Arlington
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 90 degrees; 2.25 feet below pool. Arlington is a power plant lake so the lake is 5-10 degrees warmer than area lakes. Bass are in 10-25 feet of water on brush piles, rocks piles and main made objects. Crappie are in 10-25 feet of water on brush piles. Target brush piles without bass for crappie. Catfish are excellent in 3-15 feet of water. White bass are good in deep water near the dam in the evenings. Report by Cade Rudiger, local angler.
Athens
GOOD. Water normal stain; 84 degrees; 0.32 feet above pool. Bass are good and can be caught in grass 8-12 feet with Texas rigged worms, wacky rig senko and crankbaits. Bass are also good on brush in 15-18 feet with spoons and Texas rig worms. Crappie are slow on small jigs over brush.
Bastrop
GOOD. Water normal stain; 93 degrees. Look for bass shallow near reeds early and throw frogs, wake baits and other small topwaters to get bit. If you find any grass or lay downs, flip a craw or creature bait around those. Later, move to deeper water and look for any schooling bass and throw clear topwaters or small swimbaits and let it sink down to the school to get a bite. If fish are not schooling, drag a Carolina rigged fluke or finesse worm or jig across humps and ledges. Watermelon colors work best. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.
Belton
GOOD. Water normal stain; 81-83 degrees; 0.76 feet above pool. We had our first morning in the low 60s since May early this week, helping continue cooling the water down. This cooldown will be the beginning of a slow, downward trend in water temperature which will usher in the spectacular fall fishing, but we are not there yet. There have been some subtle changes in white bass behavior and location as a result of going "past peak" on the summer's highest water temperatures, including fish now using bottom in water greater than 40 feet for the first time in a long time, and a willingness for the fish to hold under the boat longer than has been the case for the entirety of August. Early morning topwater action is still the best action of the day using Sandy Sandwich streamers on Cork Rigs, but there has been some late morning and some afternoon action, as well. Downrigging with multi-lure rigs tied up with #12 Pet Spoons while watching sonar closely to keep the baits just above the fish is the most helpful in locating concentrations of fish. Once concentrations of fish are found, working the MAL Heavy with silver blade and chartreuse tail vertically with a "smoking" tactic will help capitalize on what you've found. An evening round of fishing from 6:30-8:15 p.m. has been reliable using these same downrigger/smoking tactics. Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.
Benbrook
Water stained; 84 degrees; 2.20 feet below pool. Crappie are good on live minnows close to structure. Hybrid striped bass are fair on live bait. Catfish are good on cut bait and stink bait. Report by Hundley's Guide Service.
Bois d'Arc
EXCELLENT. Water normal stain; 85-88 degrees; 1.13 feet below pool. Morning bass bite is best with topwater frogs on pond weeds and poppers at the edge as well as flukes and Yum Dingers. Square bills are good around old ponds and points 4-6 feet. Texas rigs rule in the timber around big trees and bushes 3-8 feet most of the day, but sometimes 8-15 feet. Carolina rigs and deep crankbaits off shore good around deep brush piles and rock piles in 15-23 feet. Report by Marc Mitchell, Mitchell's Guide Service.
Bridgeport
FAIR. Water clear; 81 degrees; 2.44 feet below pool. Crappie bite is good on the bridge, shallower docks and brush piles. Minnow bite is best but the jig bite is getting better with the decreasing water temperatures. Largemouth bite is decent with early morning topwaters then switching over to jigs, medium crankbaits and Texas rigged baits near docks and main lake points. White bass and hybrids are good on main lake humps with slabs or trolling. Catfish bite is good on cut and live bait on main lake humps. Report by Jack Pellegrini, Lake Bridgeport Crappie Guide Service.
Cedar Creek
EXCELLENT. Water slightly stained; 77-80 degrees; 1.26 feet below pool. Water level is 1 foot 3 inches low. Consistently finding the best action in 13-18 feet of water. Good go-to setups include a variety of slabs, spinners and the always-reliable yellow bladed Bo Blade spinner using the proven saw tooth retrieve technique. Trolling Pet Spoons with a hellbender set-up at 3 mph in 13-17 feet of water is absolutely crushing the white bass on several humps throughout the lake. Report by Brent Herbeck, Herbeck's Lonestar Fishing Guide Service. Catfish are good anchoring on humps in 12-24 feet using small shad or cut shad on the bottom. Drifting larger cut bait like carp, drum or big gizzard shad on flats in 10-25 feet all around the lake. Report by Jason Barber, Kings Creek Adventures.
Comanche Creek
Comanche Creek is closed for the summer and will reopen in October.
