Lake LBJ 03/09/2024

Had a great day on the lake, despite being chilly and windy for the Fishers of Men tournament. We took 3rd place with just over 17 pounds. We worked cuts and creeks with worms, chatterbaits, wakebaits and a frog. Most fish were in the backs of places but some were out in the mouths as well. A random grass patch would hold fish as well. Book today for your chance at a big one as bass are in the shallows spawning or close to it on most lakes now.

Lake Bastrop 08/30/21

Lake Bastrop was a little on the tougher side but everyone still caught plenty of bass. We had a 10 boat trip out there and it started at 1pm. There was a little bit of schooling activity and you had to get on it really fast if you wanted to catch them while up in the water column. Small straight tail swimbaits worked good using really light weighted hooks either belly-weighted or like a tiny ned jig head. Colors working were bright white to any shad colors. You could also catch a few using tiny topwater lures like a tiny torpedo or spook jr in the clear color. If you dropped a small spoon down, you can pick up quite a few off the bottom and even latch on to a big flathead or carp as several of those were caught on some boats. All in all, the spoon outfished any other bait on all the boats. Even when hot and a little tough, we'll still catch fish and have a great time.

Lake Travis 8/14/21

Hit up Lake Travis today and the fishing was fun. Usually the schooling bass are very active, but in the last few weeks they have slowed way down. It's best to run to those same areas and work them over with soft plastics to catch those bass hanging around but foraging on bluegill and sunfish along the ledges. When the schoolies pop up, be sure to have a pole ready with a small swimbait to chunk at them. After working these areas for the first hour or 2 of the morning, move to deep ledges on main lake to get your bites. There have been some bigger fish in the 25-50 foot range but if you are short on patience, try working the 12-20 foot range with a jig, shaky head or texas rigged worm such as a trick worm or straight worm in watermelon or green pumpkin colors. A small craw worm in watermelon red works wonders in these areas as well. Even a dropshot will work good. We ended the day with a couple dozen with a few nice chunks mixed in and a lot of guadalupe bass. Book your trip today for now or for the upcoming fall, winter or next spring. Texas Hawgs!

Lake Travis, Choke Canyon and Falcon

Lake Travis is fishing good in the mornings with the topwater bite getting better and better. We are finding some big schools where you can catch 10-30 on walking style baits and small swimbaits. A shallow or medium diving crankbait will get you some nice ones as well as a wakebait. If you are looking for a big adventure, we are crushing bass on Choke Canyon right now. Numbers are very good and you might catch 50-80 bass a day or more. Some very nice larger ones are showing up as well. Lake Falcon is also producing some nice bass as well. Two days minimum to book there and I have a place for you to stay too. Holler when you are ready to go catch some Texas Hawgs!

Lake Buchanan 12/4/20

Went to Lake Buchanan and met some clients later in the day to get on some of those Buchanan fatties. We had great luck starting off in one of the creeks working a little offshore using soft plastics. You had to really work your bait slow and some of the bites were so soft you really couldn't even feel them. Once you started to reel in though, the line would either be moving to the side or continue under the boat. Big hooksets were the key to getting those fish in the boat. Spending half the trip in the creeks, it was time to move over to some rock piles. After hitting a few and catching a couple fish on each, I hit a pretty big one and it was lights out. My clients had lots of doubles and catching quite a few on almost every cast for a while. Good times finishing off the day like this.

After dropping off my clients, I decided to go back out for a bit and shoot some drone footage. I hit another rock pile and started flying the area. After shooting around the area, I hovered the drone over me to catch some fishing action and I proceeded to catch some. The wind had disappeared at this time so the shots came out awesome. I posted up some pics so if you aren't following Texas Hawgs, follow me over on Facebook and Instagram. Actually, I'm listed as bryan.cotter on Instagram. See you there!

Lake Travis 1/12/2020

Hit midlake on Lake Travis today with some clients. It was 30 degrees when I launched. Burr chilly! We started out pretty quick when one of my clients, who has never fished a day in his life, hooked up with one on his very first cast. Now that's how a good addiction should start. lol It was not a big one but about 2 pounds which is pretty decent for Travis. It wasn't long before he topped it though with one around 3 pounds. My other client was a long time regular that has caught a lot of fish and some very nice ones from my boat. He was catching them pretty consistent on a shaky head worm after initailly starting out with a wake bait. He did catch a very nice fat guadalupe on that wake bait though. We ended the half day with around 2 dozen. Good times!

