; 0.53 feet above pool. Bass should start schooling in deeper water hitting Carolina rigs and crankbaits. Crappie should be on brush piles biting jigs or minnows.

Hubbard Creek

FAIR. Water Stained; 80 degrees; 11.69 feet below pool. Bass are fair with primarily smaller sized fish up to 3 pounds. The best bite is early morning in shallow water spinnerbaits or chatterbaits. Crappie are good under docks hitting minnows or jigs. A bass was caught while targeting crappie.

Inks

GREAT: Water normal stain; 80 degrees; 0.85 feet below pool. Inks Lake has been fishing well all year for bass. Working the grass with worms or flukes will land a good bite. Skipping docks is a great way to get some big bites as well. A frog in the shallows will get some big bites and a shallow crankbait or even dropshots around the bulkheads will get some good bites as well. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.

Jacksonville

GOOD. Water stained; 81 degrees; 0.40 feet above pool. The north end of the lake is muddy due to recent rains. Bass are good on soft plastics and jigs around docks and brush out to 14 feet. There is some topwater action, and flukes are landing fish around the bank.

Joe Pool

GREAT. Water normal stain; 80 degrees; 1.50 above pool. Bass can be caught shallow, mid depths, and deep. There is a good topwater bite or they are eating your favorite soft plastics and shad style flukes. Crappie can still be caught using crappie jigs or minnows. White bass schools are still popping up here and there. You cannot catch a fish if you without going fishing. Wear your life jacket. Report by Gilbert Miller, GTB Outdoors.

Lake O' the Pines

GOOD. Water normal stain; 83 degrees; 2.26 feet above pool. Bass are still good on main lake points and bridges. Look for large bait balls on your graph and the white bass and largemouth bass will be close by. The best bite has been early, midday and 1-2 hours before dark. Good go to baits will be crankbaits, Carolina rigs, football jigs and large shakey head worms, but keep a topwater or lipless bait close and watch for schoolers. Have fun and be safe! Crappie are starting to stack up on standing timber and brush piles 12-20 feet of water. Crappie are starting to prefer minnows over jigs. Catfish are starting to move out to 8-15 feet of water especially around river and creek channels best baits are punch baits, dough bait, cut bait or catawba worms. Report by Brian Vickery Fishing.

Lavon

GOOD. Water lightly stained; 75 degrees; 2.34 feet above pool. Gates continue to be open with no changes to the patterns. Fish early morning while sand bass are surfacing blowing shad out of the water using topwaters or a swimbait. The white egrets will be on the banks telling you pretty much where they should be. If you are not getting bit within the first 30 minutes of sunlight, you will probably have to move out to 10-20 feet of water and use 1 ounce white or chartreuse slabs. While the gates are opening and closing the crappie bite is hit-or-miss. Look on timber and brush piles in 10-20 feet. Once the gates close this should be the pattern for the rest of the summer. Start shallow and work your way deeper to search for fish. Channel catfish are good on baited holes, rip rap and brush. Bait the rocks and bushes with soured grain to hold fish in there long enough to catch limits. Black bass are biting white and chartreuse spinnerbaits in the morning around the rip wrap, concrete and shallow submerged brush on points and secondary points. Bass are not biting at the back of the coves anymore. Cast creature baits, and Texas rigged worms on rock piles and large brush piles, or underwater points in 10-15 feet of water Carolina rigs. Report by Carey Thorn, White Bass Fishing Texas.

LBJ

GOOD. Water stained; 75 degrees; 0.28 feet below pool. Crappie are fair in 18-24 feet of water with minnows. Catfish are good in 25 feet of water with punch bait. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service. Bass are good on docks and bulkheads in 3-10 feet of water skipping a light jig or Texas-rigged fluke or worm. Some fish can be caught on rock and brush piles in 10 feet of water using soft plastics. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.

Lewisville

FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 2.47 feet above pool. White bass are fair on points and humps in 15-32 feet of water with slabs, spoons, spinnerbaits and live bait. Keeper sized hybrid stripers are fair in similar depths. If you are keeping fish, please be aware that there are a lot of undersized hybrid stripers in the lake that look very similar to a white bass. Blue catfish are good on cut shad anchored or drifting humps and flats in 15-32 feet of water. Crappie are fair in 8-28 feet of water on brush piles, submerged timber, and submerged cover near drop-offs with minnows and jigs. Report by Wes Campbell, BendARod Fishing.

