
The following fishing reports are provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for the week of November 26:
LAKE BROWNWOOD
- GOOD. Water stained; 65 degrees; 2.28 feet below pool. Black bass to 8 pounds are good in 13-28 feet of water on Alabama rigs, and along the shoreline in 3-8 feet with a bladed jig, crankbait or jigs. Crappie are excellent to 12 inches on minnows and jigs on the main lake scattered brush piles in 10-15 feet. White bass are slow to 1.50 pounds out of the lights at night. Catfish are fair on jug lines with cut shad or perch.
LAKE CISCO
- GOOD. Water normal stain; 78 degrees; 15.96 feet above pool. Cooler weather and passing fronts have brought north winds and occasional light rain to Lake Cisco, making conditions a bit tougher but still producing fish. Catfish remain the most consistent bite, with anglers catching good numbers on cut shad and punch bait around creek channels. Crappie action is slowly improving on brush and timber in 12-20 feet using minnows. Bass reports are light, but a few are moving shallow on warmer afternoons and hitting spinnerbaits and squarebills around rocks. Wind can make the lake choppy, so use caution.
LAKE COLEMAN
- SLOW. Water stained; 68 degrees; 2.70 feet below pool. Bass are fair to 3 pounds on small finesse worms in 10-15 feet of water. Crappie good to 2 pounds on jigs and minnows in 10-15 feet of water on the main lake docks and in the timber towards the creek.
LAKE O.H. IVIE
- FAIR. Water stained; 65 degrees; 18.78 feet below pool. Black bass are good for 5 pound fish. Good numbers of schooling bass throughout the lake. Target bass in the pockets and drains with 3 inch shad patterned swimbaits on quarter ounce heads. Schools of bait are back in the pockets. Work 6 inch plum apple worms through brush and grass in 5-18 feet of water. Very few reports of crappie limits. Target crappie in the Turkey Bend area suspended down 18-25 feet on main lake pecan trees in 30-25 feet of water. Minnows are working best. No reports of white bass. Catfish are good up both rivers in 5-20 feet of water on cut shad and cheese bait under drop lines as well as rod and reels. Report by Wendell Ramsey, Ramsey Fishing.
LAKE PROCTOR
- FAIR. Water stained; 64 degrees; 2.25 feet below pool. Crappie are on ledges in about 15-18 feet. Bass are moving to deep ledges. Catfish are moving deeper in 15-20 feet. Hybrids are in the upper end of the lake main river channel following the shad, so follow the shad busting the top of the water. The front pushing in is causing all the fish to start moving deeper. There is a double cold front in the forecast so expect a tough bite. Report Juan Tienda, local angler.