Aquilla
GOOD. Water normal stain; 68 degrees; 1.51 feet below pool. Fishing patterns remain consistent, but expect the bite to slow during and after a cold front. Crappie are good on brush piles in 20-25 feet of water with minnows and jigs. Bass are good on spinnerbaits in 5-10 feet of water. Catfish are good in the timber on prepared baits. Sand bass are slow in 20-30 feet of water off main lake humps with jigging spoons. Report by Captain Cory Vinson, Guaranteed Guide Service.
Arlington
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 73 degrees; 1.87 feet below pool. Threadfin shad are moving to deeper water after the cold fronts. Many bass are still in shallow water, but focus on the areas near deep water for a more consistent bite. Crappie are schooled up in deep water on brush piles, with bigger crappie suspended in isolation across the basin. White bass are schooling in the evening on the edge of big flats where the deep water drops off. Report by Cade Rudiger, local angler.
Athens
GOOD. Water normal stain; 69 degrees; 0.07 feet above pool. Fishing patterns remain consistent. Bass are feeding on shad and bluegill gearing up for winter. There has been a better concentration of fish shallow all day now that it has cooled off. Still using a weightless 5 inch stick bait or 5 inch soft jerkbait in shad and bluegill patterns. Mix in a hollow body frog and spinnerbait. Crappie are schooled up on main lake brush piles and deep grass lines hitting crappie jigs or minnows. Use a lighter jig head as the water cools down if wind allows for it. Water clarity is 3-4 feet of visibility. Report by Captain Kirk Pasalich, Artifishable Fishing Guide Service.
Bastrop
GOOD. Water normal stain; 88 degrees. Bass are good on rocks and ledges with a shaky head or crankbait. A frog or wakebait around grass will catch some good bass as well. Report by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs.
Belton
GOOD. Water normal stain; 71 degrees; 0.76 feet above pool. White bass fishing improves as the water temperatures continue to drop. The bite is running strongest from 7:45-10:50 a.m. Fish can be caught in high numbers fishing vertically out to 20 feet until 7:45 a.m., then move out to 35-45 feet. The MAL Dense with chartreuse tail fishing in conjunction with Garmin LiveScope and assisted by a slashing device. Once the catching at a particular area seems to go past peak, move to a new location even when fish are still showing on sonar. Keep an eye on the skies as the first gulls, terns, and loons should show before Thanksgiving. Lake Belton is producing high numbers of smaller fish, whereas nearby Stillhouse is producing lower numbers of larger fish. Afternoons are producing about 70-percent of the catch versus mornings. Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service. Catfish are excellent. Anglers can find blue catfish around sand flats and river channels in 10-20 feet. Larger fresh cut baits have been effective for trophy size fish. Eater fish under 10 pounds can be caught deadsticking with small cut shad along ledges and river channels. Channel catfish are great and can be caught on punch bait in 10-20 feet of water. Flatheads are good on live bait in shallow water around river mouths. Report by Brian Worley, B&S Catfishing.
Benbrook
FAIR. Water normal stain; 62 degrees; 3.21 feet below pool. Catfish are good in 18-30 feet on cut or stink bait. Hybrids are fair in 15-40 feet on live bait, many smaller smaller size fish are being caught. Crappie are fair next to timber in 15-30 feet on minnows. Report by Hundley's Guide Service.
Bois d'Arc
FAIR. Normal stain; 63 degrees; 2.07 below pool. Morning bass bite has slowed due to the dropping water temperature. Spinnerbaits and chatterbaits are best on the outside edge of grass in 3-5 feet. Yum dingers and flukes are also good on the edge of grass. Texas rigs and jigs are good around bushes and timber 4-7 feet. Squarebill crankbaits are fair around rocks and boat ramp areas in 3-5 feet. Report by Marc Mitchell, Mitchell's Guide Service. Crappie are good in the channels in 25-40 feet of water with plastic jigs over hand ties. Drop the bait down and shake it. Finding keeper size crappie can be a challenge. You will have to cover a lot of water to find keepers. Report by River Bottom Boys Guide Service.