Limestone

GOOD. Water normal stain; 84 degrees; 0.17 feet above pool. Crappie are in 10-18 feet of water on power lines, standing timber, or offshore brush with minnows. White bass are in 7-17 feet of water with super slabs. Catfish are good in 10-20 feet with cutbait, or large minnows. Largemouth bass are good in 4-14 feet of water with boat docks, bulkheads, and rocks with chatterbaits, Texas rigs, Carolina rigs, and spinnerbaits. Report by Colan Gonzales, Lake Limestone Guide Service.

Livingston

GOOD. normal stain; 76 degrees; 0.39 feet above pool. White bass are great in 6-15 feet of water on wind blown points and ledges with white and chartreuse slabs. Catfish are in 1-4 feet of water on bulkheads with best action at daylight. Report by Michael Richardson, Lake Livingston Adventures.

Marble Falls

normal stain; 76 degrees; 0.59 feet below pool. Bass are good skipping docks with craws, flukes and worms, or cranking bulkheads and shallow rocks. Topwater action is good with frogs and topwaters. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.

Martin Creek

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 89 degrees; 0.00 feet full pool. Bass are fair to good along the edge of hydrilla with Texas rigged worms and small swimbaits. Crappie are good suspended in brush piles in 25-30 feet of water using minnows, or imitation minnows with ¼ ounce jig heads. Catfish are good in areas baited with ranch cubes using punch bait and nightcrawlers. Sand bass remain good on jigging spoons. You can find schools along the submerged county line road bed. Tight lines! Report by Hambone guide service.

Medina

SLOW. Water lightly stained; 74 degrees; 94.41 feet below pool. Few reports and anglers on the water due to limited access and low water level.

Meredith

FAIR. Water stained; 68 degrees; 46.14 feet below pool. Sand bass are great throughout the lake with silver spoon lures, and artificial grubs in chartreuse, pearl blue and yellow. Catfish are good near Harbor Bay and Bugbee with cut bait and frozen shad. The Stilling Basin, or Spring Canyon, is producing catfish with chicken liver, minnows, worms, and shrimp. Crappie are great with the best bite on Rosie red minnows near Sanford Yake area, off of the dock, and a few fish pulled out of Bugbee in the shallow areas. Bluegill and perch are good underneath the docks and shallow areas around the lake with worms. Walleye are great in the evening hours and early mornings in many areas of the lake. Minnows, bottom bouncers or floating worm harnesses, chartreuse, red mouth jerkbait or slab spoons are great choices. Trout are good in Spring Canyon with a power bait and number 10 snell hook or split shots. Report by Dave Wright, Wright-On Bait, Tackle and Watercraft Rental.

Millers Creek

FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 1.43 feet below pool. Crappie have improved to fair in 3-4 feet of water. Fish are a few weeks from spawning. Sand bass are fair around the dam when shad are surfacing. Shad are spawning so the bite should improve the bite for all species. Channel and blue catfish are slow in 15 feet of water. Black bass are slow on main lake points with soft plastics.

Nacogdoches

GOOD. Water stained; 83 degrees; 0.05 feet above pool. Largemouth bass are fair on glide, baits, and bladed jigs up shallow. Crappie are excellent on standing timber and brush piles in like 15-25 feet of water deep piles. Report by Cal Cameron, Cal’s ETX Guide Service.

Naconiche

GOOD. Water stained; 82 degrees; 0.50 feet above pool. Bass are suspended 8 feet down over deeper water biting jerkbaits plus 1. Keep an eye on the thermocline and be sure to fish above it. Some larger bites in 8-10 feet of water near the bottom with a square bill crankbait. Cranking it in and around the timber that is immediately adjacent to the boat lanes near the backs of the creeks was the ticket. Do not forget to run an Alabama rig and topwater, early and late, for some aggressive feeding fish! Crappie population is good. Catfish are slow. Report by Eric Wolfe, NacoTack Fishing Services. Largemouth bass are excellent on dropshots and Carolina rigs on grassy points. Crappie are excellent on standing timber and small brush piles with white crappie jigs. Catfish are poor on cut bait and live minnows. Report by Cal Cameron, Cal’s ETX Guide Service.

