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Report for Canyon Lake & Lake LBJ, Texas
Capt. Jim Files
May 26, 2005
Canyon Lake - Freshwater Fishing Report
Canyon Lake: Water gin clear, 78 degrees; 909.97'
Largemouth are good at daylight in 5'-20' outside of stickups and standing timber on white Terminator buzzbaits (www.terminatorlures.com) shad pattern Bleeding Shad 'Traps (www.rat-l-trap.com), Carolina rigged Craw Tubes (www.cremelure.com) and grn-pumpkin Skeet Reese creature baits. Upriver, bass are good early tight to undercut banklines on channel
turns in 8'-12' on wacky rigged Ice Tea Scoundrel worms (www.cremelure.com) on a 3/0 "K" Wacky Hook (www.falconlures.com) & chart-blue back suspending
Fat Free Shad.
Smallmouth are fair early along ledges in 8'-25' on Carolina rigged chartreuse Snap Back tubes (www.terminatorlures.com), Smokin' Green Devil's
Tongues on drop shot rigs & wtrmelon Sliding Weight Craw Baby (www.slidingweight.com).
For area info. or to book a guided trip with the only licensed, fulltime pro. guides fishing Canyon Lake contact JR's Guide Service (www.jrguideservice.com). Call (830) 833-5688 or email [email protected].
Your most convenient source for live bait and tackle is Canyon Bait House, Cranes Mill Rd., (830) 899-9747.
Lake LBJ: Water stained; 77 degrees; 82475'
Largemouth are good early to 6 lbs in 3'-12' working blk/blue 1/4 oz jigs (www.terminatorlures.com), blue Bleeding Shad 'Traps (www.rat-l-trap.com). wtrmelon Skip-N-Pop topwaters (www.jdcbaits.com) in & around weed pods. Later, a junebug Whacky Stick (www.cremelure.com) or Texas rigged grn-pumpkin Skeet Reese creature bait or blk-blue 1/4 oz. Terminator rattlin' jig fished under deepwater docks produces.
Stripers are good at night on Spoiler Shads (www.cremelure.com), white bucktails w/ grub trailers and free-lining live bait.
White Bass very good at night and first light on Lit'l Fishies small white grubs and minnows.
Crappie are good at night and early AM in 8'-15' on crappie jigs and live minnows.
To book a guided trip with the only fulltime guide fishing LBJ for over 45 years contact JR's Guide Service (www.jrguideservice.com). Call (830) 833-5688 or email: [email protected]. *Our night trips
are, as always, very successful. Please book these as far in advance as possible*.
Lake Buchanan: Water clear; 76 degrees; 1017.96':
Largemouth are good early in 8'-15' on bluffs and docks using wtrmelon-red Skeet Reese creature baits (www.terminatorlures.com) , C-rigged watermelon Craw Tubes (www.cremelure.com), JDC Skip-N-Pop
(www.jdcbaits.com) topwaters and a white 1/4 oz. Big Eyez buzzbait (www.falconlures.com), Bleeding Shad Rat-L-Traps www.rat-l-trap.com), 7/16 oz. silver shad Terminator titanium spinner-baits and smoke-red
Snap Back tubes are producing along breaklines of flats in 4'-8' of water.
Stripers are good to 26" at daylight on the surface using albino Snap Back soft jerkbaits rigged on a 5/0 Bait Jerker Hook, 1/4 oz. Bleeding Shad Spin Traps and 3" Spoiler Shads.
For info. or to book a guided trip for largemouth or stripers contact JR's Guide Service (www.jrguideservice.com). Call (830) 833-5688 or email [email protected].
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