Bridgeport
FAIR. Water clear; 64 degrees; 4.26 feet below pool. Crappie are good in 10-25 feet of water on docks, and offshore brush piles with minnows or jigs. Largemouth bass are good using topwaters on banks in the morning or for deeper schooling fish. Some can be caught on crankbaits and chatterbaits on main lake rock and docks. White bass and hybrids are fair on main lake humps and points with topwaters, slabs or trolling with deep crankbaits. Catfish are good on cut or live bait on main lake humps, deeper holes in coves, and in the river on boulders. Report by Jack Pellegrini, Lake Bridgeport Crappie Guide Service.
Cedar Creek
EXCELLENT. Water slightly stained; 6 degrees; 3.05 feet below pool. Good stacks of hybrid striped bass and white bass are being found on mid-lake points and drop-offs along sandy flats throughout the dam area, Crappie Island, Key Ranch, and the spillway humps in 12–22 feet of water. Cast spinnerbaits and slabs, and watch for schooling fish on these flats as well as around deeper seawalls and shorelines. Fish any hump in 14–22 feet across the lake to find schools stacked up as the day warms. Schooling activity is best on cloudier days. Birds are starting to show up with the cooling weather and will become more consistent indicators of active fish as fall continues. To catch hybrids use spinnerbaits or work a slab vertically with a fast up-and-down motion for immediate strikes. A slow retrieve with a slab cast and reeled steadily back is also effective. Try rattle traps, spoons, umbrella rigs, slabs, or sassy shads to trigger bites. The crappie bite continues to improve. Target crappie with small jigs and minnows in 5–12 feet under bridge pylons, brush piles, and docks. Anglers are finding limits by moving from spot to spot catching several fish before relocating. Guides report conditions improving, with larger crappie showing up more frequently. Report by Brent Herbeck, Herbeck’s Lonestar Fishing Guide Service. Catfishing is good in 2-8 feet of water on the north end, or drifting 10-36 feet of water throughout the lake with fresh gizzard shad and cut rough fish. Report by Jason Barber, Kings Creek Adventures.
Comanche Creek
80 degrees; 0.20 feet above pool. Comanche Creek continues to boast on limits of eater sized channel catfish using prepared baits. Largemouth bass numbers are excellent on soft plastics and crankbaits. Some anglers are reporting catches around 100 bass per day with some bigger fish to 6 pounds possible. Tilapia are abundant and are good on worms fished under a cork. Report by Michael Acosta, Unfair Advantage Charters.
Cooper
FAIR. Water stained; 67 degrees; 3.71 feet below pool. Crappie are in the river channels migrating to the dam. All species are thick at the dam making it difficult to target a specific species. Report by River Bottom Boys Guide Service.
Cypress Springs
EXCELLENT. Water normal stain; 65 degrees; 1.02 feet below pool. Crappie are excellent in the old river channels dropping jigs down and shaking them. Fish are suspended 13-20 feet down in the water column migrating to deeper water. Report by River Bottom Boys Guide Service.
Eagle Mountain
GOOD. Water normal stain; 65 degrees; 2.48 feet below pool. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows around boat docks. Catfish are good on punch bait and cut bait in 6 feet of water. Black bass are fair around boat docks on swim baits and jerkbaits. Yellow catfish are good on live bait. Sand bass are fair on slabs on main lake humps. Report by Captain Bobby Mann, Catch a Dream Guide Service.
Fayette
SLOW. Water slightly stained; 73 degrees; full pool. High winds have limited the fishing, and the blue bird days are slowing the bite. A few bass can be caught on shallow points with rattle traps, or on shaky heads in deeper water. Report by Mark Fransen, Fransen's Guide Service.
Graham
GOOD. Water stained; upper 65 degrees; 3.50 feet below pool. Crappie are good on brush in 13-15 feet with minnows. The bass bite is good with topwater baits as in the back of pockets while bass feed on shad. Sand bass and hybrids are schooling around the hot water outlet. The bite is good on shad or bucktail jigs. Catfish are in pockets feeding on shad, so cast cut shad to land a catch.