Lake Travis 1/9/2020

Hit Lake Travis on a scouting trip today. Bite was a little off in the morning but as the day progressed, so did the bite. Most fish were in 15-25 with a few shallower. The biggest ones were the deeper ones today. I caught them on a number of baits ranging from a jig, texas rigged worm and crankbaits, both deep and shallow. The biggest ones came from dead-sticking a power worm. I would leave it sit for 15-20 seconds and then it would just take off. Most of the bites came on the bottom of a ledge or the top of the ledge if it was deeper. I also got a lot of bites from a squarebill in shad colors. The biggest one today was just under 6 pounds. Time to book your trip!

Lake Decker 4/4/19

Headed out on Lake Decker with some clients this morning. Had a pretty good day throwing 4" senkos inside a grass line around bedding bass. Most of the fish were good solid chunks in the 2-3 pound range, mostly all males. Seems most of the bigger females have finished spawning. One of the better areas, a few feet deeper, we caught a few more solid fish in the 2.5-4 pound range. Some of those were females that were about halfway spawned out except for 2 that were pretty fat. The biggest fish in the area came off right at the boat. She looked to be around 6 pounds. All the lakes seem to be about 3-4 weeks behind schedule this year with the coldest water temps I can remember in recent history. We ended up the day with around 20 bass with the 2 biggest ones at 5 pounds. Good times on the water!

Lake Travis 11/24/18

Took some clients out on Lake Travis late morning. Very nice day to be out and after the full moon, the bite should have been on midday. It was still a little off but we caught fish. Most came off deeper ledges in 12-25 foot of water throwing Texas rigged soft plastics and jigs. The 2 biggest bass, a 3 pounder and a 6 pounder came on the jig around 9-12 FOW. Finding rocks is very important right now with the water temperatures coming down. Working your baits really slowly always helps as well in the colder weather.

Late Fall and Winter is usually your best bet at a big bass because there is much less pressure on the fish. It's a great time to get out, just dress accordingly. It's also a great time to plan for the spring time. Book now to get your dates. Thanks...

Lake Decker 4/23/18

Lake Decker has been pretty good lately and the latest trip out there did not disappoint. We caught 3 dozen with the biggest weighing in at 8.13 pounds! Great fish to top off the day. Most days we have been catching at least one over 5 pounds and sometimes multiple bass over 5-6 pounds. Biggest key is after you get a bite, make sure to set the hook really good. We've had several giant bass come off when they jump and spit the hook. There are lots of big quality bass on this lake and anytime of the year is a good time to try this lake.

Lake Travis Tuesday 11/7/2017

Fishing was a lot of fun today. I took my good friend Mike out today to show him the new boat and we got into some good action. I threw a Pop-R around the edge of the deep ledges and Mike threw a shaky head with a condensed version of a finesse worm. Most of the fish came on the top water but the biggest one came on the shaky head. She was real skinny and would have probably pushed 4 pounds if healthy. Most of the other keepers were nice chunks in the 2.5 pound range. All the others were under. All in all, we had about 2 dozen bass with 8-9 keepers. We ended the day when a cold front started blowing in around 1:20pm. Good times as always when on the water.

Halloween is next week and the fishing is good...

I have been taking clients out to Lake Decker and Lake Travis mainly recently. Lake Decker always has a chance at a big bass and lately we've been catching some decent ones on every trip. Most are in the 2-4 pound class and we are catching them in schools, along grass lines and on frogs coming through the reeds. We really need a few big cold fronts to get these fish feeding better there.

That's why I'm taking more and more clients to Lake Travis. We are catching numbers out there and even some decent ones. We are catching most numbers on top waters which is a lot of fun. A shaky head jig and finesse skirted jigs are catching some good fish as well. There's a few ledges I've been fishing out there that are loaded up with nice fish up to 5 pounds and sometimes they could be on absolute fire. You'll hook one and a whole wolfpack will follow it to the boat trying to eat the bait out of their mouth and some of those may be 4-5 pounds. Lots of fun.

Another lake that is fishing well is Lake Bastrop. We are catching 20-50 fish a day working the grass with wakebaits, flukes and even some on spinnerbaits. A shaky head and jig will work further out from the grass as well. Good times...

Lake LBJ - 1st BASS Regional tournament 3/5

Started the day off in a spawning area that had some really good fish around it in practice. Took me a while to get my first fish on as I was working the area over with a frog. It was a nice chunk. I worked the area over really well for the first hour and a half before I started working my way out. I threw my frog over a few lily pads I saw on a small flat and boom, 5 pounder. Nice. I only caught one other one in there for 3 fish to start the day. I then went to an area that was full of grass last year and now it's just mush. I worked a trig plastic around the nasty stuff and was able to catch 3 more keepers out of it with what would be my biggest bass of the day at 5.5 lbs. Looking good right now. I spent the rest of the day looking for beds and catching some off of them to cull up to 17.81 lbs for 2nd place. I could not find any real big ones on beds, only males. I caught a total of 15 and culled 7 times. My main 2 baits were a Ribbit frog and a Zoom fluke stick. Some of the bedding bass were caught on Zoom 6" lizards. Good day on the water.

