I have never fished the Hill Country lakes. As you may know, I'm planning a move to the Hill Country. I'll be buying a boat and equiping it with downriggers. All of my fishing has been on East Texas lakes. They basically have flat bottoms with no abrupt changes in botton structure. I have some questions:

First where can I buy, or find on the web, a topo map of Buchanon, LBJ and Canyon?

Second, what can you tell me about the bottom in hill country lakes?

Buchanan: Click here.

LBJ: Click here.

Canyon: Click here.

For other lakes: http://www.lakelubbers.com/

Thanks, but I want one with the underwater structure. capt david

Bottom is wet in all three.

Lots of trees in Buchanan with a pretty hard bottom from silver creek down to the damn. Pretty muddy water up in the Tow area.

LBJ doesn't have many trees to my knowledge.

Canyon I would imagine its a hard fairly rocky bottom. Never really been on the lake but going to fish it a few times between now and Feb.

I recon the mid-depths are wet too! But, with the drought, it might be dried up!

LBJ has a lot of black muck on the bottom in most areas which makes it tough to fish c-rig or jig. Lots of hydrilla though. Some rocky ledges and rock crops from granite in the area. Just have to learn it and know where to throw what.

You will not likely find one. Most of the older reservoirs do not have detailed topo maps. The ones I sent you are the US government maps. Sorry.

Captdave, here's a link to some old topo maps, what I have done with some of them is print up a section that had features before the lakes were made and then over-laid it to one that was current. Then I could mark roadbeds, bridges, foundations, etc on the newer map.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/texas/l.html

Have you tried navionics?