What a morning of bass fishing on Lake Austin. My clients and I got after them early and the bite never really let up - we boated right around four dozen largemouth bass, with the better fish pushing up to 3 pounds. When the catching is that steady, everybody in the boat stays busy, and that's exactly the kind of morning this lake can produce when you're on the right stuff.
Tripled up - everybody with a Lake Austin largemouth.
The pattern was all about soft plastics. We caught them on creature baits, worms and a small swimbait, but the creature bait was the clear MVP of the day. Color mattered more than usual too: watermelon purple flake, watermelon magic, green pumpkin magic and green pumpkin purple-and-green flake all got bit, while brighter stuff went ignored. The common thread was those darker greens - if it looked like something subtle crawling along the bottom, a Lake Austin bass wanted to eat it.
One of four dozen that ate the dark-green plastics.
This one deserved a point.
That's typical of this lake in late summer. Lake Austin's clear, grass-filled water grows bass that get a good look at everything you throw, so natural greens that match the vegetation almost always outfish the loud colors. Work a creature bait slow around the grass edges and docks right now and you're going to get bites.
Doubled up - when the bite is on, it is ON.
The boys kept the net busy all morning - Dad approves.
September is one of my favorite stretches on Lake Austin - the crowds thin out, the mornings cool off, and the bass feed up ahead of fall. If a 40-fish morning ten minutes from downtown Austin sounds like your kind of day, give me a shout and let's get you on the water.
Dad got in on it too - a quality Lake Austin largemouth.