What Should I Throw?
Tell me the lake and the conditions and I'll tell you what I'd tie on — the technique, the lure, colors, depth and retrieve, and why. It's Bryan's decision-making, drawn from the knowledge base.
Here's what I'd throw on Fayette County
On Fayette County, throw a Walking Topwater (Spook) — bone, shad.
Evidence: Assembled from 1 knowledge objects (lake, season, conditions, techniques, lures) in Bryan Cotter's Central Texas bass knowledge base.
Related: Walking Topwater technique · Walking Topwater (Spook) guide · Fayette County lake guide
High Answered by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs guide · Updated Jul 12, 2026
Technique
Colors: bone, shad.
Depth: 0-2 ft.
Retrieve: Rhythmic slack-line twitches to walk it side to side; speed up over schooling fish, pause on calm water.
From Bryan's logbook
Because Fayette is a power-plant lake, the bass spawn early here - before the other lakes in the region - so it produces well even when it's still cold out. It's the best average-quality lake I know of in Texas.
Also good: Frog Fishing, Grass / Hydrilla Fishing, Brush Pile Fishing.
Assembled from 1 knowledge objects.
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