Granbury
GOOD. normal stain; 65 degrees; 1.03 feet below pool. Lake Granbury water temperatures are from the low to middle 60s with some temperature close to 70 on those warmer days. Water levels are about 1.5 feet low. Sand bass and small striped bass are being caught all over the lake from near Blue Water Shores to the area near the city beach. Look in 10-15 feet of water on flats adjacent to creek channels. Striped bass are slow to fair on live shad fished near ledges from Striper Alley to Indian Harbor. Look for birds to point you to active fish. Largemouth bass are good in numbers with an occasional bigger fish. Best action is reported near main lake points and in the river above Granbury. Crankbaits and topwater early and then soft plastics later. Crappie action continues to be good to excellent on small minnows and jigs fished on submerged structure. The best crappie action is from near Indian Harbor to Bent water on submerged timber and near bridge pilings. Catfish action is picking up for those bigger yellows and blues on the upper ends. Cut shad is preferred fished on flats adjacent to the river channel. Report by Michael Acosta, Unfair Advantage Charters.
Grapevine
GOOD. Water stained; 68 degrees; 0.23 feet below pool. White bass are feeding heavily with mixed bags of crappie and catfish mixed in. Target white bass midlake on the north shore in 12-17 feet of water under the birds. Water clarity has improved, so use Irish special or shad slabs fished off the bottom. Report by Omar Cotter, Luck O'the Irish Fishing Guide Service.
Hawkins
FAIR. Water slightly stained; 65 degrees. There is an early and late bite on small topwater patterns for bass and bream. Watch for schooling bass mid-lake. Chain pickerel will become more active when water cools. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service.
Jacksonville
SLOW. Water normal stain; 67 degrees; 0.04 feet above pool. Bass are keying on shad all over the lake. Cast Alabama rigs, swimbaits, and topwaters to catch these fish. Catch brush fish on Texas rigs, shaky heads, jigs and dropshots.
Lavon
FAIR. Water stained; 68 degrees; 3.21 feet below pool. Crappie are great in 15-20 feet on structure with igs and minnows. Some black bass are in 2-10 feet of water. A few bass have been caught on a ledge in 22 feet, but the best catches are in 10-15 feet when the sun comes up with a squarebill crankbait and 12 foot series 5 diver, watermelon red watermelon green creature baits, or plastic worms. White and chartreuse spinnerbait is good early. If you have live scope a small 5/8 ounce paddle tail jigs will land a bite. There are still a few white bass in 10-15 feet of water, but most of them are now in black water. Black water means the water appears black due to the abundance of gizzard shad. You should see this in 2-4 feet along the bank. Cast to the bank, almost hitting the bank and drag it across over their heads. After the third reel on your fishing reel, it is pretty much over and you have to repeat. It is a quick bite and accuracy matters. If you cast 2 feet from the bank, your cast landed on fish and they will not bite. White and chartreuse paddle tail swimbaits are best. While the water temperature is dropping in the mid 60s the catfish are primarily in 10-15 feet of water, but can be schooling deep. Bite is on cut bait. Bluegills spawned about a month ago because fish smaller than a pinky nail can be caught. Bluegill, shad and tilapia spawn multiple times per year. Bluegills are active on almost every brush pile in 15-20 feet. Worms are best with the white pieces of bacon, if they are very active as they will not pull the bait off the hook and you can reuse it multiple times. A big factor in this is using a two or four pound monofilament line anything more than that your catch ratio plummets. Tilapia can be found along the banks of the marinas, and 2 feet off the shoreline in schools of 10-30 every 20 feet apart. Use a small barber 2 to 4 pound line and a small piece of worm will catch them just as fast as you can catch bluegill on brush piles. Target sandy banks and rip rap, which is the Boulders surrounding boat, ramps, dams, railroad tracks. If you do not get anything after one minute, go ahead and make your bobber deeper until you start getting bit. Report by Carey Thorn, White Bass Fishing Texas.
