{"id":3509,"date":"2025-09-16T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:05:57","slug":"lake-austin-fishing-report-august-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2025\/09\/16\/lake-austin-fishing-report-august-18-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Austin Fishing Report \u2013 August 18, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lake Austin is fishing fairly steady with <strong>clear 4\u20136 ft visibility<\/strong> and water temps in the low 80s. Bass are holding in <strong>12\u201320 ft on deeper grasslines<\/strong>, with the best action coming early in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Drop-shot finesse worms<\/strong> and <strong>Texas-rigged stick worms<\/strong> have been the most reliable producers. Bigger bass are scarce right now, but solid keepers up to 3 lbs are showing up when you hit the right stretches of grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Big Bass Score = 2; Numbers Score = 2; <strong>Total = 4<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/09-e1755802314904.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"167\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/09-e1755802314904-167x300.jpg\" alt=\"Angler holding a largemouth bass caught on Lake Austin in August 2025 during a guided trip with Bassquatch Fishing.\" class=\"wp-image-3451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/09-e1755802314904-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/09-e1755802314904.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A quality largemouth bass caught on Lake Austin by Bassquatch Fishing. Glide baits around shallow grasslines are producing the bigger bites this week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Austin is fishing fairly steady with clear 4\u20136 ft visibility and water temps in the low 80s. Bass are holding in 12\u201320 ft on deeper grasslines, with the best action coming early in the morning. Drop-shot finesse worms and Texas-rigged stick worms have been the most reliable producers. Bigger bass are scarce right now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[59,67,66,55,56,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-3509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lake-austin","7":"tag-bass","8":"tag-finesse-fishing","9":"tag-hydrilla-patterns","10":"tag-summer-fishing","11":"tag-swimbait","12":"tag-topwater","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}