The misses and I stayed at bastrop fri, sat, and sun. Friday we fished for about 2 hours, it was a pretty slow bite. Tabi caught a nice slot on a chartruse spinnerbait, over the weeds. I ended up with 2 slots on plastic worms, the biggest being 17 1/2 inches. All of the fish on friday came in 0-3 feet of water, we could not find a deep fish to bite.

Saturday we fished from 7am till the rain stopped. Once the rain stopped we were glad to get in before the wind picked up. the old lady caught 3 and I caught 6. Most of the fish were slots and there were a few dinks. We did find a nice bedded bass near the north shore. My girlfriend caught the male an I missed the female Most of the fish came from the 0-10 foot range, and all were on plastic worms.

Sunday we started at 7am till 12. Since we had the cold front blow in the water was pretty murky. We fished a lot of water and bite was very slow for the first hour or two. Once it started warming up it was pretty much game on. I ended up with 14 and my girlfriend caught 3(she wasn't very happy with her results). All of the fish were on plastic worms in the 5-20 foot range, the bigger fish were deep and the dinks were shallow. The biggest one went 20 1/4 inches

So here is my question. What stage are the bass in pre-spawn, spawn, or post spawn. Half of the fish that were shallow looked full of eggs and the other half looked spawned out. Perhaps someone who fishes the trop more than I do can answer that question.

Here are some pics from the trip. Here is the gf and her spinnerbait bass


bass on saturday


worm bass on friday


the big mamma!

nice report greg

Hey Greg,

It has been a while since I've been to Bastrop, but the spawn may be ending there. I don't know, but seeing how it is a power plant lake, I think they spawn a month or two earlier there than other lakes around the area. What do you think?

It seems like the some fish are in every stage

The first bedders we saw started in early Jan in the coves. But the coves are now in an algae bloom so sight fishing has not been easy.

They should be showing up in the shallows of the main lake shorelines. Last weekend, we did not see a bed on the main.

Central Texas....one of the few places to catch spawners from Jan-Jun!

Sweet

Nice