Lewisville
FAIR. Water normal stain; 68 degrees; 1.22 feet below pool. White bass are slow on points and humps in 12-32 feet of water. Slabs, spoons, spinnerbaits and live bait are working. Keeper sized hybrid stripers are slow in similar depths as the white bass. 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. Channel catfish are good on baited holes on humps and points in 15-30 feet of water on cut shad or punch bait. Crappie are fair in 10-34 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; 68 degrees; 2.04 feet below pool. Water temperatures rose to 70 degrees before the cold front, but expect water temperatures to dip into the 60s afterwards. Crappie are in 8-20 feet on minnows. Most fish have started migrating towards the mouths of creeks. White bass are grouping up and starting to feed for the winter. Largemouth bass are in 4-12 feet of water on brush, docks and bulkheads hitting Texas rigs and spinnerbaits. Catfish can be caught throughout the lake in 10-20 feet of water on cutbait. Some catfish are following shad into the creek. Report by Colan Gonzales, Lake Limestone Guide Service.
Navarro Mills
GOOD. 70 degrees; 0.71 full pool. Crappie are great in deep brush piles with minnows. Catfish are good with many eater sized fish and the occasional large fish. No reports of white bass or largemouth bass. Report by Navarro Mills Marina.
Palestine
GOOD. water stained; 55 degrees; 0.47 feet below pool. Fishing patterns are consistent as the water temperature drops. Crappie are good in 16-25 feet of water with jigs or minnows. Catfish are good in shallow water in the creeks with cut bait.
Palo Pinto
SLOW. stained; 65 degrees; 2.57 feet below pool. Catfish are slow in deep water on minnows and small jugs. Crappie are biting chartreuse and gray jigs or blackjigs. Sand bass and hybrids are slow. Black bass are slow. Report by Lake Palo Pinto RV Park.
Ray Hubbard
GOOD. Water normal stain; 67 degrees; 2.02 feet below pool. White bass have been fair throughout the day in shallow water on long points and coves. Later in the morning white bass are shallow in 18-21 feet on long points, coves and ledges. White bass are starting to group up and as the water temperature declines to the mid 60s fish will push to deeper open water. Crappie are good, and also moving. Fish are relating to brush piles in 18-25 feet of water and on bridge columns. Catfish are good in wooded timber in 18-22 feet on prepared punch bait. Chumming will help bring the schools into your areas. Some reports of big blue catfish catches on deep flats mid lake drifting with large cut bait. Report by John Varner, John Varner's Guide Service.
Ray Roberts
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 63 degrees; 1.12 feet below pool. Crappie are good off creek channels in 12-18 feet of water with green and chartreuse jigs. Largemouth bass are good with buzz baits and topwater lures. Target offshore rocks in 16-22 feet of water, shallow vegetation, or ditches inside secondary points with spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, or swimbaits. Channel catfish are good on baited holes. Blue catfish can be caught on flats with 18-24 feet of water with cut bait. Sand bass are fair on humps with live bait, or slabs. Report by Daniel Koberna, Lt. Dan's Crappie Co.
Richland Chambers
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 68 degrees; 1.91 feet below pool. Catfish are excellent on punch bait and cut shad. Most are being caught in the Richland Arm of the lake. White bass are being caught on slabs and in-line spinners on points and humps in 18-25 feet. Hybrids have been mixed with the white bass but are mostly undersized. This is great news for the future of hybrid fishing after the recent stocking of the lake. Black bass are going to start following the shad to the creek channels in the main lake coves. Squarebills and chatterbaits will be good and allow you to cover water. Report by Terry Hawkins Guide Service.
Somerville
FAIR. Water stained; 63 degrees; 2.32 feet below pool. At the marina crappie are slow. Bluegill fair on crickets or worms. Catfish have slowed to fair on minnows and punch bait. On the lake crappie are fair with various jigs and minnows over brush in 6-12 feet of water. Catfish are good in 5-12 feet of water on drop-offs with cut shad, punch bait or using jug lines. Black bass are fair on craw jigs and slow plastic baits in 6-14 feet of water. White bass are slow trolling with various spoons or anchored with shad and ghost minnows. Hybrids are slow with jigs or cut bait in deeper water. Below the dam all species are fishing slowly with zero water being discharged. Report by Weldon Kirk, Fish Tales Guide Service.