Cooper
GOOD. Water stained; 78 degrees; 1.62 feet below pool. As the summer temperatures increase, target crappie are in deeper timber along the river channel and brush piles. Start on the edge of the timber line working towards the dam then to the timber in coves. Summer bite is typically best on live bait. Report by River Bottom Boys Guide Service.
Cypress Springs
FAIR. Water normal stain; 89 degrees; 0.32 feet below pool. Water level is dropping. Bass have been feeding on points and doing a lot of surface feeding. A few bigger bass have been caught on structure in 15-20 feet of water. Crappie have been slow to bite but minnows and jigs are both doing fair. Catching some fish on timber and brush piles in all depths. White bass are surface feeding for long periods and throughout the day. Catfish are good in baited areas. Channels are doing best on stink bait if you can keep it on the hook. Report by Chris Caswell, Lake Bob Sandlin Crappie Fishing Guide.
Eagle Mountain
FAIR. Water normal stain; 85 degrees; 1.35 feet below pool. Sand bass are fair on slabs. Crappie are fair on deep water brush piles. Black bass are fair early and late evening on topwater baits. Perch are good on nightcrawlers around docks and boat houses. Catfish are good on manufactured and cut bait in 28 feet of water on humps. Report by Captain Bobby Mann, Catch a Dream Guide Service.
Fayette
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 90 degrees; full pool. Grass is looking good, so cast a frog to see if you can get a bass to bite. Bass are good in 20 feet of water biting deep diving crankbaits, shaky heads and Carolina rigs. The bite slows midday. Perch can be caught from the bank to 10 feet of water on nightcrawlers. Report by Mark Fransen, Fransen's Guide Service.
Graham
GOOD. Water stained; upper 80s degrees; 2.15 feet below pool. Crappie are good in brush piles in 12-14 feet of water on minnows and jigs. Sand bass and hybrids are schooling around the hot water outlet good on slabs and jigs. Largemouth bass are slow biting in shallow water vegetation on moving baits. Catfish are good on cut shad on main lake flats.
Granbury
GOOD. Water temperatures have fallen into the lower 80s and continue to cool some. The heat will likely return as it is early September. Granbury is at full pool and water clarity is normal. The fall feeding frenzy is upon us. Striped bass on the lower ends are fair to good on live shad and topwater action is good when located. White bass are good to excellent midlake on slabs, spinners and trolled Pet Spoons. Sand bass schools are busting the surface chasing bait. Largemouth bass are good to 7 pounds on spinners, crankbaits and soft plastics worked near creek entrances and on humps and ridges midlake. Crappie are excellent on small jigs and small minnows fished from in-town to Ports O‘Call. Catfish action is good on many areas of the lake, with the best reports coming from in-town and upstream to near Hunter Park. Report by Michael Acosta, Unfair Advantage Charters.
Grapevine
FAIR. Water clear to slightly stained; 80s degrees; 0.29 feet below pool. White bass are being caught out in the mid humps anywhere from 20-27 feet down on the sides of the humps, not so much at the top, but on the sides. Jigging spoons are working. They seem to be just up and down lately, but right now they're going good. Water clarity is good and all boat ramps are in good shape. Report by Omar Cotter, Luck O'the Irish Fishing Guide Service.
Hawkins
FAIR. Water slightly stained; 88 degrees. Topwater early and late will produce good black bass and bream action. Small white poppers worked shallow around the shoreline are a good bet. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service.
Jacksonville
SLOW. Water clear; 85 degrees; 0.11 feet above pool. Fishing is off and on, catching them on soft plastics in brush and on underwater structures. Schoolers on topwater and swim baits, topwater bite is good in the early mornings. Report by Greg Lotun.
Lavon
GOOD. Water normal stain; 86 degrees; 1.81 feet below pool. Crappie are good in 12-15 feet on brush and timber using 1/16-ounce jigs in any color. Minnows working well too but you will catch a ton of babies so jigs are preferred to save money. There are not many fish below 18 feet. Black bass are good with white and chartreuse spinnerbaits in the mornings along with jerkbaits and soft plastics like the original Slugo worked Texas rigged without weight. If water is super clear, use that technique. If not clear, throw a 3-6 foot crawfish colored square bill around boat ramps and riprap for limits before 8 a.m. After 8 a.m., switch to a 12-foot KVD Series 5 in sexy shad. Soft plastics in watermelon red work well Texas rigged, or creature baits Carolina rigged. Brush piles produce using swimbaits glided over the top. White bass have been at 15 feet consistently. White slabs 1 ounce with treble hooks cut off except one work best at Little Ridge Point, Hybrid Point and the island tip. Anglers are limiting out by 7:45 a.m. at the latest. Tying a jig 12 inches above your slab on a loop knot catches two fish at a time. For some reason, they are still spooked by the thumper but the splash is still working bringing them to the boat. Catfish are good at 15 feet on the flats, especially near drop-offs. Throw maize around the boat and they will show up looking like sand bass schooling on your screen. You could catch your limit within an hour or two with punch bait after you bait around your boat. Report by Carey Thorn, White Bass Fishing Texas.
