{"id":4055,"date":"2026-08-24T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:39:13","slug":"lady-bird-lake-fishing-report-august-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2026\/08\/24\/lady-bird-lake-fishing-report-august-22-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bird Lake Fishing Report \u2013 Roaming Schools &amp; Deep Weedbed Pattern (August 22, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lady Bird Lake is offering clear water with 4\u20136 feet of visibility, water temperatures around 88 degrees, and a water level at normal pool. Targeting nomadic schools of bass relating to baitfish continues to produce well, with forward-facing sonar playing a key role in locating and staying with these fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wake baits and soft plastic jerkbaits have been effective around the roaming schools. Another productive pattern has been targeting isolated deeper weedbeds in 18\u201322 feet of water with drop-shot rigged finesse worms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Big Bass Score = 3; Numbers Score = 3;&nbsp;<strong>Total = 6<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lady-bird-lake-first-bass-5-pound-08-22-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lady-bird-lake-first-bass-5-pound-08-22-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Client holding his first bass ever, a largemouth over 5 pounds caught from deep grass on Lady Bird Lake\" class=\"wp-image-4053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lady-bird-lake-first-bass-5-pound-08-22-2026.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lady-bird-lake-first-bass-5-pound-08-22-2026-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lady-bird-lake-first-bass-5-pound-08-22-2026-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Not a bad way to catch your first fish ever! This client started with a Lady Bird Lake largemouth weighing over 5 pounds, caught on a drop-shot rigged finesse worm from an isolated patch of deep submerged vegetation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Bird Lake is offering clear water with 4\u20136 feet of visibility, water temperatures around 88 degrees, and a water level at normal pool. Targeting nomadic schools of bass relating to baitfish continues to produce well, with forward-facing sonar playing a key role in locating and staying with these fish. Wake baits and soft plastic [&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":[79],"tags":[166,238,222,250,142,51,177,178,176,204,232,161,201,249],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-lady-bird-lake","tag-austin-texas-fishing","tag-baitfish-pattern-bass-fishing","tag-deep-water-bass-fishing","tag-deep-weedbed-bass-fishing","tag-drop-shot-fishing-bass","tag-forward-facing-sonar","tag-lady-bird-lake","tag-lady-bird-lake-bass-fishing","tag-lady-bird-lake-fishing-report","tag-schooling-bass-fishing","tag-soft-plastic-jerkbait-fishing","tag-submerged-vegetation-bass-fishing","tag-summer-bass-fishing","tag-wake-bait-fishing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","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=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}