Canyon
Lake Fishing Guides
Report
Canyon Lake for the week of March 9, 2010
Please Note: The following
boat ramps are currently closed: #3 Comal Park East, #4 Comal Park
West, #10 Cranes Mill Park and #18 Canyon Park Campground. The
courtesy boat dock at ramp #21 is closed. Fishing piers at Potter's
Creek and Cranes Mill are open. Cranes Mill Park is closed
for renovations. For further updates, please call the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers Canyon Lake office at 830-964-3342. Please
boat safely and always remember to wear your life jacket!
Water Clarity: Stained Water
Temp: 52 Current Level: 909.33
(Conservation Pool: 909.0 ft. msl)
Largemouth Bass: Fair to
4 lbs. early on crawfish ½ oz. Pour Man’s football
jigs with watermelon red 4” Berkley chigger craw trailers
over deep structures in 20-30 feet and later on whacky rigged watermelon
cream 5” Yamamoto senkos on main lake and secondary
points in 5-20 feet.
Smallmouth Bass: Fair
to 3 lbs. on pumpkinseed ¼ oz. Berkley Ike's
finesse jigs with Calif 420 Reaction Innovations smallie beaver
trailers, trophy hunter Grande Bass baby rattlesnakes and watermelon
red River2Sea Stand'n Yabbie 50 over rock piles and along bluffs
in 12-20 feet.
White
Bass: Excellent
on chartreuse or black shad 2” Berkley power minnows, large
live minnows and live crickets upriver or in back of major coves
in 2-8 feet.
Crappie: Fair on white crappie
jigs tipped with live minnows around brush piles and submerged
trees off main lake points and upriver in 4-6 feet.
Striped Bass: Fair
trolling bleeding tiger Rapala deep tail dancers or ghost bass
Strike Pro flex phantoms, vertically jigging chartreuse/silver
1-1/2 oz. Terminator pirk minnows or perch Bagley jigging minnows on
main lake points and drifting hybrid bluegill or shad around
the dam at night in 15-20 feet.
Perch: Good on live
crickets.
Channel Catfish: Fair
on Lewis King’s punch bait or Big Marv's cheese bait
in 6-20 feet.
Blue and Yellow Catfish: Fair
on trotlines and juglines baited with hybrid bluegill
or shad gizzard in 10-30 feet.
To
book your fishing guide trip with a locally owned fishing guide
referral service, please call us 210-213-2534. For all your bait
and tackle needs, stop by Fisherman’s Corner at 21910 FM
306 Canyon Lake, TX 78133 or shop with us on-line at www.texasbasstackle.com.
