WayPoint Guide Service, Belton Lake fishing Report

Belton Lake Fishing Report 7/19/2011

2011-07-19T19:40:00.000-07:00

Belton Lake is near 6 foot low and dropping 2 inches a day. If we do not get rain soon the lake will reveal some of the great fishing locations you will be able to look at. The bass fishing has been slow, most fish are being caught shallow on spinners, flipping baits, and small crank baits. Early you can get a top water bite but, this is spotty at best. The White Bass are starting to school up for short periods of time. The Hybrids can be found around the White Bass, just a little deeper. White Bass and Hybrid fishing is fair to good, look in 23 to 50 foot and near drops. If you like night fishing I am hearing good reports on Smallmouth Bass on Black spinners right on the bank shallow, main lake area.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 6/27/2011

2011-06-27T10:52:00.000-07:00

Belton Lake is a little over 4 foot low and dropping about 1 inch a day. Water temp is in the low 80's. Temple Lake Park flats have been a great place to find White bass and Hybrid's. Jigging spoons in white or chrome are working good. Early and late there has been some spotty top water action. Bass fishing is getting tuff, some early top water actions in the creeks, then it is time to concentrate on points 15 to 30 foot deep. I prefer a C-rig for these fish but, T-rig, shaky head jigs and heavy football jigs will also work. Good luck and remember to stay hydrated in the heat.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 6/6/2011

2011-06-06T14:20:00.000-07:00

Belton Lake is four foot low, water temperature 79 and water clear to stained up river. Hybrid and White Bass are good, some top water action on Temple lake Park early and late, Hybrids are in 35 to 55 foot deep near the bottom and good on live shad or perch. Spoon fishing will also produce good numbers of whites and Hybrids. Black bass fishing if fair, up river fish can be caught on white/chart spinner baits, square bill cranks and flipping. Main lake early there are some good top water action and cloudy days. Later fish deep 15 to 35 foot deep with C-Rigs or shakey head trick worms.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 5/23/2011

2011-05-23T03:58:00.000-07:00

Belton Lake fishing is good to very good on Black Bass and Hybrid/White Bass. The bass have began to transition to their deep summer locations. The lake is still low, 4 foot and slowly falling. The construction on the dam is not complete at this time and the Corp is not letting out any water. The lack of current is preventing the bass from setting up on the deep structure. They are suspending off the structure. Some good fish are still being caught on the structure, just not as many as years past. The Hybrid Striped Bass are good. TSA held it's tournament last week and it took 16.5 pounds on two fish to win. Big fish was 8.5 and they came on live shad off the sand flats. The main lake flats, Temple Lake Park is seeing a lot of Hybrids and Whites moving across with the shad. Slab spoons and live bait (shad or perch) will catch the Hybrid Striped Bass. Belton has a great population of small (10 to 16 inch) Hybrid Striped Bass so be careful if you are keeping White Bass to not confuse these fish. Look on the tooth patch on every fish you keep and if it has a white split line on the tooth patch it is a Hybrid, put it back in the lake.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 3/23/2011

2011-03-23T13:19:00.001-07:00

Belton Lake is still 3 foot low due to dam construction. Surface water temp on the main lake around 59 and up to 68 in the creeks. The large female Bass have began to move up and can be caught on secondary points in the creeks. I have seen just a few beds so far but feel they will move up very soon. My guide trip produced 1 five pound bass on a weightless Sinko Watermelon Red 5", 1 4.5 Bass on a C-rig watermelon red Fluke in 4 foot on a point, 1 four pound bass on a point on the same C-rig on a point and a few 3 and 2 pound bass on the above as well as T-rigged Baby Brush Hogs in watermelon red. I would start in the back of the creeks and work out at this time of the year with any of the above baits until you start catching them. The Hybrids and White Bass have been very active across form BLORA on the bluffs and just above the Sand Flats. I have had a good deal of success on these fish on jigging spoons.