Stillhouse
FAIR. Water stained; 70 degrees; 0.70 feet above pool. White bass fishing improves as the water temperatures continue to drop. The bite is running strongest from 7:45-10:50 a.m. Fish can be caught in high numbers fishing vertically out to 20 feet until 7:45 a.m., then move out to 35-45 feet. The MAL Dense with chartreuse tail fishing in conjunction with Garmin LiveScope and assisted by a slashing device. Once the catching at a particular area seems to go past peak, move to a new location even when fish are still showing on sonar. Keep an eye on the skies as the first gulls, terns, and loons should show before Thanksgiving. Stillhouse is producing high numbers of smaller fish, whereas nearby Stillhouse is producing lower numbers of larger fish. Afternoons are producing about 70-percent of the catch versus mornings. Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service. Fall conditions have bass scattered, making it difficult to find big groups or consistent patterns. Large schools of nomadic bass are roaming the main lake chasing shad. Bass fishing is fair utilizing forward-facing sonar and mid-strolling small minnow-style soft plastics. For bigger bites, fish a football jig along steeper rocky shorelines. Report by Ander Meine, Bassquatch Fishing.
Tawakoni
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 74 degrees; 1.73 feet below pool. The hybrid striper and white bass bite are good. The fish are moving hard looking for good pockets of water. Fish main lake points in 8-15 feet using inline spinners and slab spoons. The eating sized catfish bite is still red hot. Easy limits on half day trips are the standard right now. Baited holes in 12-20 feet using prepared baits such as punch or dip baits. The trophy blue catfish are beginning to feed. We have seen fish in the 20-30 pound range on medium sized pieces of cut baits in 10-25 feet. Crappie are improving under bridges and on shallow brush with the bite on minnows. Largemouth bass are extremely shallow and prefer fast moving shallow crankbaits and spinnerbaits. Report by Captain Michael Littlejohn, Lake Tawakoni Guide Service.
Texoma
GOOD. Water stained; 74 degrees; 0.61 feet above pool. Striper fishing is good on live bait and swimbaits. Gulls have arrived and keep an eye out for working birds along the river channels and on shallow main lake points early. Fish are schooled up on ledges and humps in 25-45 feet of water catching them anchored with live shad. Crappie are moving on structure and docks. Bigger fish are roaming 8-12 feet on flats off creek channels and points. Brush is loaded with smaller fish and bigger crappie will move in as water temps cool. Catfishing is still good, drifting big cut shad and rough fish on deep flats off the river channels 40-60 feet of water. Eater size fish are still piled in the backs of creeks and on deep ledges off the banks. Report by Jacob Orr, Lake Texoma, Guaranteed Guide Service. Stripers are hit-or-miss but will improve as the weather cools. The bite is good on days with working birds. Target the flats in less than 30 feet of water slabs, live bait, and some swimbaits. Early topwater bite is slowing as fish move to deeper water. Report by John Blasingame, Adventure Texoma Outdoors.
Weatherford
FAIR. Water stained; 70 degrees; 5.69 feet below pool. Bait is starting to transition to the creeks. Bass are slow around docks with crankbaits. Crappie are fair on brush piles with minnows and jigs. After the cold front crappie should start showing in the crappie house. Catfish are fair around rock with cut bait and shad. Bait fish are primarily congregated in the main lake, with some fish shallow. Water visibility is 7 inches.
Whitney
GOOD. Water normal stain; 70 degrees; 1.54 feet below pool. Fishing patterns remain consistent, but expect the bite to slow during and after a cold front. Catfish are good using punch bait in 20-30 feet of water. Striped bass are good early in the morning on live bait in 25 feet of water, or on topwater baits where fish are schooling. Crappie are in the main lake brush in 20-30 feet of water. White bass are slow on main lake humps in 25-30 feet of water. Largemouth bass are good using soft plastics on deep structure and around docks. Report by Captain Cory Vinson, Guaranteed Guide Service.
Worth
GOOD. Water normal; 72 degrees; 1.49 feet below pool. Bass are good using chatterbaits in shallow water and on rocky banks. Crappie are slow. Catfish are good with cut shad. Sand bass being caught on the deeper end of the lake, bumping slabs off of the bottom. Report by Michael James, local angler.
