Panhandle Plains Region Week of June 26, 2024

Alan Henry

GOOD. Water clear; 81 degrees; 0.08 feet above pool. Crappie are good in 15-25 feet of water over brush with minnows. Report by The Bait Shop, Post, Texas.

Arrowhead

GOOD. Water lightly stained; 85 degrees; 3.92 feet below pool. Blue catfish in the summer pattern. Catfish can be caught drifting with fresh cut shad in deep water flats. Reports of crappie catches at the oil derrick. Report by Brandon Brown, Brown’s Guide Service.

Cisco

GOOD. Water normal stain; 79 degrees; 12.24 feet below pool. Water temperatures are warm and the lake clarity is normal. Perch, crappie and bass are all biting good. The occasional channel catfish can be caught on minnows and worms. Report by Lake Cisco Rentals.

Coleman

SLOW. Water stained; 80 degrees; 2.68 feet below pool. Expect the bite to slow, and fish to explore new submerged vegetation. Largemouth bass are biting topwaters in the morning.

Ft. Phantom Hill

GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 6.31 feet below pool. Hybrids and white bass can be caught trolling with crankbaits or live shad. Largemouth bass are good on topwaters along the rocks.

Greenbelt

FAIR. Water normal stain; 80 degrees; 47.22 feet below pool. Crappie are in standing timber. Sand bass are good. Catfish are good on minnows and worms. Largemouth bass are good.

Hubbard Creek

GOOD. Water Stained; 80 degrees; 12.15 feet below pool. Blue catfish can be caught on juglines and trotlines. White bass are schooling throughout the day. There is not any hydrilla in the lake for fish to relate to.

Meredith

FAIR. Water stained; 75 degrees; 46.39 feet below pool. Fishing patterns are holding steady. White bass are the easiest to target hitting pretty much anything you throw at them. Smallmouth bass are liking minnows on rocky points. Bass are good on minnows and artificials. Catfish are fair with crawlers, minnows, chicken liver and frozen shad. Crappie are fair with artificial baits and minnows. Trout are slow, slow and slow on powerbaits, minnows, worms, small spinners, spoons and flies. Walleye are excellent on minnows, grubs, and other artificial baits. Lots of 14-15 inch fish being caught on trolling flicker shad. The bite on all species seems to be improving, with the exception of trout in the stilling basin. Please be safe out there, watch weather reports. Life vests save lives. Report by Kenneth Wysong, SharKens Honey Hole.

Millers Creek

GOOD. Water stained; 88 degrees; 0.32 feet below pool. Few reports due to recent scheduled closure for maintenance.

Nasworthy

FAIR. Water slightly stained; 86 degrees. 0.59 feet below pool. The forecast is looking good for fishing this weekend. The best bite will be early morning and later in the evening. The bass bite has been good on white chatterbait or spinnerbaits early morning and evening. Midday flipping soft plastics around reed bases in 1-3 feet of water is the ticket to catch shaded up largemouth bass. Also look out for the shad spawn as predatory fish are keying in on this pattern. Crappie were good around 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.

O.C. Fisher

SLOW. Water stained; 80 degrees; 52.23 feet below pool. Few reports and anglers fishing due to low lake levels.

O.H. Ivie

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 83 degrees; 29.73 feet below pool.  Black bass are fair with catches up to 10 pounds. Some summer schooling has begun. Best bite is in the afternoon on 5-7 inch swimbaits in 8-22 feet of water. Whopper Ploppers are fair early before sun up. Crappie fishing is improving in the river around hardwoods in 12-18 feet. Small white jigs with red heads. White bass are fair trolling channels in the main lake on crankbaits. Catfish are good on chicken liver and stinkbait in shallow water .  Report by Wendell Ramsey, Ramsey Fishing.

Oak Creek

SLOW. Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 16.65 feet below pool. Fishing patterns are holding steady. Bass up to 5 pounds are being caught using deep crankbaits, soft plastic worms on ¾ ounce heads. Crappie reports are starting to improve with fish schooling on brush piles and trees using small jigs. Anglers utilizing forewarn facing sonar are reporting success. Catfish are being caught on jug lines and trot lines with live bait. The overall bite has been slow. Report by Bronte Guns and Tackle Pro Staff.

Possum Kingdom

GOOD. Water stained; 86 degrees; 0.08 above pool. Striper is fair to good in 30-70 feet of water. Live bait is still the most consistent way to put fish in the boat, but some can be caught using white, silver or chartreuse spoons. Sand bass are slow in 20-30 feet of water with live shad or small slabs and jigs in white, or silver. Catfish are fair on cut shad in 5-20 feet of water. Water clarity is steady at 2-10 feet of visibility. Report by TJ Ranft, Ranft Guide Service. Bass are tough in 20-35 feet of water on Texas rigged worms, deep diving crankbaits, Carolina rigs, dropshots, and shaky heads. Report by JK Outdoors Bass Fishing Guide.

Proctor

GOOD. Water stained; 85 degrees; 1.74 feet below pool. Low flow gates are open so there is a current flowing through the gate. Lots of newly submerged vegetation for fish to be scattered in. Hybrid striped bass were restocked. Hybrids can be caught along promontory point trolling.

Spence

SLOW. Water stained; 80 degrees. 48.71 feet below pool. Fishing patterns are holding steady. Bass are being caught in brush along shorelines in 4-12 feet with soft plastics. Some topwater action has been reported using walking baits and frogs. The catfish bite has been fair. Reports of blue catfish and yellows are being reported on cut bait such as carp and shad. Stink bait has also been working. The yellow catfish are being caught on live bait as well. White bass bite has been reported as fair on spoons. Report by Bronte Guns and Tackle Pro Staff.

Stamford

SLOW. Water stained; 85 degrees; 0.56 feet above pool. Bass are tough as fish seek clear water hitting buzz baits, spinnerbaits or flipping creatures or stick baits. Catfish and crappie are slow. White bass are good, blowing up and schooling hitting small squarebill crankbaits. Not seeing any trolling action yet. The lake continues to be high with water draining at the spillway.

Twin Buttes

GOOD. Water stained. 84 degrees; 35.50 feet below pool. Summer patterns are in play so fishing is consistent. Very light light winds in the forecast so the water temperature should be on the rise. Best bite continues to be early morning for a few hours. White bass busting on shad at daylight hitting topwaters, or slabs. Under the lights at night with minnows or shad. Catfish are fair early in the morning with cheese bait. Mostly catches of smaller sized fish due to the warmer water. Water level is very low, so launching may be difficult. Report by Captain Michael Peterson, 4 Reel Fun Guide Service.

White River

FAIR. Water normal stain; 82 degrees; 20.92 feet below pool. Catfish are good. Crappie are good on minnows. Largemouth bass are biting in deeper water on soft plastics.

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