{"id":3721,"date":"2025-12-31T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:33:29","slug":"lake-austin-fishing-report-december-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2025\/12\/31\/lake-austin-fishing-report-december-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Austin Fishing Report \u2013 December 22, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>12\/22\/2025 &#8211; Lake Austin is sitting at a normal level with clear water and 4\u20136 ft visibility. Water temperatures are around 61\u00b0, and typical winter patterns are starting to take shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most consistent bite has come from fishing <strong>drop-shot rigged finesse worms<\/strong> along the <strong>deeper, outside edge of submerged vegetation in 16+ feet of water<\/strong>. There\u2019s some sifting through smaller fish involved, but there are definitely some quality bass to be caught if you stay patient and work the right areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Big Bass Score = 3; Numbers Score = 2; <strong>Total = 5<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lake-austin-bassquatch-dec-22-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lake-austin-bassquatch-dec-22-2025-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Young angler holding a largemouth bass caught on Lake Austin in December 2025 on a drop-shot finesse worm around submerged vegetation.\" class=\"wp-image-3716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lake-austin-bassquatch-dec-22-2025-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lake-austin-bassquatch-dec-22-2025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lake-austin-bassquatch-dec-22-2025-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lake-austin-bassquatch-dec-22-2025.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Young client with a Lake Austin bassquatch caught on a drop-shot finesse worm around submerged vegetation\u2014personal best smashed within the first few minutes of the trip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/22\/2025 &#8211; Lake Austin is sitting at a normal level with clear water and 4\u20136 ft visibility. Water temperatures are around 61\u00b0, and typical winter patterns are starting to take shape. The most consistent bite has come from fishing drop-shot rigged finesse worms along the deeper, outside edge of submerged vegetation in 16+ feet of [&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":[59,86,111,39,108,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-3721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lake-austin","7":"tag-bass","8":"tag-clear-water","9":"tag-deep-grass","10":"tag-drop-shot","11":"tag-finesse-worms","12":"tag-winter-fishing","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","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=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}