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Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas
Capt. Jim Files
September 17, 2004
Canyon Lake - Freshwater Fishing Report
CANYON LAKE: Water clear; 80 degrees; 909.27':
Largemouth are very good to 6 lbs. early along breaklines using Snap Back jerkbaits (www.terminatorlures.com) rigged on a 5/0 weighted Bait Jerker Hook (www.falconlures.com) and later in 15'-20' on smoke-red flake Snap Back tubes and Texas rigged watermelon-red Scoundrel worms(www.cremelure.com). Upriver, bass are good for the first couple of hours of daylight all day under cloud cover on Silver Shad 1/4 oz. Terminator spinnerbaits, Rat-L-Top (www.rat-l-trap.com) topwaters and
pitching Texas rigged junebug Snap Back creature baits to trees along channel breaklines. Plastics stay in place better if you'll add a drop of Pro's Soft Bait Glue to the hook eye when rigging. CHECK OUT: (www.prosoftbaitglue.com)
Smallmouth to 3 lbs in 20' of water on smoke-red tubes, pumpkin-brn. 3/16 oz. finesse jigs w/Uncle Josh (www.unclejosh.com) pork trailers and rootbeer curl tail grubs.
Striped Bass are slow suspended in 70'-80' of water over 100' bottom near the dam. When/if they do come up to feed try trolling a white/gray Hyper Striper jig (www.kgenterprise.com) w/plastic trailer on downriggers
or vertically jigging a 1 oz. Pirk Minnow through the school.
Crappie are fair to good in 12'-20' of water on 1/16 oz. white Curb's crappie jigs, white/blue Tube Jigs and live minnows.
For area information, accommodations, fishing or to book a guided trip with the most experienced, Fulltime, professional guide service fishing
Canyon for 40 years contact JR's Guide Service (www.jrguideservice.com). Call Jim at: (830) 833-5688 or email [email protected]. Your most convenient bait and tackle dealer to the upper end and Guadalupe River on the south side of the lake is Canyon Bait House, 15695 Cranes Mill Rd., (830) 899-9747.
LAKE LBJ: Water stained; 81 degrees; 824.80':
Black Bass are good at first light along creek points and rip rap using chartreuse 7/16 oz. Terminator tungsten (www.terminatorlures.com)spinnerbaits, topwaters, watermelon-red Craw Tubes
(www.cremelure.com) on Texas rigs and wacky style pumpkin plastic Whacky Sticks (www.cremelure.com) rigged on a 3/0 "K" Wacky Hook (www.falconlures.com).
Striped Bass are fair to good at night using 1/4 oz. white grubs and plastic swim baits like a 2" Lit'l Fishie Shad (www.cremelure.com).
White Bass are very good at night in 8'-20' breaklines on 1-1/2" Lit'l Fishies, white Curb's crappie jigs and live minnows.
Crappie are good at night using white or chartreuse 1/32 oz. Curb's crappie jigs and live minnows.
**Our guided night trips are producing limits of white bass, several crappie and stripers for all anglers on each trip.** To book a guided fishing trip with the only fulltime professional guides fishing LBJ for over 40 years contact JR's Guide Service
(www.jrguideservice.com). Call (830) 833-5688 or email: [email protected]
LAKE TRAVIS: Water clear; 81 degrees 679.77' (15' above average):
Black Bass are good to 4 lbs. along chunk rock early using green-pumpkin Whacky Sticks w/chartreuse tails (www.cremelure.com), green bug
Photon crankbaits (www.photonlures.com) and 2" plastic swimbaits. Later, fish are most cooperative in 12'-20' on mainlake points using green-pumpkin Snap Back tubes (www.terminatorlures.com), pumpkin Slider worms on jigheads and Texas rigged 6" watermelon-red Scoundrel
worms and 3/16 oz. brn-pumpkin finesse jigs w/Uncle Josh pork trailers (www.unclejosh.com).
To book a guided bass trip contact JR's Guide Service (www.jrguideservice.com) Call (830) 833-5688 or email [email protected].
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