Caddo Lake water murky; 84–89 Degrees and is 0.38' high. Largemouth Bass are fair on Lake watermelon flukes and Texas rigged worms in the bayous on the edges of the grass – also on LFT frogs over the pads and grass. Crappie are fair on shiners around deeper trees and oil rigs. Red Ear Bream are fair on crickets in shallow cypress breaks. No reports on catfish.
Lake Athens water is fairly clear, 84 to 88 degrees and 0.23' high. Largemouth bass are fair on buzz-baits early in morning, later switch to Texas-rigs and smaller jigs. Crappie fishing is good on jigs and live minnows in about 10 yo 15 feet of water around and over brush piles. Catfish are good on night-crawlers and most prepared baits.
Lake Athens water is fairly clear, 84 to 88 degrees and 0.23' high. Largemouth bass are fair on buzz-baits early in morning, later switch to Texas-rigs and smaller jigs. Crappie fishing is good on jigs and live minnows in about 10 yo 15 feet of water around and over brush piles. Catfish are good on night-crawlers and most prepared baits.
Lake Bastrop water is clear. Largemouth bass are fair on watermelon spinner-baits and Rat L Traps. The Crappie fishing is fair on Live minnows. Channel/blue catfish are good on shrimp and stink-bait. Yellow catfish are slow at this writing.
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Choke Canyon Largemouth bass are only fair on small white/chartreuse spinner-baits, shallow running crank-baits, and pumpkin Whacky-Sticks with chartreuse tails along main points. Choke Canyon water is clear and 85 degrees. The Lake is 3.29' below pool. White bass are also slow. Crappie fishing is slow. Catfish are very good on live-bait. Yellow and blue catfish are very good on live bait in the upper-most parts of the river.
