Hill Country Region Week of June 26, 2024

Austin

GOOD. Water stained; 87 degrees; 0.53 feet below pool. Bass are good early in the morning in shallow water on small swimbaits, plastic worms and topwaters. Seeing a lot of fish suspended around baitfish 15-25 feet of water. Small swimbaits on a long cast then reeled in slowly producing a few bites. Some schooling activity up on the surface. Small topwaters and flukes are catching them. Overall the lake is fishing pretty good. Report by Carson Conklin, ATX Fishing.

Brady

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 85 degrees; 11.02 feet below pool. Black bass, crappie and white bass are slow. Channel catfish are good using worms and cut bait. Yellow catfish are fair using live perch and fresh cut bait late at night.

Brownwood

GOOD. Water stained; 85 degrees; 1.94 feet below pool. Black bass to 6.42 pounds are good on Hag’s green pumpkin tungsten tsunami jigs, shaky heads and topwaters in 2-10 feet of water. Crappie to 14 inches are good around docks on minnows and jigs in 10-15 feet of water. White bass are fair on crankbaits and crappie jigs with some topwater action early and late. Fish are 10-12 inches. Catfish are slow with 5 pound fish being caught on grasshoppers or prepared bait and on jug lines on the main lake.

Bryan

GOOD. Water stained; 85 degrees. The lake is full and anglers are reporting good catches of catfish on minnows. Report by The Bait Barn. Bass are biting on brush piles when it is overcast using jigs and crankbaits. Report by the Aggie Anglers.

Buchanan

EXCELLENT. Water slightly stained; 87 degrees; 8.99 feet below pool.The water clarity remains clear for most of the lake, and the level is starting to fall a little each day. Striper fishing remains excellent using live shad as bait in the 15-45’ feet of water. There also has been good fish being caught trolling jigs and crankbaits. Some topwater action for striper schools, but they are not staying up for long. White bass can be caught vertical jigging spoons 20-38 feet of water. Report by Travis Holland, TH Fishing. Bass are good on rock piles with topwaters, swimbaits and crankbaits. A Texas-rigged worm, fluke and baby brush hogs are working great right now. Crappie are good with crappie jigs or roadrunners. White bass are good with small crankbaits. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.

Canyon Lake

GOOD. Water normal stain; 85 degrees; 23.71 feet below pool. Bass have a decent morning topwater bite on a spook or buzzbait. Then as the day progresses you can catch fish around deeper grass edges on a neko rig. Report by Evan Coleman, Big Bassin Fishing.

Georgetown

GOOD. Water normal stain: 81 degrees; 3.91 feet below pool. Hydrilla is continuing to grow upwards with the clear, warming water. Particularly dense, isolated stands of hydrilla typically hold largemouth bass, out to the 20 foot mark. Work small, dark soft plastics for these fish. White bass fishing has been fair in the first three hours following sunrise on MAL Heavy Lures with chartreuse tail worked vertically and horizontally in 26-34 feet of water. White bass typically move through beneath the boat in suspended schools especially with low growing hydrilla carpeting the bottom out to the 26 foot mark. Some light topwater schooling activity has begun to occur as white bass and small largemouth school up and feed on young of the year shad they are pushing to the surface. Small silver lures like the smallest Pet Spoon excel for this application. Downrigging is becoming more effective as the summer heat increases water temperature. Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.

Granger

GOOD. Water lightly stained; 85 degrees; 1.05 feet above pool. Black bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows and Insane plastic jigs fished in 8-16 feet of water. White bass are good on slab spoons fished over main lake humps. Blue catfish are good on jug lines baited with shad or Zote soap. Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines. Water is still being released and the lake is a foot above normal. Report by Tommy Tidwell, Tommy Tidwell’s Granger Lake Guide Service.

LBJ

FAIR. Water stained; 83 degrees; 0.18 feet below pool. Crappie are good in 16-22 feet of water on brush piles in jigs or minnows. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service.

Medina

SLOW. Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 93.45 feet below pool. Few reports and anglers on the water due to limited access and low water level.

Travis

FAIR. Water stain; 87 degrees; 46.31 feet below pool. Guadaliupe bass can be caught on bluff walls between marinas. Bass are very active chasing shad in the marinas. Cast spoons and small swim jigs in 30 feet of water. Bass are good in the shaded areas of the marinas biting small swimbaits, and slowly working small topwaters. Continue to downsize baits to match the small 1 inch baitfish the bass are feeding on. Report by Randal Frisbie, Central Texas Fishing Guide, LLC. Bass are schooling up early with a good bite on small belly weighted straight tail swimbaits in shad colors, walk the dog style topwater lures, jerkbaits and spoons. The topwater action is great starting out in those deeper marinas and coves. After the quick hitting topwaters, try dropping jigging and flutter spoons down to the deeper schools. After this action stops, work ledges and deeper points to get some good bites using deep cranks, jigs, shaky heads and Texas rigged worms and craws. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.

Waco

SLOW. Water stained; 80 degrees; 4.83 feet above pool. Twin Bridges boat ramp, and the Speegleville Park boat ramp are scheduled to reopen Saturday, June 29 at 6:00 a.m. Use the winter boat ramp entrance for Speegleville Park boat ramp. 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.

Walter E. Long

GOOD. Water normal stain; 84 degrees. Bass are good on topwater frogs and worms early in the day. Later in the day switch to swimbaits and spoons. Most bass are in 10-25 feet of water with some schooling almost every trip. Finding the schools is the key so you can catch a bunch in the same place. Bream fishing seems to be good. Report by David Townsend, Austin Fishing Guide.

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