LAKE BUCHANAN: Water clear; 70 degrees; 1018.28' : Largemouth are good in 8'-14' using post-spawn finesse techniques with a 3/16 oz. pumpkin Terminator Finesse Jig (www.terminatorlures.com) w/Uncle Josh (www.unclejosh.com) trailers or pitching blue gill 4" Super Tube Heavy (www.cremelure.com) or pumpk/grn Senkos to ledges with brushpiles or laydowns inside of creek points. Topwaters like a white Tiny-T buzzbait or chuggers will produce early and late along creek flats. Stripers are fair in 28' of water below Flag Island trolling white/chart Hyper Striper jigs (www.kgenterprise.com) and drifting live bait. Limited topwater action on Rat-L-Traps (www.rat-l-trap.com) and Red Fins early and late along shallow mainlake rocky points. To book a guided trip for largemouth or stripers contact JR's Guide Service at (830) 833-5688 or email [email protected] CANYON LAKE: Water clear; 72 degrees; 910.80' : Largemouth are fair to good early in 8'-14' of water on a Carolina rigged watermelon Snap Back jerkbaits(www.terminatorlures.com), Fat Free Shad crankbaits and watermelon/red Sliding Weight Craw Fish (www.slidingweight.com) rigged Finesse style. Early morning topwater action on chrome Rat-L-Tops (www.rat-l-trap.com) and Tiny-T buzzbaits over flats in 2'-5 feet. Upriver, pitching a pumpkin 4" Super Tube Heavy (www.cremelure.com), Senkos www.canyonlakefishing.com) and wtrmelon Snap Back creature baits are producing fish to 5 lbs. along 10' breaklines. Smallmouth are good in tight to steep ledges in 8'-20' using pumpkin drop shot Devil's Tongues, grn/pumpk Terminator Finesse jigs with Uncle Josh (www.unclejosh.com and rootbeer Yamamoto grubs. Stripers are slow on live perch and vertically jigging white/chartreuse Hyper Striper (www.kgenterprise.com) jigs with their plastic trailers. For area info. or to book a guided trip with the only licensed, fulltime, professional guides on Canyon Lake contact JR'S GUIDE SERVICE www.jrguideservice.com. Call (830) 833-5688 or email [email protected], Or, see us at FISHERMAN'S CORNER www.canyonlakefishing.com, FM 306 at Potter's Creek Rd., (210) 213-2534. Check out the largest selection of quality tackle and live bait of any dealer in the area; Terminator, Creme,Berkley, Zoom, Tuff Line, Ambassadeur and a full line of trout tackle and bait.
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