{"id":3579,"date":"2025-10-21T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:08:28","slug":"lake-austin-fishing-report-october-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2025\/10\/21\/lake-austin-fishing-report-october-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Austin Fishing Report \u2013 October 12, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lake Austin is sitting at a normal level with clear water in the 4\u20136 ft visibility range and temperatures in the mid to upper 70s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve been catching bass both in open water and around vegetation. Three-inch paddle tail swimbaits like the Bass Pro Shops Speed Shad have been producing when fished over submerged grass, and mid-strolling minnow-style plastics have worked well for targeting suspended bass with forward-facing sonar. For a shallow bite, weightless soft plastic stick worms around inside grasslines have been consistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Big Bass Score = 2; Numbers Score = 1; <strong>Total = 3<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lake-austin-bass-fishing-october-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lake-austin-bass-fishing-october-2025-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Angler holding a largemouth bass caught at Lake Austin in October 2025 using a Bass Pro Shops Speed Shad paddle-tail swimbait over submerged vegetation in clear water conditions.\" class=\"wp-image-3576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lake-austin-bass-fishing-october-2025-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lake-austin-bass-fishing-october-2025.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Client with a solid largemouth from Lake Austin, caught on a Bass Pro Shops Speed Shad swimbait fished over submerged vegetation during a bright fall day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Austin is sitting at a normal level with clear water in the 4\u20136 ft visibility range and temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. We\u2019ve been catching bass both in open water and around vegetation. Three-inch paddle tail swimbaits like the Bass Pro Shops Speed Shad have been producing when fished over submerged grass, [&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":[59,86,39,37,63,53,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-3579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lake-austin","7":"tag-bass","8":"tag-clear-water","9":"tag-drop-shot","10":"tag-fall-fishing","11":"tag-grass-patterns","12":"tag-mid-strolling","13":"tag-paddle-tail-swimbait","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","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=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}