Fishing News and Reports in Canyon Lake, Texas
Posted by Mary Sallman on Sat, Jan 21, 2012
Canyon Lake, Texas Fishing News
On January 27, 28 and 29, Canyon Lake will have a new fly shop open for all you avid fishermen! ReelFly Fishing Adventures Fly Shop are touting great deals, free giveaways and free ice cold Trout Slayer beer on Tap on Saturday! If you need more equipment or if you are just staring to fly fish, this a good time to buy. They’re offering fly fishing rods at a 15% savings and giving free casting instruction with every purchase of a new rod. ReelFly Fishing Adventures Fly Shop is located at the intersection of River Road and FM 2673 in Sattler.
Canyon Lake, Texas Fishing Reports
Canyon Lake
Texas Parks and Wildlife: Fishing Report January 18, 2012 Canyon Lake: Water clear; 56–60 degrees; 10.58' low. Black bass are fair on pumpkinseed hair jigs with blue flake trailers, watermelon Carolina rigged lizards, and Texas rigged blue/black Scoundrel worms along ledges. Striped bass are good trolling silver striper jigs and vertically jigging Pirk Minnows. White bass are fair on chartreuse spinnerbaits and perch colored Rat–L–Traps along the main river channel. Smallmouth bass are fair on watermelon red curl tail grubs, smoke/red flake tubes, and drop shot worms over rock piles in 15–25 feet. Crappie are fair on minnows and green tube jigs upriver. Channel catfish are slow. Yellow and blue catfish are slow.
Gaudalupe River Below the Canyon Dam
On the Orvis website, http://www.orvis.com/fishing_report.aspx?locationid=6881, Alvin Dedeaux on January 17 reported that the fishing conditions for Rainbow Trout below the Canyon Dam were good. He suggested that the best time of day to fish was mid-morning until early afternoon and the best place to fish was from the 4th crossing down to the 2nd crossing. The water temperature was 56 Degrees F and the water clear with 24 inches of visibility. To find out more about the “Must Have Fly Fishing Patterns, click the link above.
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