Lewisville
FAIR. Water normal stain; 81-83 degrees; 1.20 feet below pool. White bass are fair on points and humps in 15-32 feet of water. Slabs, spoons, spinners and live bait are working. Keeper sized hybrid stripers are slow in similar depths as the white bass. These fish have been moving fast. 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 fair to good on cut shad drifting humps, points and flats in 15-32 feet of water. Also the runoff areas after the recent rain should hold fish. Channel catfish are fair to good on baited holes on humps and points in 15-30 feet of water on cut shad or punch bait. Crappie are slow to fair in 10-28 feet of water. Check brush piles, submerged timber, laydowns, rock piles and submerged cover close to a drop-off ledge. Minnows and jigs are catching those fish. Report by Wes Campbell, BendARod Fishing.
Limestone
GOOD. Water clear; 89 degrees; 0.70 feet below pool. Consistent summer fishing patterns. The lake dropping 5 inches a day on evaporation. Noodling under boat ramps for catfish will slow down as catfish move to deeper water. The thermocline is from 14-16 feet. Summer patterns will hold on until sometime in September. Crappie are good in 8-14 feet of water on minnows. Offshore fresh willow tree piles are best, but standing timber and concrete pylons are also holding fish. Largemouth bass are good on docks, bulkheads, and brush piles in 4-14 feet of water with Texas rigs, Carolina rigs, chatterbaits, and spinnerbaits. White bass are good on silver War Eagle Super Slabs in 7-17 feet of water on humps, points, and flats. Catfish are good noodling or on cut bait all the way to 20 feet deep on points, humps, and flats. Lake Limestone Marina will be the best spot for bank fishing as the summer goes on. Summer patterns continue. Report by Colan Gonzales, Lake Limestone Guide Service.
Navarro Mills
GOOD. 89 degrees; 0.12 feet below pool. White bass are found off the points in the mornings and evenings. They are moving points and not on one in particular every time. In the evenings they are moving closer to shore and can be caught from the bank. Silver and white spoons are working best, but they are not picky. Crappie are hit-or-miss. Some days they are packed in the brush, and the next they are in 3 feet of water. A few crappie are still coming off the docks daily. Minnows are the preferred bait. If using jigs, blue and white colors work best. Catfishing has slowed, but can be caught with whole or cut perch and goldfish. Expecting conditions to change Thursday/Friday as the cold front comes through. Report by Navarro Mills Marina.
Palestine
FAIR. Water stained; high 80s degrees; 0.00 feet below pool. Blue catfish are biting on drum pretty much all day long in 10-12 feet of water drift fishing and jug lines. Black bass are really slow. Hybrids and sand bass are biting early morning and late evening in deep water on spinnerbaits and shallow water baits. Crappie are biting real good around docks, brush piles and tree limbs in deep water. Report by David Holt, Lake Palo Pinto RV Park.
Ray Hubbard
GOOD. Water stained; 83-85 degrees; 0.71 feet below pool.White bass have been good in the mornings with surface activity on the common flats. Throw small swimbaits, tail spinners or rattle traps. Later in the morning white bass are shallow in 12-16 feet on long points, coves and ledges. Best technique is to troll in 14-15 feet of water. Crappie are slow and relating to brush piles in 12-15 feet of water. Crappie are at bridge columns. Beat the heat and night fish with submerged green lights and minnows. Catfish are slow in wooded timber in 12-15 feet on prepared punch bait. Chumming will help bring the schools into your areas. Report by John Varner, John Varner's Guide Service.
Ray Roberts
FAIR. Water slightly stained; 82 degrees; 0.96 feet below pool. Things are starting to make a transition and it's getting a little tougher with water temps getting up to the 90s. Crappie are starting to move out deeper to deep brush in 35-40 feet and in trees in 25-40 feet of water. Now they're also moving out a bit and you can catch them better on timber in 12-18 feet of water, brush piles the same. Early mornings on windblown points for sand bass. Channel catfish are about the same - you can still fish baited holes. Sand bass are in 35-45 feet of water. Largemouth bass are on offshore rocks or shallow brush. Nothing fishing good except channel catfish. Report by Daniel Koberna, Lt. Dan's Crappie Co.
