I never fish up the river. Main lake around cranes mill and mouth of the river by fishing dock is where it�s at. Gotta say I haven�t fished that lake this year. But the 3 years I did fish it, I have never made it too the rapids everyone talks about. I can catch enough spawning fish on the main lake without ever going past the first bend in the river. This cold weather should keep the fish out of the river a little longer. Calm cloudy days in March are some of the best top water action I�ve ever seen on canyon lake.

Yes, it is a fishing dock built over one of the 44 brush pile fish attractors that TP&W has put throughout the lake. The brush pile is not all around it but rather directly under the open fishing hole in the middle of the dock. The crowd is not so bad weekdays, but weekends can be quite crowded as it is the only functional such place to fish in the entire lake. Most people use minnows, a few use jigs. Cats, whites, LMB, and stripers are also sometimes caught there.

My sister and I put in at Ramp 11 at 8AM today and fished from the rapids and downstream to 15 foot depths.
We fished mostly with live minnows and some with artificial. Skunked. 8 boats total up he river. Spoke
to a couple of other skunkees and one guy that caught 3 males. We left at noon.

Water temp was 56F. Wind out of the south.

Recommendation � wait a week if you are considering this run.

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My sister and I put in at Ramp 11 at 8AM today and fished from the rapids and downstream to 15 foot depths.
We fished mostly with live minnows and some with artificial. Skunked. 8 boats total up he river. Spoke
to a couple of other skunkees and one guy that caught 3 males. We left at noon.

Water temp was 56F. Wind out of the south.

Recommendation � wait a week if you are considering this run.