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BASTROP: Water clear. Black bass are fair on chartreuse and chartreuse/white Rat-L-Traps over grass. Crappie are good on minnows and blue tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are good on shrimp, nightcrawlers, and punchbait. Yellow catfish are slow.
CANYON LAKE: Water clear; 80 degrees; 7.84 feet low. Black bass are fair on Smokin’ Green” Devil’s Tongues on drop shot rigs, watermelon red Whacky Sticks on wacky rigs, and Texas rigged 6” pumpkin Scoundrel worms and white spinnerbaits along main lake bluffs in 12-20 feet and in standing timber in 4-8 feet. Striped bass are fair to good but small jigging blade baits and trolling Gizz 4 crankbaits over and around humps in the lower end of the lake. White bass are slow. Smallmouth bass to 4 pounds are fair on smoke JDC grubs and 3/16-oz. pumpkin Curb’s jigs with matching JDC drop shot worms in 12-28 feet early. Crappie are fair on minnows and crappie jigs upriver. Channel catfish are slow. Yellow and blue catfish are fair on trotlines baited with live bait.
COLORADO RIVER (At Colorado Bend State Park): Water clear. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on perch.
FAYETTE: Water clear; 88 degrees. Black bass are slow. Channel and blue catfish are good on cut shad, liver, and shrimp over baited holes under trees.
LBJ: Water stained; 83 degrees; 0.35 feet low. Black bass are fair on JDC Skip-N-Pops and 1/8oz. Curb’s buzzbaits tight to seawalls in 4-8 feet at daylight and just before dark, and on wacky rigged green pumpkin Whacky Sticks and 4-inch green pumpkin tubes under boat docks. Striped bass to 24 inches are good on Creme Lures 2-inch Spoiler Shads and Li’l Fishies at night. White bass are fair to good on Li’l Fishies at night. Crappie are fair to good on Curb’s crappie jigs and live minnows over brush piles in clear water. Channel catfish are good on minnows and dip bait. Yellow and blue catfish are fair to good on trotlines.
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AMISTAD: Water clear; 85 degrees; 10.95 feet low. Black bass are fair on buzzbaits, spooks, and Pop-R’s in 4-12 feet, and on watermelon and watermelon red Carolina rigged soft plastics in 16-22 feet. Striped bass are fair on redfins near the dam. White bass are slow. Catfish are good on cheesebait, punchbait, and nightcrawlers in 40-95 feet. Yellow catfish are good on trotlines baited with live perch. Everyone in the boat must have a Mexico fishing license (if fishing the Mexico side) whether fishing or not.
BRAUNIG: Water stained; 83 degrees. Black bass are slow on crankbaits and dark soft plastic worms. Striped bass are fair on liver and shad near the pier and at Dead Tree Point, and on marble spinnerbaits near the jetty and dam. Redfish are fair on perch, shad, and silver spoons, and down rigging spoons near the jetty and dam. Channel catfish are excellent on liver, shrimp, cut bait, and cheesebait near the dam and the discharge. Blue catfish are good on cut bait.
CALAVERAS: Water stained; 83 degrees. Black bass are fair on dark soft plastic worms, spinnerbaits, and crankbaits around reed beds, near the dam, and in Granny’s Cove. Striped bass are slow. Redfish are good down rigging spoons with green grubs between the crappie wall and the dam in 15-20 feet, and on perch and tilapia along the shoreline. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are excellent on liver, shrimp, cheesebait, and shad near the railroad trestle, 181 Cove, and the discharge. Yellow catfish are slow.
CHOKE CANYON: Water lightly stained; 86 degrees; 3.48 feet low. Black bass are good on large soft plastic worms and lizards in 12-20 feet. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Drum are good on live worms. Channel and blue catfish are excellent on punchbait in 3-10 feet. Yellow catfish are fair on live perch and goldfish.
COLETO CREEK: Water clear; 84 degrees (94 degrees at discharge); 3.36 feet low. Black bass are fair on soft plastics in 8-12 feet. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows in 12-14 feet. Channel and blue catfish are fair on trotlines baited with liver and live perch in 10-12 feet. Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines baited with live perch in 12-16 feet.
FALCON: Water stained; 81 degrees. Black bass are fair on white and chartreuse/white crankbaits and spinnerbaits. Striped bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are very good on cut bait and shad. Yellow catfish are slow. Everyone in the boat must have a Mexico fishing license (if fishing the Mexico side) whether fishing or not.