Lake Travis 11/15

Took some clients out to Lake Travis for a morning trip. The 16 year old had never been fishing before in his life so I knew this trip would be special to him. We started right off on a good stretch of water where we caught quite a few. He had some decent ones on but hadn't learned the art of setting a hook yet so I worked with him until I thought he was ready to set a hook. Not too long after that, he felt a bite and set the hook and caught his first largemouth bass. He really enjoyed it and after we took a picture, he was back at it, catching several more throughout the 4-5 hours we were out there. His Godfather caught several as well catching the biggest ones of the day. At one point while we were near the back of some docks, I flipped a jig right on the edge of one and connected with a large guadalupe bass. It was a very nice specimen close to 2 lbs and nice and fat. It was a fun day on the water and someone caught their first fish ever. Good times.

This is a great time to be on the water after a few cold fronts and the water temperature coming down. The fish are on the chew. It's a great time to go and try to get that fish of a lifetime too as the big fish are just starting to get fat with eggs and have a large appetite for the winter. Book now...and for the Spring too.

Lake Bastrop 9/18

Hit Bastrop for a full day today and the fishing was outstanding. On our first spot we threw shaky heads and found them schooling up and in a few hours, we landed 36 fish. It was quite a lot really quick. We then headed back to the launch ramp to pick up my client's friend. We went back close to where we started but it had a few people around there so we stayed out of it and worked a big point out from it. They got to schooling up again and when it was all said and done, we had caught another 81! Wow. What a day of fishing to land 117 bass in less than 8 hours of fishing. Great day on the water.

Lake Bastrop 7/7

Lake Bastrop was on fire yet again today. In 4 hours of fishing, we caught 54 up to 4 lbs. We used mainly shaky heads with trick worms but also threw a spinner bait and a jig. Top waters are working as well around the grass flats in the holes and a deep crank off the right ledge will catch some good ones too. If you'd like to get into some of this action, book your trip now.

Lake Travis 4/8

I took a 90 year old World War II vet out today on Lake Travis and we had a blast. He wanted to catch some white bass for a fish fry and I've been on them pretty good. We hit the first area with no success on whites but caught several largemouth and guadalupe bass. Since he was after whites though, I quickly moved to where some were moving up the previous day. When we got in there, it was every cast. There were 4 of us on the boat and we had several quadruple hookups. What a blast. At one point, he told me he was in 7th heaven. That made my day as well. What an honor it was to give back to someone from one of the greatest eras of our time. We caught 38 with another mixed bag and they took home plenty of whites to eat. He caught a nice largemouth to boot. Great time with a veteran.

Lake Travis 3/31

Took some clients out on Lake Travis and it was the right call. We started out on a ledge in 8-20 feet of water. We caught a few there right away when I noticed a point in the back of the cove we were in start blowing up with fish. We just had to move back there and we started catching white bass on every cast, sometimes tripling up. It was a lot of fun and we also caught largemouth and guadalupe bass mixed in and even a striped bass. This went on for quite some time. After this slowed down and we moved around and fished the area for a while longer, I decided to take these guys to some other areas.

We headed up the lake to an old favorite cove and started catching some more largemouth. As we were moving around in there, I noticed a large fish swimming along and tossed my shaky head over at it. She hammered the bait and took off. After a long battle, I finally got her in the boat and it was a lake record long nosed gar weighing in at 20.08 lbs. What a fight. After getting all the measurements, etc we headed on to one more cove before the end of the trip. We caught some largemouth here as well and 1 other fish I haven't seen in a while, a black crappie. She was up shallow with some other bass and after I caught her, I knew she could have been a lake record as well but when I was looking at her, she kicked right out of my hand and into the water. Oh well. lol

After all said and done, we caught over 80 fish with a mix of 6 different varieties. Good times. For some of this action, book today and let's go catch 'em.

Fayette 3/30

Headed out to Fayette for some power plant action. Hit some normal areas only to have to scrape to find a few. Headed over to the last area they seem to spawn in every year off a tree line and bingo, found them loaded up. Caught a bunch in this area right outside of where the tilapia were spawning using mainly trick worms. We caught a few dozen working the worms slowly until the line jumped or just took off. Fun day on the water as always on Fayette County. Good times.

Decker 3/1

Hit up Decker for a whole day, dawn to dusk. We caught them really good again on squarebills and some on traps and worms. We worked just off some of the deeper reeds and they were holding some really nice bass. Every one of the fish we caught were all in the 3-5 lb range which makes for some really fun fishing. We caught over 3 dozen on the trip and the best 5 were over 20 lbs once again. Good times.