Nasworthy

FAIR. Water slightly stained; 79 degrees. 1.03 feet below pool. The bass bite has been good flipping soft plastics around reed bases in 1-3 feet of water. The spawn is ending and bass are staying in the shallows as the water temperature rises to the 80s. The key is to cover water until you find a good stretch that holds multiple bass. Focus on holes in the reed banks where bass will set up on their beds. Watch for balls of bass fry because a fry guarder will be close by. Crappie were fair around main lake boat docks on chartreuse jigs and catfish were fair on cut bait and stink bait around river channel bends. Report provided by the Angelo State Fishing Team.

Navarro Mills

GOOD. Water stained; 75 degrees; 1.57 feet above pool. White bass are slow and difficult to find. Crappie are slower on brush piles hitting jigs or minnows. Largemouth bass are good around the docks with some mainlake. Catfish are good for eaters with shad and perch. Report by Navarro Mills Marina.

O.C. Fisher

SLOW. Water stained; 80 degrees; 37.15 feet below pool. Few reports and anglers fishing due to low lake levels.

O.H. Ivie

FAIR. Water slightly stained; 77 degrees; 22.72 feet below pool. Black bass are fair with catches up to 10 pounds possible in 5-15 feet of water. Main players are white chartreuse Hags Hurricanes With matching trailer source and white/chartreuse. Topwater lures like bone colored whopper ploppers or Hags Outlier Frogs are working around shallow cover. Crappie are fair on a variety of minnows and small red and white jig heads suspended in 5-15 feet of water. White bass are biting at night on minnows under the lights. Catfish are good on a variety of cheese as stink baits in 3-15 feet of water. Report by Wendell Ramsey, Ramsey Fishing.

Oak Creek

SLOW. Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 18.95 feet below pool. Black bass bite is good to very good on topwater and crankbaits. The Whopper Plopper has been excellent along with deep diving crankbaits. Crappie bite is steady with schools being located using forward facing sonar and caught using the Bone Head jigs. Catfish are good. Always wear your life jacket and stay aware. Report by Bronte Guns and Tackle Pro Staff.

Palestine

GOOD. Water stained; 74 degrees; 1.13 feet above pool. Crappie are good on brush and timber in 12-22 feet of water. White bass and hybrids are good on clay points early and late in the day. Catfish are spawning with a good bite on bulkheads or rip rap and nightcrawlers and punch bait.

Palo Pinto

SLOW. Water stained; 75 degrees; 0.50 feet above pool. Water clarity is muddy after the recent rains. Blue catfish are slow on fresh cut bait or fresh in the running water in Lake Creek and Palo Pinto Creek. A few reports of yellow catfish being caught. Sand bass and the hybrids are biting slow. Report by Lake Palo Pinto RV Park.

Pinkston

GOOD. slightly stained; 83 degrees. Largemouth bass are fair on dropshots, Carolina rigs on points. Crappie are good on sanding timber and small brush piles in 15-25 feet of water on crappie jigs. and Catfish are poor on cut bait. Report by Cal Cameron, Cal’s ETX Guide Service.

Possum Kingdom

FAIR. Water slightly stained; 82 degrees; 0.10 feet above pool. Stripers are fair in 20-40 feet of water. The best bite has been live bait but it can be difficult to find. There has been good steady action with the occasional slowdown. Best bet is to just sit and wait for them to move through and catch a few then wait for the next school. Sand bass are fair in 15-20 feet of water on main lake points. Chrome and white seem to be out producing all other colors. Catfish are good on cut shad in 2-10 feet of water fished on the bottom. Baited holes are your best bet to catch numbers but will not produce big fish. Bait with cattle cubes and wait 2-3 hours before fishing. Use punch bait for best results on baited holes. Catfish should be going into spawn soon so it should start to slow down until they are done spawning. Water clarity is less than 1 foot on the north end, but the south end is better at 3-6 feet of visibility. Report by TJ Ranft, Ranft Guide Service.

Proctor

FAIR. Water stained; 76 degrees; 0.95 feet above pool. The water is above full pool and fishing has slowed some for anglers. Reports of white bass caught trolling in shallow water. Crappie are transitioning to brush piles.

