Hill Country Region Week of February 25, 2026

Austin

FAIR. Water normal stain; 57 degrees; 0.54 feet below pool. An early week small cold front pushed the bass to deep drop-offs near spawning areas. Seeing some fish staged up ready to spawn. Dropshots and Neko rigs fished slowly around these areas have been getting bites. If the weather is overcast and windy, fish will eat a rattletrap, bladed jig and spinnerbait ripped over the grass. Report by Carson Conklin, ATX Fishing. Lake Austin has been producing good bass in the hydrilla. Looking for holes in the grass in 3-10 feet of water, throwing chatterbaits, swim jigs, and swimbaits have been good. Water temps are in the low 60's with great water clarity throughout most of the lake. Report by Tyler Torwick, Torwick’s Guiding Service. The bass spawn is well underway, with many bass positioned shallow and actively on beds. A consistent pattern has been fishing inside grass lines with drop-shot rigged finesse worms in less than 6 feet of water where bass are staging and guarding spawning areas. Large schools of bass are also roaming open water chasing shad and can be targeted with forward-facing sonar and weightless soft plastic jerkbaits. Sight-fishing remains productive, though rotating presentations are often needed to trigger bites. Fishing pressure is high, and boat traffic can occasionally stain otherwise clear areas. Report by Ander Meine, Bassquatch Fishing.

Brady

FAIR. Water stained; 50 degrees; 0.59 feet below pool. Crappie should be transitioning towards coves. Bass should be in a pre-spawn with fish shallow on beds or staging on points to move shallow. Bladed jigs and rattletraps are good for shallow fish.

Brownwood

SLOW. Water stained; 58 degrees; 3.22 feet below pool. Black bass to 8.23 pounds are excellent on soft plastic finesse lure in Lone Star Disco color scoping around docks and jigs in 10-12 feet, or jerkbaits in 3-8 feet on the rocks around main lake pockets and points. Crappie are fair to 10 inches on minnows in the main lake scattered brush piles and on docks 15-18 feet. White bass are slow to 1.25 pounds with fish scattered around the main lake. Catfish are good to 10 pounds on jug lines with cut carp from Little Jim Ned to the Christian retreat.

Bryan

SLOW. Water stained; 60 degrees. Continue to target bass on the bottom around deep cover with a jig or a Texas rigged craw or creature bait. When the water is a little clearer throw a suspending jerkbait with a long pause. If the bass are finicky, downsize to a shaky head or a Ned rig and just let it soak. When there is a reaction bite cast a lipless crankbait, spinnerbait or chatterbait. Report by The Aggie Anglers.

Buchanan

GOOD. Water normal stain; 63 degrees; 2.38 feet below pool. Surface water temperatures are ranging from 57-65. Water is murky in most areas from recent high winds. Stripers are biting on live bait from 12-45 feet of water, however they have been finicky after these small fronts. Right place, right time and a little luck after the fronts has been the key, but stable winds patterns should get the bite more predictable. White bass are thick from high line to Bend with big catches trolling crankbaits. Fish are also piled in the main body 20-42 feet of water biting jigging spoons. Report by Travis Holland, TH Fishing. Crappie are fair in 10-15 feet of water on brush with chartreuse jigs or minnows. Blue and channel catfish are fair in 15-25 feet of water with cut shad. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service. Patterns will remain consistent until the water temperature rises into the 60s. Stripers continue to be good trolling umbrella rigs and downriggers with bucktails in 15-35 feet of water on main lake points and humps, and major creek channels. Live shad and jigging spoons are fair to good along the river channel and main lake points and humps. White bass are good from Garrett Island to the river trolling crankbaits. Stop on the main points and humps with jigging spoons and smaller shad or jumbo minnows in 28-45 feet of water. Reports of white bass being caught up river. Report by Captain Aaron Dick, One Up Fishing Guide Service.

Canyon Lake

GOOD. Water normal stain; 64 degrees; 21.37 feet below pool. The striper and white bass action has really been kicking off. Large schools are midlake between Party Cove and Potters Creek Park. Umbrella rigs casted and slow rolled have been the ticket to producing limits of striper and some white bass. This action typically lasts the first hour of the day, and longer on a nice overcast day. Look for seagulls hovering on the surface, this is a good sign indicating fish are right below. Largemouth bass have definitely started to spawn. Bladed jigs, underspins, as well as weightless worms have been producing good numbers of fish along the edge of flooded brush mixed with hydrilla. Focus on the back of the cove and work your way out. Keep note of how far back you catch your fish as you can replicate this in most coves around the lake. You can also focus on the last bit of deeper water and last bit of structure you find before the shallows as this is a great pre-spawn staging location. Secondary points, brush piles, rock ledges are areas fish hold to before moving up to spawn, then return post pawn. Report by Tyler Stanley, Game on Guide Service.

