Texas Fishing Reports

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - CANYON LAKE Surface water temperatures above 80 degrees, heavy recreational boating traffic and windy conditions are making fishing difficult during the day in the main lake. Our night/early morning trips have been the most successful for our client more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - LAKE LBJ Generally, fishing is best at night. I always hesitate to exaggarate or raise expectations of our clients, but they have been boating 20-40 fish (bass, white bass, crappie & stripers)per night. LARGEMOUTH are good up to 8 lbs. in most areas more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - LAKE BUCHANAN Water - Clear; level- 1018.45'(6' above pool); Temp-78 LARGEMOUTH are good very early on a topwater bite along sloping points and flats in 4'-8' of water. Our clients are taking fish up to 8 lbs. on 1/8 & 1/4 oz. black Terminator buzzb more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - CANYON LAKE Condtions are perfect for the early morning topwater & subsurface action we're having; water very clear, 78 degrees and normal elevation. Main lake sloping points and flats with flooded buck brush and willows are holding largemouth to 5 more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - LAKE LBJ LARGEMOUTH are finally over their post-spawn blues and are much more cooperative. We are taking blacks to 6 lbs. on a very early morning top water bite using Zara Spooks, Pop R's & 1/8 and 1/4 oz. Terminator buzzbaits over sloping creek po more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - CANYON LAKE Water gin clear; 72 degrees; 910': LARGEMOUTH have moved onto chunk rock banklines and rock ledges. The topwater bite is VERY early and only last for the first hour of daylight along pockets of banklines in 4'-8' of water with laydowns a more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - CANYON LAKE LARGEMOUTH have moved into a typical summertime pattern along deeper ledges. There is shortlived early shallow water action along chunk rock banklines in 4'-12' using white/chartreuse 1/8 oz. Terminator spinnerbaits, plastic jerkbaits an more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - LAKE LBJ Bass are in their post-spawn period after just coming off the beds. For the rest of the summer and into fall we will be catching numbers rather than those in the 6 to 10 lb. category that we have over the past month. Horseshoe Bay, Flying K more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - CANYON LAKE The spawn is over and all fish are in post-spawn patterns. LARGEMOUTH are working their out of secondary coves by way of channels. Work 6'-10' breaklines of gravel flats with special attention to brush or rock piles using 2 Lit'l Fishie more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake

Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas - LAKE BUCHANAN LARGEMOUTH and SPOTTED BASS are spawning right now. Since we make it a practice not to fish over bedding bass we are working water from 4'-8' deep in pockets and coves off of creeks using plastic jerkbaits, 4 & 6 Ice Tea and watermel more...
Capt. Jim Files - Canyon Lake