Capt. Jim Files
February 3, 2002
Canyon Lake - Freshwater Fishing Report
LAKE BUCHANAN
Water clear; 53.5 degrees; 1015.13':
LARGEMOUTH are fair in 8'-14' slowrolling a Texas red 3/8 oz. Terminator spinnerbait, 4" watermelon/red SlidingWeight Craw Fish (www.slidingweight.com) and junebug 4" Disc Worms (www.bigbitebaits.com) along breaklines of flats on creek points. Work ledges along creek points and brush piles under docks pitching a 3/16 oz. Terminator Finesse Jig and pork trailer. Also, a Devil's Tongue on drop shot or split shot rigs are producing.
STRIPERS are good above The Willows drifting live or cut bait and jigging a Pirk Minnow or Lit'l Fishie Shad in 18'-30'.
WHITE BASS are grouping up in the mouth of creeks. We anticipate a good spawning run this year since there hasn't been in 3 years.
Conditions are ideal for an early largemouth spawn.
Right now, target rock piles along breaklines of flats and feeder creeks using a gray/blue or pumpkin 3" SlidingWeight Craw Fish (www.slidingweight.com),pumpkin
or watermelon Terminator Finesse Jigs and Devil's Tongues.
STRIPERS AND WHITE BASS are good to very good in 30' of water jigging a Pirk Minnow, Lit'l Fishie Shads and white Curb's bucktails with plastic trailers. The spawning run HAS NOT STARTED! Only undersized males upriver until March.
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