Hill Country Region Week of October 2, 2024

Austin

SLOW. Water stained; 72 degrees; 0.50 feet below pool. Bass are good with creature baits or craws near dock pylons. There is very little topwater action. Report by Randal Frisbie, Central Texas Fishing Guide, LLC.

Brady

SLOW. Water stained; 85 degrees; 12.57 feet below pool. Black bass are slow with a few being caught late afternoon before dark around deeper rocky shorelines using senkos and slow rolling spinnerbaits. Catfish are slow with a few caught late afternoon into the night on cut bait. Crappie and white bass are slow.

Brownwood

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.83 feet above pool. Black bass up to 3.67 pounds are poor on frogs in the new water along grass and weeds. Some can be caught on cranks off the rocks in 2-8 feet of water around the rock cuts. Crappie are poor to 10 inches around docks with brush on minnows in 9-15 feet and on offshore brush piles. White bass are good to 2.00 pounds on crankbaits around the lighted docks. Catfish are fair to 4 pounds on shad and liver.

Bryan

GOOD. Water stained; 87 degrees. The bass bite picked up after the recent cold front. Bass are good on brush piles and shallow with topwater lures. Report by the Aggie Anglers.

Buchanan

FAIR. Water slight stain; 83 degrees; 12.61 feet below pool. Topwater striper schools are sporadic lake wide. White bass are surfacing in large schools mid lake hitting slab spoons and topwaters. Trolling in 6-21 feet of water with white and chartreuse half ounce jigs and trailers has still been the most consistent pattern producing some keeper fish with numerous throwbacks. Vertically jigging, slabbing, with ½-1 ounce spoons has been working when you can find a school that will stay under the boat. Report by Travis Holland, TH Fishing. Cold front should increase the topwater action and possibly turn on the live bait bite. The topwater bite is improving for white bass and scattered stripers at the mouths of creeks working towards the back. Striped bass continue to be good trolling bucktail jigs on downriggers in 16-30 feet of water. Fish are feeding on shallow sandbars in the morning and afternoons. Catfish are slow in 15 feet of water on live shad, but are still on deep rock piles and ledges in 15-20 feet of water biting punch bait or shad. White bass bite is good on jigging spoons in 20-30 feet of water. Report by Captain Aaron Dick, One Up Fishing Guide Service. Crappie are good on brush piles and standing timber in 25 feet of water with chartreuse jigs. Blue catfish are good on structure in 30 feet of water. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service. Bass are good throwing shaky heads and Texas-rigged 4-5 inch worms around rock piles to catch some good ones. Flipping trees in 5-15 feet with jigs, flukes and craw worms will get some too. A medium or deep crankbait will catch some of those bigger bass. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.

Canyon Lake

GOOD. Water normal stain; 78 degrees; 25.06 feet below pool. There is a good bass topwater bite In the morning with a spook or buzzbait. Then as the day warms focus on the outside grass lines with a neko rigged worm. Report by Evan Coleman, Big Bassin Fishing.

Georgetown

SLOW. Water stained: 85 degrees; 9.48 feet below pool. Expect the bite to improve as the water temperature cools. Sand bass are hit-or-miss in the evenings. Bass are slow in the evenings with catches up to 2 pounds. Carp and gar can be caught up stream. Black drum can be caught in the stilling basin.

Granger

GOOD. Water lightly stained; 85 degrees; 0.11 feet below pool. Black bass are good to 7 pounds on worms and crankbaits. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows fished over cover in 4-12 feet of water. White bass are fair with mostly small undersized fish being caught over ridges, humps, and roadbeds. Blue catfish are good on shad. Yellow catfish are good to 25 pounds on live bait. Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.

LBJ

FAIR. Water stained; 83 degrees; 0.22 feet below pool. Crappie are good in 20 feet of water over brush piles with minnows. Channel and blue catfish are good on punch bait in 25 feet of water over dropoffs and rock piles. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service. Bass are slow with some topwater action early in the morning. There is not a pattern, so be prepared to cover water and be ready for anything. The clarity is muddy with very little grass. Report by Randal Frisbie, Central Texas Fishing Guide, LLC.

Medina

SLOW. Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 90.37 feet below pool. Few reports and anglers on the water due to limited access and low water level.

Travis

FAIR. Water slightly stained; 89 degrees; 40.48 feet below pool. Lake Travis has been good in the morning as you can catch bass feeding shallow in the flooded brush. Throw flukes, swimbaits, 4 inch worms and creature baits with chartreuse dyed tails. When the sun gets up high, work deeper water along ledges and cliffs in 20-25 feet of water throwing jigs, shaky heads and Texas-rigged creature baits to get those better bites. A deep crankbait will get some bites as well. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.

Waco

SLOW. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.81 feet below pool. Summer fishing patterns are steady. Crappie are good in 10-20 feet of open water on brush piles with live minnows or jigs. Largemouth bass are slow and scattered. The best bite is early or late in the day with soft plastics. Sand bass are excellent on small slabs, small crankbaits, small swimbaits and small spoons in 15-35 feet on open water humps, points, ridges, roadbeds, and on the Old Dam. Blue catfish and channel catfish are good with cut bait or live shad on juglines or rod-and-reel in 10-30 feet of water. Hybrids up to 7 pounds are being caught with 5 inch swimbaits or spoons at the Old Dam. Best colors are white and chartreuse or chrome.

Walter E. Long

GOOD. Water normal stain; 80 degrees. It is still possible to launch but keep the motor trimmed up. Worms and flukes in the grass working best along the shore lines. Report by David Townsend, Austin Fishing Guide. Decker lakes water level is continuing to drop. The lake is fishing well right now. A lot of grass has been exposed with the low water levels. There is a really good punching bite and frog bite right now. Still seeing a lot of schooling activity but it is very scattered. Overall the lake is fishing great. Report by Carson Conklin, ATX Fishing Guide Service. Lake Decker is fishing great if you can get on it. They are not keeping it full very well. Bass are schooling after shad early in the pockets, so a swimbait, shad colored fluke, shallow crank or vibrating jig/spinnerbait works good for those. Later, work off the bank around grass with 4-5 inch worms in watermelon or green pumpkin colors. You can catch some up tight to the reeds flipping a craw or creature bait. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.

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