The following fishing reports are provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for the week of September 25:
LAKE BROWNWOOD
GOOD. Water stained; 80 degrees; 1.75 feet above pool. Black bass up to 5.67 pounds are fair on Hags’s baits with soft plastics and frogs casting into the newly submerged grass and weeds. Some catches with crankbaits in 2-8 feet of water around the rock cuts. Crappie are slow with catches up to 10 inches around docks with brush in 9-15 feet of water with minnows. White bass are excellent with catches up to 1.50 pounds on crankbaits around the lighted docks. Catfish are fair with catches up to 3 pounds on cut bait and on artificial lures.
LAKE CISCO
GOOD. Water normal stain; 73 degrees; 13.44 feet below pool. Crappie have really been doing good on minnows. Also a few anglers are having luck on channel and blue catfish on perch, worms and cutbait. Report by Lake Cisco Rentals.
LAKE COLEMAN
SLOW. Water stained; 85 degrees; 0.53 feet below pool. Largemouth bass are slow on topwaters early in the morning, or flipping a senko into cattails. Crappie are fair with jigs and minnows.
LAKE O.H. IVIE
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 79 degrees; 25.89 feet below pool. Flooded green vegetation is starting to decay and sour moving fish out further into the brush and suspending in open water. Black bass are slow, with one 12 pounder and a 9 pounder reported. Main lake water is clear with schooling activity in open water. Bass are moving around being caught on topwaters, rattle traps and small minnow shad imitating baits. Upper end stained and tough fishing but a few bass being caught on worms. Still some debris moving around with the wind so be careful on the upper end of the lake. Crappie are good with fish suspended in trees in deeper water hitting minnows and small jigs. White bass are still being caught at night mainly under lights. Catfish fair on cut bait and shrimp in a variety of places shallow and deep. Report by Wendell Ramsey, Ramsey Fishing.
LAKE PROCTOR
SLOW. Water stained; 85 degrees; 0.70 feet above pool. The lake is over full pool and with water being released at 100 cfs, this is the highest rate of release for the last 9 years. One fishing dock is open in South Creek Park. Early morning fishing on jugs has been productive for catfish. Recent sightings of alligator gar behind the dam.