Raven

SLOW. Water slight stain; 70 degrees. Lake Raven water clarity is slightly stained. The lake is seeing hydrilla die back due to recent herbicide treatment. Largemouth bass are good on weedless rigged artificial worms in red-tinted colors with glitter. Anglers should target the cove where the boathouse is located. This area has seen recent success when working the hydrilla grass line. No reports of crappie or catfish in recent weeks. Bluegill are good off of the boathouse dock on hotdogs and worms under a bobber.

Ray Hubbard

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.28 feet below pool. White bass are excellent in the mornings with surface activity common on the flats. Throw small swimbaits, tail spinners or rattle traps. Later in the morning white bass are moving out to deeper water on long points, road beds and levees. Crappie are relating to brush piles in 12-18 feet of water. Crappie are showing up at bridge columns and moving around drop-offs going from structure to structure. Catfish are good in wooded timber 15-18 feet of water prepared punch bait. Chumming will help bring the schools into your areas. Report by John Varner, John Varner's Guide Service.

Ray Roberts

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 80 degrees; 1.82 feet above pool. Crappie are scattered and slow after the recent rain. Crappie are good in brush piles and timber in 18-25 feet of water. Largemouth bass are offshore in 18-25 feet of water primarily on rock piles with 10 inch worms, crankbaits and football jigs. A few bass on timber at dawn and dusk weightless flukes or weightless senkos. Sand bass are on humps and points in 25-40 feet of water with slabs. Blue catfish are good in 20 feet of water. Channel catfish are good in 10-25 feet of water on flats. Report by Daniel Koberna, Lt. Dan’s Crappie Co.

Richland Chambers

FAIR. Water normal stain; 82 degrees; 0.77 feet above pool. The lake is 6 inches above full pool level with four of the twenty-four spillway gates open. White bass are slow with few schooling on the surface early morning on the 309 flats. Hybrid stripers are good with live shad off the 309 flats and Windsock Point. Blue catfish are fair with cut bait and shad in shallow water off windblown points. Channel catfish can be caught on punch bait below schools of feeding white bass. Crappie action is slow. Report by Royce Simmons, Gone Fishin' Guide Service. Black bass are fair using deep crankbaits, jigs, and dragging plastics. Boat docks continue to get better and better on the lake. Be sure to target bass on stump rows, rock piles, and brush piles. Typically the fish transition deeper in June, but with the higher water level there are always some fish shallow also. Report by Terry Hawkins Guide Service.

Sam Rayburn

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.45 feet above pool. Rain in the forecast and water continues to be released. Numbers of bass are shallow in the buckbrush, so flip plastics and jigs. Topwater bite around pencil grass and reeds. Grass and pads are coming back slowly. Target bass on points and drains with crankbaits, or with jigs and Carolina rigs off ledges and structure. Crappie are slowly move out to brush and timber. White bass are schooling off points. Catfish move out to deeper water and creek channels cut bait doing good. Report by Captain Lynn Atkinson, Reel Um N Guide Service.

Somerville

GOOD. Water stained; 85 degrees; 0.56 feet above pool. At the Marina the crappie bite is fair, and the catfish are fair on minnows or punch bait. Bluegill are fair on crickets or worms. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows over brush in 8-18 feet of water. Catfish are good in 3-10 feet of water with cut shad or punch bait. Black bass are fair 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.

Spence

SLOW. Water stained; 80 degrees. 47.99 feet below pool. Black bass catches have been improving greatly. The fish are being caught on plastics. Reports of bass caught exceeding 5 pounds, with many in the 2-3 pound range. Good reports of catfish being caught on blood punch bait. Always wear your life jacket and stay aware. Report by Bronte Guns and Tackle Pro Staff.

Stamford

FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 2.26 feet above pool. Water is cleaning and the level is slowly receding. Very few anglers on the water for reports.

Stillhouse

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 2.13 feet below pool. Stillhouse came up another 0.04 feet since last week. The water is warming rapidly and the fish are suspending more and more each day. The two drivers for this are stratification of the water by temperature which will eventually lead to the creation of the thermocline by mid-June, and the increasing presence of young-of-the-year shad making their way into open water. When fish are suspended, I rely heavily on my 2-D sonar, traditional sonar or colored sonar, as the three-dimensional cone it makes use of extends the echo signature of the fish into long arches which are larger and much more easily seen on a screen then the shorter "rice grain" signatures seen on side-imaging and down-imaging. The MAL Heavy with silver blade and chartreuse tail is the only lure I've used for the past four weeks. It shows up remarkably well on forward-facing sonar and 2-D sonar. Drop it either to the bottom if fish are on bottom, or below the level of suspended fish, and crank it up at a steady cadence at least two cranks above the fish showing highest in the water column. If a chase occurs, keep cranking at that same steady cadence until the fish either catches it, or turns away. When a strike occurs, keep right on cranking without a hard hookset. Mornings are best, from 7:20-10:15 a.m. The first few "schoolie" largemouth are beginning to show up on topwater; this is very light and very scattered, but should continue to get more common and widespread as we get into summer. Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.

