Prairies & Lakes Region Week of June 11, 2025

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Comanche Creek

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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