Richland Chambers
Water slightly stained; 84-87 degrees; 0.46 feet below pool. Black bass are being caught off main lake docks. Use chatterbaits or an All Terrain Swim Jig. The deeper brush piles are another option - use a deep diving crankbait and a 10-inch worm. The catfish are excellent on baited holes. The hybrids are still tough but will be back on as the water temperature cools off. The white bass are schooling early in certain spots. They are not consistent, but they are getting better. Using spinners and slabs on the white bass. Trolling a Pet Spoon and Hellbender Rig also in 17-20 feet. Report by Terry Hawkins Guide Service.
Somerville
GOOD. Water stained; 84 degrees; 0.44 feet below pool. No water is being discharged at the dam. At the marina, crappie bite is fair, bluegill are fair on crickets and worms, and catfish are good on minnows and punch bait. On the lake, crappie are fair on jigs and minnows over brush in 8-15 feet of water with late afternoon bite good. Catfish are fair in 10-15 feet of water around structure and using jug lines with cut shad or punch bait. Black bass are fair on crankbaits and soft plastic baits in 6-14 feet of water. White bass are good trolling with various spoons or anchored with shad and ghost minnows. Hybrids are fair in deeper water using jigs and cut bait. Below the dam, all species are slow with zero water being discharged. Report by Weldon Kirk, Fish Tales Guide Service.
Stillhouse
FAIR. Water stained; 81-83 degrees; 0.27 feet above pool. 200 CFS flow through the dam into the Lampasas River below it. We had our first morning in the low 60s since May early this week, helping continue cooling the water down. This cooldown will be the beginning of a slow, downward trend in water temperature which will usher in the spectacular fall fishing, but we are not there yet. There have been some subtle changes in white bass behavior and location as a result of going "past peak" with the highest water temperatures of the summer. Fish are now using bottom in water greater than 40 feet for the first time in a long time, and a willingness for the fish to hold under the boat longer than has been the case for the entirety of August. Downrigging with multi-lure rigs tied up with #12 Pet Spoons while watching sonar closely to keep the baits just above the fish is the most helpful in locating concentrations of fish. Once concentrations of fish are found, working the MAL Heavy with silver blade and chartreuse tail vertically with a "smoking" tactic will help capitalize on what you have found. An evening round of fishing from 6:30-8:15 p.m. has been reliable using these same downrigger/smoking tactics. Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.
Tawakoni
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 0.51 feet below pool. Lake Tawakoni continues to fish decently as we head into August. Fish are moving often–staying on them has been a challenge. The hybrid striper, striper and white bass bite has been good. Fish are stacking up on shallow points in 10-20 feet. Surface feeding is also happening sporadically in early mornings and late evenings when we have some wind. Slab spoons, downriggers and swimbaits are working equally good. The eating sized 1-3 pound catfish bite is red hot. Limits are being caught daily in just a few hours. Prepared baits such as punch and dip baits are working best. The crappie bite has picked up. Minnows are working best in 12-20 feet near bridge pilings. The largemouth bite is good on frogs at daylight and working over to shallow cranks around dock legs and submerged irrigation intakes. Shaky heads have been good too. Report by Captain Michael Littlejohn, Lake Tawakoni Guide Service.
Texoma
GOOD. Water stained; 83-84 degrees; 0.07 feet above pool. Watch for topwater striper activity early and late. Fish are still moving fast in deep water and down ledges. Lures and live bait as the water starts to cool off. Big fish are off main lake points at daylight on big pencil poppers. Catfishing is good on punch bait and cut shad. Baited holes are producing numbers of channels in 20-25 feet of water on points and flats near ditches. Blue catfish are schooled up in deeper water off river ledges. Big blues will start showing up on deep flats, drifting cut shad and whole gizzard shad in 50-60 feet of water. Report by Jacob Orr, Lake Texoma, Guaranteed Guide Service.
Weatherford
FAIR. Water stained; 88 degrees; 4.48 feet below pool. Water visibility is about 10 inches. Bass are slow around docks with crankbaits and jigs. Crappie are fair in deeper water with minnows and shad. Catfish are fair with cut bait and shad.
Whitney
GOOD. Water clear; 85 degrees; 0.29 feet below pool. Catfish are fair using cut bait or punch bait in 25-35 feet of water. The striped bass bite is slow on live bait in 30-40 feet. Crappie are up in the main lake in brush in 15-20 feet of water. White bass fishing is slow on slabs on main lake humps in 25-30 feet of water. Largemouth bass fishing is fair using soft plastics on deep structure. Report by Captain Cory Vinson, Guaranteed Guide Service.
Worth
FAIR. Water stained; 86 degrees; 0.82 feet below pool. Reports of catches of carp with bait balls. Catfish can be caught on punch bait.
