CURRENT AREA FISHING REPORTS

Most of the products mentioned in the fishing reports are available in our store. Stop in soon for a visit and check out our inventory offering over 2,000 sq. ft. of the most popular and classic brands of freshwater fishing equipment including the hottest lures, swimbaits, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and jigs on the market, live bait and tackle for all your fishing needs!  We are Central Texas' #1 Lake Fork Tackle and River2Sea dealers and Canyon Lake's locally owned full-time Professional Fishing Guide Service, serving the South Central Texas area for over 13 years. So if you are in need of a fishing guide referral, just give us a call at 210-213-2534.

   You  may also purchase merchandise from our on-line store at  www.texasbasstackle.com

COMING SOON: more 3:16 Lures!

NEW IN STOCK: Lake Fork Hyper Stick! Oldham's Football Head Jigs! Reaction Innovations Trixie Shark! Norman Lures 5" Razor Minnow! Big Bite Baits! Abu Garcia Kalex, Cardinal 100 & 300 Spinning Reels! Revenge Vibrators! Strike King 5" King Shad! Optimum 5" Baby Thru-Line! Mend-It! Storm Live Kickin Shad and Kickin Sticks! Zappu Inchi Wacky Hooks! Big Bite Fighting Frogs! Tru Tungsten Madd Maxx Frog! Trokar Hooks! Abu Garcia Vendetta Rods! Skeet Reese Tessera Rods! Berkley Saltwater baits & Gulp Alive Jerk Shad!

Trout: Good on yellow Berkley biodegradable trout bait on #16 treble hooks, fluorescent orange power trout worm on #10 gold hooks or silver Terminator in-line spinners. (We have the full line of Berkley trout baits in stock)! 

CANYON LAKE - Updated 03/09/10

Please Note:  Only the following boat ramps are closed: #3 Comal Park East, #4 Comal Park West, #10 Cranes Mill Park and #18 Canyon Park Campground. The courtesy boat dock at ramp #21 is closed. Fishing piers at Potter's Creek and Cranes Mill are open. Cranes Mill Park is closed for renovations. For further updates, please call the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Canyon Lake office at 830-964-3342. Please boat safely and always remember to wear your life jacket!

Water Clarity: Stained Water Temp: 52 Current Level:  909.33 (Conservation Pool: 909.0 ft. msl)

Largemouth Bass:  Fair to 4 lbs. early on crawfish 1/2 oz. Pour Man's football jigs with watermelon red 4" Berkley chigger craw trailers over deep structures in 20-30 feet and later on whacky rigged watermelon cream 5" Yamamoto senkos on main lake and secondary points in 5-20 feet.

Smallmouth Bass:  Fair to 3 lbs. on pumpkinseed 1/4 oz. Berkley Ike's finesse jigs with Calif 420 Reaction Innovations smallie beaver trailers, trophy hunter Grande Bass baby rattlesnakes and watermelon red River2Sea Stand'n Yabbie 50 over rock piles and along bluffs in 12-20 feet.

White Bass:  Excellent on chartreuse or black shad 2" Berkley power minnows, large minnows and live crickets upriver and in back of major coves 2-8 feet.

Crappie:  Fair on white crappie jigs tipped with live minnows around brush piles and submerged trees off main lake points and upriver in 4-6 feet.

Striped Bass:  Fair trolling bleeding tiger Rapala deep tail dancers or ghost bass Strike Pro flex phantoms, vertically jigging chartreuse/silver 1-1/2 oz. Terminator pirk minnows or perch Bagley jigging minnows on main lake points and drifting hybrid bluegill or shad around the dam at night in 15-20 feet.

Perch:  Good on live crickets.

Channel Catfish:  Fair on Lewis King's punch bait or Big Marv's cheese bait in 6-20 feet.

Blue and Yellow Catfish:  Fair on trotlines and juglines baited with hybrid bluegills in 10-30 feet.

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New Items Now in Stock: Visit our on-line store at www.texasbasstackle.com and check out the new arrivals; come back often as we are continuously adding new products to the store!  

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CHOKE CANYON

Water Clarity: Stained  Water Temp: 54 degrees  Current Level: 211.76 (Conservation Pool: 220.50 ft. msl)

Largemouth Bass:  Fair to 4 lbs. early on chartreuse/white Sumo frogs or green tilapia Norman razor minnows in 2-12 feet or whacky rigged mardi gras 7" Yum Dingers on edge of grass in 15-20 feet and cranking sexy shad 3/4 oz. Luhr Jensen Hot Lips Express or sexy shad Norman DD22 over deep structures and on main lake points in 12-25 feet. Also good on plain Jane 5" Lake Fork flutter spoons with watermelon candy red 10" Zoom Ole Monster worm trailers in 20-50 feet.

White Bass:  Excellent on KT spoons upriver from the Hwy 99 Bridge and on silver Rapala #5 shad raps or live minnows in back of coves in 2-15 feet.

Crappie:  Good on black Curb's crappie jigs tipped with live minnows over brush piles and standing timber upriver in 4-12 feet. 

Channel and Blue Catfish: Fair on Lewis King's punch bait or Big Marv's cheese bait in 6-20 feet.

Yellow Catfish:  Fair on trotlines baited with perch or cut shad in 10-30 feet.

LAKE AMISTAD

Water Clarity: Stained Water Temp: 54 degrees Current Level: 1114.78 ft./339.785 meters (Conservation Pool: 1117.00 ft. msl)

Largemouth Bass:  Fair to 6 lbs. on shad 7" Storm Kickin sticks or sunfish 3:16 Lure Company swimbait over grass, flipping crawdad 1 oz. Berkley football head jigs and Big Texan Reaction Innovations double wide beavers on off shore structures or main lake points in 20-40 feet. Also good on magic shad 6" Lake Fork flutter spoons with watermelon copper 10" Wave ribbontail worm trailers in 20-50 feet.

White Bass:  Good vertically jigging chrome Tony Accetta spoons on main lake points or in back of coves and on live minnows upriver or main lake coves in 4-12 feet. 

Striped Bass: Good trolling silver Rapala Trolls-To-20 shad raps or drifting hybrid bluegills by the dam in 10-30 feet.

Catfish:  Fair on Lewis King's punch bait, live perch and shad in 6-30 feet.

FALCON LAKE 

Water Clarity: Stained Water Temp: 56 degrees Current Level: 290.42 ft./88.520 meters (Conservation Pool: 301.2 ft. msl)

Largemouth Bass:  Good to 10 lbs. on bluegill 1-1/4 oz. Revenge football head jigs with gil Zoom baby brush hog trailers, Carolina rigged sprayed grass Reaction Innovations skinny dipper or camo 7" Berkley Gulp! jerk shad and deep cranking copper perch 3/4 oz. Luhr Jensen Hot Lips Express over deep grass in 20-30 feet.

Crappie: Fair on live minnows, white crappie jigs or black shad Berkley power minnows.

Channel/Blue Catfish: Good on Lewis King's punch bait, Big Marv's cheese bait or Secret 7 dip bait.

Yellow Catfish: Fair on trotlines baited with live perch in 20-30 feet.

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