Tawakoni

GOOD. Water lightly stained; 77 degrees; 0.89 feet above pool. Lake Tawakoni is fishing good and is in its full summer pattern. The hybrid striper and white bass bite is good. Fish are feeding on thread-fin shad suspended over deeper water. Slabs, swimbaits and live bait are working best. The eating sized catfish bite is red hot. Baited holes in 20 feet are working best. Prepared baits such as punch bait and dip baits are catching more fish. Crappie are decent on bridge pilings and shallower brush in 8-14 feet. Docks are also holding fish. Jigs are out-fishing minnows currently. Look for that to chance as water warms into the 80s. Largemouth bite is good. Shallow crankbaits, flukes and frogs are catching best. First hour and last hour for the frog, and the cranks mid morning into the mid day around shallow dock pilings, rip-rap and isolated underwater irrigation pumps. Use your side-imaging to locate these. Report by Captain Michael Littlejohn, Lake Tawakoni Guide Service.

Texana

SLOW. Water stained; 80 degrees; 2.69 feet below pool. Catfish are good on trotlines.

Texoma

FAIR. Water stained; 74 degrees; 10.38 feet above pool. Striper fishing is improving as the lake settles and fish move up in the water column. Fish are suspended in deep water and on shallow humps 15-25 feet of water. Live bait and lures are working on the right day in the right school of fish. Channel catfish are great along rocky banks using punch bait on baited holes in 10-20 feet of water. Blue catfish are in deeper water on dead shad or cut bait suspended above the muddy water near the bottom. Bass fishing will improve as the lake clears up and the fish move to summer patterns with warmer water. Fish flooded brush in the backs of the creeks and near points. Docks and marinas near the south end of the lake will have less murky water. Report by Jacob Orr, Lake Texoma, Guaranteed Guide Service. Striped bass bite is improving on live bait, with some small fish being caught on artificials in 10-30 feet of water. The fishing improves along with the clarity. A few fish are schooling. Report by John Blasingame, Adventure Texoma Outdoors.

Toledo Bend

GOOD. Water stained; 81 degrees; 0.61 feet below pool. It is finally summer time, everything around Toledo is getting right, most storms are gone and the sun is cooking. Bass are good. Shallow fish are still strong on frogs, topwaters, swim jigs and wacky-worms from 2-7 feet of water. The deeper bite is coming on strong in 14-18 feet of water with big crankbaits and Carolina rigs. A few great reports of 7 pound bass being caught at night with spinnerbaits, and buzzbaits along the edge of the flooded grass. Crappie are good on brush piles, standing timber, and main lake docks with jigs or live bait. The water temperature is starting to reach the mid to low 80s, pushing crappie out of the creeks. Report by Stephen Johnston, Johnston Fishing.

Travis

GOOD. Water normal stain; 82 degrees; 43.48 feet below pool. Lake Travis is fishing great. Bass are on the verge of schooling up as the water temperatures rise into the 80s. Most fish are being caught on worms, creature baits, craws and swimbaits or flukes. Look for grass on the channel swings on the main lake for a lot of bass. Some of the bigger bass are on the deeper outer side especially in the isolated patches of grass. There are some good bass on the deeper ledges as well in 15-30 feet of water. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs. Time to fish marinas in 30-40 feet of water for bass, white bass, crappie and bluegill. Grass action for bass has slowed. Bounce between shaded bluff walls with a craw and marinas with small swimbaits and small spoons. The water is crystal clear when there is no wind, so downsize baits. Report by Randal Frisbie, Central Texas Fishing Guide, LLC.