Georgetown

SLOW. water stained; 62 degrees; 7.84 feet above pool. Largemouth bass continue to transition shallow towards pre-spawn areas. Bass continue to be slow after the recent cold front, but action should improve as warming trends hold. The best bites are coming from slower presentations in the shallows. Creature baits worked methodically around cover are getting consistent looks. Bass are also feeding on shad near main lake points, especially during the middle of the day. Rattle traps and squarebill crankbaits have produced a few quality fish when fished around wind-blown structure

Granger

FAIR. Water stained; 60 degrees; 0.30 feet above pool. Black bass are good to 7 pounds on jigs and worms fished up river around cover. Crappie are fair on minnows fished up river at night and on jigs fished in shallow water in the backs of sloughs and ditches. White bass are good up river around Dickerson's Bottom. Blue catfish are good on jug lines baited with shad. Yellow catfish are slow. Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell's Granger Lake Guide Service.

Inks

GOOD. Water stained; 60 degrees; 1.04 feet below pool. Bass are in a mix of late pre-spawn and early spawning phases, though reduced water clarity has made sight-fishing more challenging. Crankbaits, finesse jigs, umbrella rigs, Neko-rigged finesse worms, and compact soft plastic stick baits will all produce catches. Fishing docks and rocky structure has been the most consistent pattern, with some fish still relating to remaining submerged vegetation. Most bites are coming from less than 15 feet of water as bass continue transitioning shallow. Report by Ander Meine, Bassquatch Fishing. Bass are good in 8-15 feet of water with deep diving jerkbaits around submerged trees or rockpiles was very productive. The white, hybrid, and striped bass are also very active around the river channel edge on the main lake. Report by Tyler Torwick, Torwick’s Guiding Service.

LBJ

FAIR. Water stained; 60 degrees; 0.24 feet below pool. Crappie are good in 15 feet of water on brush with jigs. Male crappie are on spawning nests. Channel and blue catfish are fair in 20 feet of water on cut shad. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service. Bass are in all stages of the spawns. Spawning bass can be caught with weightless plastics up shallow. Prespawn and post spawn can be caught over shallow rock piles and rocky banks with Texas rig. Report by Evan Coleman, Big Bassin Fishing Tours.

Marble Falls

GOOD. normal stain; 60 degrees; 0.59 feet below pool. Crappie are good in 15 feet of water on brush with jigs. Male crappie are on spawning nests. Channel and blue catfish are fair in 20 feet of water on cut shad. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service.

Medina

SLOW. Water lightly stained; 70 degrees; 86.13 feet below pool. The lake is very low at only 5.8-percent full. Medina Lake is closed due to low water levels.

Travis

FAIR. Water normal stain; 62 degrees; 14.81 feet below pool. Bass are good with a 4 inch swimbait rigged on a keel weighted hook fished around shallow submerged brush. Water clarity is stained with visibility as good as 3 feet in some parts of the lake on the lower end of the lake. Report by Tyler Torwick, Torwick’s Guiding Service

Waco

EXCELLENT. Water stained; 61 degrees; 0.47 feet above pool. Crappie are excellent while fish are in prespawn patterns staging on brush and structure in 15-18 feet of water along the edges of creek channels. Female crappies are full of eggs. Forecasted warm days and nights should bring the females to spawning nests within the next few weeks. Live bait is best, but the smallest grape with chartreuse artificial possible will work. Report by Greg Culverhouse, Crappie King.

Walter E. Long

GOOD. Water normal stain; 58 degrees. Water levels are slowly rising. The ramp is scheduled to be closed until 2027 to power boats. Kayaks and canoes can still launch from the shore, and bank fishing is possible. Much of the submerged vegetation has died back leaving a lot of didymo, or rock snot. Because of this, suspended baits and open water fishing tend to be less frustrating. With cooler water look for reaction bites with jerkbaits, swimbaits, chatterbaits, and lipless crankbaits. Weedless soft plastics, stick baits, dropshot rigs, and jigs are also good options at grass edges and across submerged vegetation. Report by Team YAKUSA.

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