Help me out here. Lake "looks" like it should be a good place to fish.

It has kicked my butt many times. Who has the insight on this lake?

sb

Good luck with that. I have found information on Canyon to be top secret.

Any guides that work the lake with success?

sb

I found down sizing everything helps on that lake, pink is a great color as well. Points seem very productive with small deep diving cranks. I work the river a lot as well with good success, cotton candy baby brush hogs are my go to.

Cool. I had heard pink was a good color for Canyon.

What few fish we have caught at Canyon have been on deep diving crank baits on points and around trees.

How do you rig your brush hogs? Carolina or something else?

Thanks, sb

TFF Canyon Lake

We are not the only ones

I hear contradictory information on how to catch them there, some say deep brushpiles and some say super shallow. Well, I�ve tried the shallow and they aren�t there. Hardest lake I�ve ever had to fish, I truly hate it.

I am starting to feel that way. May pay someone to show me.

sb

I peg my weight about 2ft in front of my bait, I use 1/8 ounce. I have Carolina rigged as well, in deeper spots. But I mainly stick with crankbaits deep. In the river I use plastics. I have had good luck around the rip rap around the dam. I have fished it a long time and these things have rarely failed me when catching bass on Canyon.

Very difficult lake to fish. The anglers who have done well on that lake have put their time in on that lake learning the patterns and marking spots to fish on their GPS. They also know the best times of the year to fish certain areas of that lake.



Side Note: Plus #1 also on what ChuChu1 stated. Good information on Canyon is usually kept very secret!

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This is very true. I have been fishing it since 96 and this is my first info I ever gave on it, lol.

The only problem with CL is Boat/and watercraft/skie/ wakeboard Traffic is Horrendous...And Boat so called Music you can hear it across lake..During warmer months During colder months its Great fishing

Grew up on Canyon. During the Summer months we wouldn't bother going fishing until midnight and would return around 8am.

I target the striped fish. I'm in the process of learning the lake as well.
Here's what I have so far.

- You don't look for a school of fish or school of bait. You look for "a fish" on the graph. When you find one ("a fish"), stop and fish the area. Others are usually near. I've tried fishing when I see loons (or some kind of diving duck/bird critter). But It's never produced any fish for me.

- Maybe because of the clear water they just spook more easily? I think you have to fish a "fishy" area most of time rather than fishing an area that you marked fish at. When checking out a "fishy" area, it's better to use the trolling motor.

- I don't think that shad are the main source of bait. Minnows, perch & probably crappie are my guess as the food source. So if fishing lures, I'm throwing those perch colored baits.

- At the current water temp, the most fish I'm seeing/catching are coming from the area of where the river dumps into the lake. But once water temps heat up, it becomes where can you fish more than where to fish due to all of the recreation traffic.


I'm still learning.