Lake Travis Fishing Report - July 27, 2026
On the water July 27, 2026 · Lake Travis · by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs
The lake is now right at or just barely below full. Hasn't been this high since the flood of 2018. It was closed due to flooding for over a week and just opened so I got out there to look around for the trips this week.
First thing I looked at is how much of the new growth was in the water and there's lots of it. Those bass are already moving up into it but not the bigger ones just yet. I banged around some in it and caught some with a frog and a squarebill in shad color but mostly with a fluke stick in the Green Pumpkin / Purple and Green flake. They ate the worm up pretty good.
After fishing a few stretches with this pattern, I moved out to deeper water in 12-25 and caught a couple bigger fish around 3 pounds but the bigger ones wouldn't participate very well after sticking a bait in front of about 15-20 different big ones without a bite.
All in all a fun filled morning with lots of bass up to 3 pounds with a couple schooling bass mixed in. I'd give it a couple more days for the bass to really start eating up good and the topwater bite to pick up to where it normally is this time of year.
Now is the best time to book for the school starting up time and the fall and winter bite about to start. Texas Hawgs!
First thing I looked at is how much of the new growth was in the water and there's lots of it. Those bass are already moving up into it but not the bigger ones just yet. I banged around some in it and caught some with a frog and a squarebill in shad color but mostly with a fluke stick in the Green Pumpkin / Purple and Green flake. They ate the worm up pretty good.
After fishing a few stretches with this pattern, I moved out to deeper water in 12-25 and caught a couple bigger fish around 3 pounds but the bigger ones wouldn't participate very well after sticking a bait in front of about 15-20 different big ones without a bite.
All in all a fun filled morning with lots of bass up to 3 pounds with a couple schooling bass mixed in. I'd give it a couple more days for the bass to really start eating up good and the topwater bite to pick up to where it normally is this time of year.
Now is the best time to book for the school starting up time and the fall and winter bite about to start. Texas Hawgs!
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