Lake Austin Fishing Report: Early Topwater Bite, Deeper Plastics as Day Heats Up

Howdy folks, this is Artificial Lure with your Lake Austin fishing report for Friday, June 20, 2025.

First, let’s take a look at the conditions out there this morning. According to ATX Fishing’s latest updates, the water on Lake Austin is stained but clear enough for good fishing, sitting right around 81 degrees and a touch under pool at 0.63 feet below full. Sunrise hit at 6:28 a.m., and you can expect sunset around 8:36 p.m., giving you a comfortable window for both morning and evening bites. The weather’s on our side—warm, humid, with light winds and stable conditions, classic early summer in Central Texas.

On the fish front, Lake Austin continues to produce strong numbers, especially for Largemouth Bass. Anglers are reporting a good shallow bite early, so if you can get on the water around first light, you’ll find schools of bass busting on small shad in the creek mouths and along main-lake grass lines. Small shad-profile baits fished high in the column have been the ticket, as ATX Fishing reports. Once the sun gets up, the bite shifts deeper, and big worms fished around brush piles are starting to heat up for those post-spawn bass looking to put on some summer weight.

Captain Experiences reports groups getting on nice bass with topwater early, then switching to swimbaits and trick worms in shaded coves and around docks as the day heats up. Expect a few quality fish mixed in—Lake Austin has produced some lunkers on swimbaits in years past, and June’s a sleeper month for a trophy if you’re patient and persistent.

Besides bass, there’s a fair mix of sunfish and the occasional blue or channel cat. Bluegill and redear sunfish are hitting worms and small crappie jigs, especially near boat docks and along rocky outcroppings. For those chasing cats, cut shad and chicken liver on the bottom are solid producers near creek inflows after sundown.

Your best bets for lures today: early, it’s all about topwater—try a bone-colored Spook or Pop-R, or a buzzbait for explosive action. As light comes up, switch to small swimbaits, shaky-head worms (watermelon red or green pumpkin), or Texas-rigged big worms out deeper. For sunfish, keep it simple with worms or small beetle spins.

Hot spots this week include the Pennybacker Bridge stretch—there’s been early morning schooling action here—and the cove around Emma Long Park, which is holding fish near the hydrilla edges and submerged timber. If you’re after numbers, creek mouths up-river are stacked with bass chasing shad.

That’s the word from Lake Austin today—get out early for the topwater bite, stay hydrated, and don’t forget those big plastics for later. Thanks for tuning in, and make sure to subscribe for more local reports. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Howdy folks, this is artificial lure with your Lake Austin
Fishing report for Friday, June twentieth, twenty twenty five. First,
let's take a look at the conditions out there this morning.
According to ATX Fishing's latest updates, the water on Lake
Austin is stained but clear enough for good fishing, sitting
right around eighty one degrees and a touch under pool

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at point six three feet below. Full. Sunrise hit at
six twenty eight am, and you can expect sunset around
eight thirty six pm, giving you a comfortable window for
both morning and evening bites. The weather's on our side, warm, humid,
with light winds, and stable conditions classic early summer in
Central Texas. On the fish front, Lake Austin continues to

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produce strong numbers, especially for largemouth bass. Anglers are reporting
a good shallow bite early, so if you can get
on the water around first light, you'll find schools of
bass busting on small shad in the creek mouths and
along main lake grass lines. Small shadd profile baits fished
high in the column have been the ticket, as at

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X Fishing reports. Once the sun gets up, the bite
shifts deeper, and big worms fished around brush piles are
starting to heat up. For those post spawned bass looking
to put on some summer weight. Captain Experiences reports groups
getting on nice bass with top water early, then switching
to swim baits and trickworms in shaded coves and around

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docks as the day heats up. Expect a few quality
fish mixed in Lake Austin has produced some lunkers on
swim baits in years past, and June's a sleeper month
for a trophy if you're patient and persistent. Besides bass,
there's a fair mix of sunfish and the occasional blue
or channel cat, bluegill, and ree deer. Sunfish are hitting

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worms and small crappy jigs, especially near boat docks and
along rocky outcroppings for those chasing cats. Cut shad and
chicken liver on the bottom are solid producers near creek inflows.
After sundown your best bets for lures today. Early it's
all about topwater. Try a bone colored spook or pop
aar or a buzz bait for explosive action. As light

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comes up, switch to small swim baits, shaky headworms, watermelon,
red or green pumpkin, or Texas. Rig big worms out
deeper for sunfish. Keep it simple with worms or small
beetle spins. Hot spots this week include the Pennybacker Bridge stretch.
There's been early morning schooling action here and the cove
around Emma Long Park which is holding fish near the

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hydrilla edges and submerged timber. If you're after numbers. Creek
mouths upriver are stacked with bass chasing shad. That's the
word from Lake Austin today. Get out early for the
top water bite, stay hydrated, and don't forget those big
plastics for later. Thanks for tuning in and make sure
to subscribe for more local reports. This has been a

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quiet please production. For more check out Quiet please dot
AI and that is it for today. Hit the subscribe
button and never miss out. Keep those tips up and
lines wet. This has been a quite pleased production with
the help of AI. Thanks for listening.