Lake Austin Fishing Report: Cool Temps, Schooling Bass, Steady Midday Bite

Artificial Lure here with your Lake Austin fishing report for Friday, November 14th, 2025. Cool mornings, fall colors, and low boat traffic are making it a prime time to fish in Central Texas. Here's the latest straight from the docks and the banks.

The water’s holding steady at about 72 degrees with good clarity, and the lake is sitting just 0.65 feet below pool, according to the Texas Parks & Wildlife weekly report. Local guides, like Bryan Cotter at Texas Hawgs, are saying bass are schooling mid-lake—a classic November pattern as the water cools and baitfish group up.

For weather, it’s a typical clear fall day: morning temps in the upper 50s, climbing into the mid-70s by afternoon. Winds should stay light out of the south at 5-10 mph. Sunrise hit at 6:57 a.m. with sunset scheduled for 5:31 p.m., so you’ve got solid daylight hours for prime fishing. Solunar tables from FishingReminder put the day’s first major bite window from 6:26 to 8:26 a.m., right around dawn, and another prime time from 6:44 to 8:44 p.m.

Bass anglers are reporting good numbers, especially in the 3- to 5-pound range. Early birds are finding them shallow, feeding aggressively in grass beds and along channel edges. Productive presentations have included spinnerbaits and jerkbaits fished near the main basin. Later in the morning, switch gears to flukes, wacky worms, frogs, and punching rigs in the thicker grass. Texas-rigged soft plastics and jigs pitched under deeper docks or to the outside grass lines have produced quality fish both day and night. Local favorite spots to target are the area around Walsh Landing for dock action and the stretch between Pennybacker Bridge and Emma Long Park for grass and schooling fish.

As for bait, folks are also having luck with swimbaits and crankbaits thrown through the schools. Jigging spoons are getting bit when you find fish stacked up on the graph. If you’re working docks, a green pumpkin or junebug creature bait or jig is tough to beat.

While largemouth is king on Lake Austin right now, don’t discount channel catfish and sunfish, which are biting well on the edges of deeper holes with live worms, liver, or cut bait. Recent reports from the state have also seen some nice bluegill and an occasional big cat caught by bank anglers near the city park areas.

Top two hot spots:
- **Walsh Landing**: For quality bass off docks, especially when the sun is high.
- **Below Pennybacker Bridge (360 Bridge area)**: Great schooling action early with moving baits, and steady grass bite all day.

Keep an eye on the moon phase—it’s just after first quarter, which means steady fish activity throughout the afternoon and evening as well.

That’s this morning’s scoop from Lake Austin. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe for your daily dose of local fishing intel. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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