texasfishingforum.com logo
Main Menu
Advertisement
Affiliates
Advertisement
Newest Members
TraeMartin, Power-Pole CS, T-Rigger, JoeGoes, EcKo
119150 Registered Users
Top Posters(All Time)
hopalong 120,579
TexDawg 119,518
Bigbob_FTW 94,889
John175☮ 85,892
Pilothawk 83,260
Bob Davis 81,483
Mark Perry 72,289
Derek 🐝 68,312
JDavis7873 67,416
Forum Statistics
Forums59
Topics1,037,836
Posts13,935,361
Members144,150
Most Online39,925
Dec 30th, 2023
Print Thread
Canyon Lake 9-04-16 #11818220 09/08/16 06:42 PM
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 2,006
ShawnT Offline OP
Extreme Angler
OP Offline
Extreme Angler
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 2,006
Hit Canyon on Sunday against my better judgement. Well, actually I hit Dunlap first for about an hour with only 1 bite and a few waves from wake boats crashing over the side of my boat so I loaded up and then went to Canyon at about 1pm. The catching wasnt actually too bad. I met up with a friend who was already on the lake and found some fish in some skunkweed so I headed over there and we caught a few out of the grass up to 2 1/2 pounds in about 4-6ft of water on moving baits. There were balls of bait every where.

We both started flipping big hardwoods and I picked up a couple more two pounders and then the biggest fish I have caught on Canyon in a while that went 5.22. My buddy picked up a 3 1/2 pounder and another that was pushing 4 pounds. We were flipping trees in 8-12' of water with creature baits way back in a creek to get away from the boat traffic. There are a lot of fish on points and brushpiles that can be caught on drop shot (so I'm told) but the window to fish those is from daylight til about 11, then the big boats come out and make it tough.

Went up the river about a mile south of Rebecca Creek and flipped more trees and caught 1 small fish. Frankly, it is not worth running up there when the lake is this full at this time of year. As I was fishing I saw a ski boat hit a stump right by me and he took some pretty good chunks out of that stump. The guy says "what are the odds of that, the river is 150 yards wide and I hit the only stump". I didnt mention that the river channel is really only about 20 yards wide and there are stumps every where.

I've been told the big smallmouth are starting to bite on topwaters near bluff walls in the early mornings. I did dropshot some points in 18-24' of water a few weeks ago and caught a ton of fish (probably 20-30 with 4 small mouth mixed in) and out of all of those only 4 kept. Most of my keepers I catch on that lake come from shallow water, but there is always numbers out deep.


THURSDAY NIGHTERS
LOCATION: Canyon Lake
TIME: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
www.thursdaynighters.com
Find us on FaceBook
Re: Canyon Lake 9-04-16 [Re: ShawnT] #11818306 09/08/16 07:28 PM
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 16,028
G
grout-scout Online Sleepy
TFF Guru
Online Sleepy
TFF Guru
G
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 16,028
Great report!

I cringe everytime I go up the river and wait for the "pop".

Re: Canyon Lake 9-04-16 [Re: ShawnT] #11819498 09/09/16 12:34 PM
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 19,218
Jimbo Offline
TFF Guru
Offline
TFF Guru
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 19,218
The guy says "what are the odds of that, the river is 150 yards wide and I hit the only stump".

Haha!.....Only stump, yeah right! roflmao

Nice report! thumb


Just one more cast!

Re: Canyon Lake 9-04-16 [Re: ShawnT] #11820582 09/09/16 11:58 PM
Joined: Apr 2016
Posts: 401
Wes H Offline
Angler
Offline
Angler
Joined: Apr 2016
Posts: 401
Thanks for the report ShawnT.

I wish I would have read this report before going out there today but I had a good day out there as well. Still haven't gotten anything over 4 from that lake though lol

Picked up about 6 fish total in about 4 hours (noon til 4). They were all pretty shallow but to be honest I didn't give anything of depth much of a chance today. Would love to know where you find those numbers out deep flehan My smaller fish today came off a baby bass pattern square bill on rocky banks. The larger fish came in about 5-10' flipping trees with a green pumpkin red flake biffle bug in Toms Creek area.

This was my largest for the day, came off a tree in 5'. It has to be one of the coolest looking fish i've ever caught, this pic doesn't do it justice.

Last edited by Wes H; 09/09/16 11:59 PM.

fish
Re: Canyon Lake 9-04-16 [Re: ShawnT] #11820627 09/10/16 12:40 AM
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 16,028
G
grout-scout Online Sleepy
TFF Guru
Online Sleepy
TFF Guru
G
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 16,028
Awesome, I've never caught a small mouth there. Sadly I think I've caught more crappie while bass fishing there than I have bass.

Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread

© 1998-2022 OUTDOOR SITES NETWORK all rights reserved USA and Worldwide
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.3