{"id":4111,"date":"2026-10-22T21:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:30:34","slug":"inks-lake-fishing-report-october-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2026\/10\/22\/inks-lake-fishing-report-october-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Inks Lake Fishing Report \u2013 Fall Bass Holding Around Shallow Cover (October 20, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inks Lake is offering clear water with 4\u20136 feet of visibility, water temperatures around 72 degrees, and a water level approximately 1 foot below full pool. The best fishing has been around shallow cover in less than 5 feet of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Urchin style baits and drop-shot rigged finesse worms have been the most productive presentations, with a variety of shallow cover holding bass. Overall, the fishing has been fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Big Bass Score = 3; Numbers Score = 2; <strong>Total = 5<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/inks-lake-father-son-bass-fishing-10-20-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/inks-lake-father-son-bass-fishing-10-20-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Father and son holding two largemouth bass caught while fishing shallow cover on Inks Lake in Central Texas\" class=\"wp-image-4106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/inks-lake-father-son-bass-fishing-10-20-2026.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/inks-lake-father-son-bass-fishing-10-20-2026-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/inks-lake-father-son-bass-fishing-10-20-2026-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A father-son fishing trip on Inks Lake produced these two quality largemouth bass using urchin style baits and drop-shot rigged finesse worms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inks Lake is offering clear water with 4\u20136 feet of visibility, water temperatures around 72 degrees, and a water level approximately 1 foot below full pool. The best fishing has been around shallow cover in less than 5 feet of water. Urchin style baits and drop-shot rigged finesse worms have been the most productive presentations, [&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":[47],"tags":[142,255,274,159,144,143,147,263,253,164,240],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-inks-lake","tag-drop-shot-fishing-bass","tag-fall-bass-fishing","tag-finesse-bass-fishing","tag-highland-lakes-fishing","tag-inks-lake","tag-inks-lake-bass-fishing","tag-inks-lake-fishing-report","tag-october-bass-fishing","tag-shallow-cover-bass-fishing","tag-shallow-water-bass-fishing","tag-urchin-style-bait","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","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=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}