Lake Austin Fishing Report - Finicky Largemouth, Steady Bite, and Solunar Timing Tips

Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Lake Austin fishing report.

We’re sitting on a light north breeze and cool, stable weather this morning, with clear skies and barometric pressure running a touch high. That’s got the lake pretty calm and the boat wakes doing more to stir things than the wind. Expect it to warm into a mild afternoon with decent visibility and relatively clear water for this lake.

Sunrise is right around 7:30 a.m. and sunset about 5:35 p.m., so your prime low‑light windows are short but sweet. Solunar tables for Central Texas show the better feeding pushes lining up mid‑morning and again late afternoon into dusk, so plan to be on your best stretches then.

Recent chatter from local shops and Austin-area forums has Lake Austin fishing “fair but finicky.” Largemouth remain the main draw, with a mix of 1–3 pounders and an occasional 5–7 getting yanked out from docks and bluff banks. A few crappie and blue catfish are coming from deeper holes, but bass are still the headliners. No monster-sharelunker tales this week, just steady, workmanlike fishing.

Bass activity has been best:
- First hour after sunrise on moving baits.
- Midday along shade lines and deeper grass.
- Last hour of light on slow plastics.

For lures, locals have been leaning on:
- **Shad‑pattern jerkbaits** and small swimbaits over 8–15 feet near grass and ledges.
- **Green pumpkin or watermelon red Senkos and creature baits**, Texas‑rigged or light Carolina‑rigged, dragged painfully slow along rocky breaks.
- **1/4–3/8 oz finesse jigs** in green pumpkin/brown with a small chunk trailer pitched tight to docks and laydowns.

If you’re soaking bait:
- Live **shad** or small **bluegill** around bridge pilings and deeper bends for bigger bass and blue cats.
- **Nightcrawlers** or cut shad on the bottom for channel cats along riprap and the outside of bends.

A couple of local hot spots to circle:
- **Under and just above the 360 bridge**: work the pilings and adjacent rock with jerkbaits early, then a jig or shaky head as the sun gets up.
- **The stretch around Emma Long (City Park)**: grass edges, secondary points, and dock lines have been quietly giving up quality fish on slow plastics and small swimbaits.

Boat traffic picks up late morning, so if you want clean water and less pressure, get out early or slide into the evening bite and tuck into coves off the main river.

That’s your Lake Austin rundown from Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a report.

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