Twin Buttes

SLOW. Water stained. 82 degrees; 33.33 feet below pool. It is now possible to launch from the temporary ramp. Navigate with extreme caution watching for floating debris and obstacles below the surface. Expect the fish to be scattered and slow to bite no distinguishable pattern. Once the water settles the bite will be good. Report by Captain Michael Peterson, 4 Reel Fun Guide Service.

Tyler

GOOD. Water normal stain; 75 degrees; 0.55 feet above pool. Crappie are good on brush piles with minnows and jigs in 10-16 feet of water. Catfish are good in 5-6 feet of water with liver and nightcrawlers. Bass are scattered with a fair topwater bite or feeler with trick worms, spinnerbaits and topwaters. Bream are good on red worms throughout the lake. Report by The Boulders at Lake Tyler. Water is a normal stain, but expect the clarity to be stained after the forecasted rain. Crappie have been in two main patterns with most fish 20 feet deep, but there is a good number of fish in 8-12 feet of water on brush piles. Minnows are outperforming jigs. Bass are great at dawn and dusk on topwater, but this bite shuts off very quickly. Transition to Texas rigs, crankbaits or jerkbaits in 4-15 feet. Catfish are fair on nightcrawlers and prepared bait. Panfish have been good on red worms and crickets. Report by Holton Walker, Holton Walker Fishing.

Waco

GOOD. Water stained; 78 degrees; 0.65 feet above pool. Crappie are on fire in the summer pattern hanging out in 10-18 feet of water on structures. Minnows always work well, but a purple crappie jig with a chartreuse tail is a good artificial. Black bass are suspended over structure in 20 feet of water hitting crankbaits or a silver spoon. Report by Greg Culverhouse, Crappie King.

Walter E. Long

GOOD. Water normal stain; 85 degrees. Water temperatures are in the high mid to high 80s. Water clarity is good. The boat ramp is fully closed and blocked off through 2025, but kayaks and canoes can still be launched from the bank. Water levels are still low but relatively seem to have improved some from recent rains. Techniques that include moving baits like lipless crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, and A-rigs continue to be productive. Weedless-rigged soft plastics are also working well, with Senkos, dropshots, and shaky heads getting bit. Report by Team YAKUSA.

Weatherford

FAIR. Water stained; 79 degrees; 2.98 feet below pool. Crappie are fair in 15 feet of water on brush piles with minnows and jigs. Bass are slow on soft plastics or crankbaits in deeper water. Catfish are fair with cut bait and shad on rocks. Water clarity is 7 inches.

Welsh

FAIR. Water stained. 80 degrees. A few reports and anglers on the water.

White River

FAIR. Water normal stain; 80 degrees; 15.87 feet below pool. Crappie are good 2-8 feet on jigs and minnows. Catfish slow in cut and prepared baits. Report by The Bait Shop, Post, Texas.

Whitney

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 80 degrees; 1.55 feet above pool. Water is lightly stained 76 degrees. Catfish are good using cut bait in 25-30 feet of water. Striped bass bite is fair on live bait in 25-30 feet of water. Crappie are on main lake brush piles in 15-30 feet of water. White bass fishing is good on slabs on main lake humps in 25-30 feet of water. Largemouth bass fishing is good using soft plastics on deep structure. Report by Captain Cory Vinson, Guaranteed Guide Service.

Worth

FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.33 feet above pool. Very few reports after the recent weather.

Wright Patman

GOOD. Water normal stain; 79 degrees; 7.54 feet above pool. Crappie are moving into brush piles and structure setting up in a summer pattern. Downsize to small hair jigs in 10-15 feet of water. Channel catfish are good near brush along the bank with stink bait. Report by River Bottom Boys Guide Service.

Houston

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.33 feet above pool. 1190 CFS coming down the west fork at 59 in humble and 813 CFS running down the East fork at FM1485. Water is muddy. The south end of the lake looks good and is holding fish around boat docks and deep structure. Largemouth bass are good using worms and grubs Texas rigged and recently being caught with deep diving crank baits. White bass are being caught on the humps by the dam on little Georges and duck tracker slabs vertical jigging. Catfish are very good by drains next to bulkheads eating fresh caught shad on the bottom. Crappie are fantastic, but you have to get them early as the bite does not last long in the morning. Crappie are tight to structure in 6-10 feet of water eating small hand tied jigs. Be safe and always wear your kill switch. Report by Captain Zackary Scott, Zack Attack Fishing.

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