Athens – SLOW. Water normal stain; 87 degrees; 0.34 feet above pool. Bass have been slow and scattered. Best options are outside grass lines on windy banks. Jigs and shaky-head worms are working, but you will need to cover a lot of water. Some bass are schooling. Crappie are slow as well. The night bite on deep brush with minnows is the most consistent pattern. Report by Jim Brack, Athens Guide Service.
Cedar Creek – EXCELLENT. slightly stained; 87 degrees; 0.47 feet below pool. Hybrids and white bass are good early in the morning at daylight on midlake points and drop offs along sandy flats throughout the dam area, Crappie Island, Key Ranch and the spillway humps in 13-22 feet. Cast spinners and slabs and look for schooling fish on these flats as well as deeper seawalls and shorelines. Then fish any hump in 17-25 feet throughout the lake to find fish stacked up in schools as the day heats up. Use spinnerbaits or drop a slab down to the bottom and work it fast up and down and the fish will hit it immediately. Also throwing out a slab and reeling it back with a slow retrieve is also working well. The evening bite from 5-9 p.m has also been very good. Hit up seawalls close to points in depths of 5-18 feet and cast rattle traps, spoons, slabs or sassy shads to get the hybrids to bite. The crappie bite has been getting better. Target crappie with small jigs and minnows in 5-12 feet under bridge pylons, hidden brush piles throughout the lake or under docks. Limits are being reported, although guides have been reporting conditions are improving with bigger sized fish being caught. Report by Brent Herbeck, Herbeck’s Lonestar Fishing Guide Service. Catfish are good in 18-24 feet on main lake humps with cut shad. Report by Jason Barber, Kings Creek Adventures.
Limestone – GOOD. Water slightly stained; 90 degrees; 0.60 feet below pool. Catfish are in 15-20 feet of water. Largemouth bass and crappie are good on offshore brush, standing timber and power lines in 11-14 feet. White bass are good on silver War Eagle super spoons in 6-16 feet. Sandies are schooling on the surface. There is a good bite at night on docks with lights on beetle spins. Report by Colan Gonzales, CG’s Just Fishing Guide Service.