Belton Lake Fishing Report 02/24/2011

2011-02-24T08:48:00.000-08:00

Belton Lake remains low, about 3 foot below normal pool. The lake was keep low to do repairs on the dam, they replaced the rocks on the face of the dam, and now they are doing work on the outlet below the dam. I look for the lake to rise should we get any rain because they are not letting out any water during these repairs. The water temperature has recovered from the 43 degrees we had after the last freezing cold blast. The main lake is around 52 to 55 in the morning and I have been finding up to 65 in the backs of the northern creeks. Some good fish have been caught in Stampede, Owl and Cedar Creeks on spinner baits and flipping jigs and plastic. The small mouth fishing has been slow on the main lake for the last two weeks. I look for fishing to improve greatly over the next two weeks. I have many open dates in March and April, now is the time to book your spring trip to Belton.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 01/19/11

2011-01-18T22:18:00.001-08:00

The construction on the dam is almost complete and the lake should start to return to normal level with the recent and coming rains. Small-mount and Largemouth Bass can be caught on brown/black or red/black crank-baits and lip-less crank-baits. White spinner bait, and dark jigs are also a good choice now. Concentrate in 1 to 10 foot on main lake points and secondary points to find the pre-spawn bass. White bass and Hybrid bass are very active from Temple Lake Park up the Cowhouse and up to the 36 bridge. The easiest way to find these fish is to look for the gulls and fish in the areas the gulls are working, 1 ounce spoons will catch the fish hopped off the bottom and some times off the bottom. Use your electronics to determine the depth to fish the spoons. Until next time good luck and be sure to check out my web pages below.

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Belton Lake fishing report11/26/2010

2010-11-29T02:12:00.000-08:00

With each of the fronts that have been coming in the fishing is improving. The lake is 4 foot low and surface temp of 63. Most fish are moving into the 1 to 10 foot depth range. Crank baits in brown crawdad or chrome blue, white spinner baits and green/brown jigs are working on the rock banks in coves. The White Bass and Hybrids are active from Temple Lake Park to the 36 bridge. I have been catching lots of 16 inch Hybrids on Temple Lake Park mixed in with the White Bass. Catching was amazing yesterday, by myself and caught over 200 white bass, 13 Hybrids (1 over 18 inches) 9 Black Bass (6 were over 14 inches) and a couple of cats and crappie all on spoons in 28 foot of water. Fishing should remain great up to the next full moon, with the bit being better in the after noon time frame.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 10/13/10

2010-10-13T00:18:00.001-07:00

The surface temp is 74 and the fish are bitting good. The bass are in 15 foot or less and are being caught on just about any style you prefer to fish. I am using a C-rig in 5 to 15 foot. Smallmouth are good on the main lake to cedar creek on small crank baits on rocky bluffs, early morning, good topwater bite

Belton Lake Fishing Report 06/20/2010

2010-06-20T12:14:00.000-07:00

Bass fishing on Belton Lake has slowed a little, good fish can be found on long points and humps fishing a watermelonseed baby brush hog in 25 to 45 foot deep on a C-Rig. This is were the big bass are to be found. Early in the morning smaller to keeper size bass can be caught on clear Spook Jr. on main lake points up to the sand flats. Hybrid Striped Bass are good on live bait and jigging spoons in 40 to 50 foot just off Temple Lake Flats or in 30 to 35 up on the flats early and late. Small schools of white bass can be found breaking the supface throughout the lake but these are short lived, a chrome blue rattle trap will work well on these fish.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 06/01/2010

2010-06-01T07:02:00.000-07:00

Bass fishing slowed a little last week with the full moon. The Bass are now in their summer pattern. Crank Baits, football jigs, slow rolled spinners and of course the C-rig are good choices to catch these fish in 12 to 20 foot deep on points near flats. During the day the shad are moving up on the flats and the Bass will follow, look for schooling or chasing Bass on the flats. The Hybrid and White Bass remain good in 30 to 45 foot on Temple Lake Park Flat, and across from Sparta Valley Park, also doing good around Bull Branch. Live shad will get you some great Hybrids but these fish can still be caught on slab spoons. Good Luck, to Bass Champs contestants this month.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 05/09/10

2010-05-09T21:12:00.000-07:00

Belton remains great fishing, lake is two foot low due to the repairs on the dam. The Black and Smallmouth Bass are in shallow water and can be caught many different ways, Pop-r's or flukes early on points. Then a t-rig or c-rig plastic in watermelon red or watermelon seed will work well, just a little deeper later in the day. The Hybrid's and whites are great also, look for the birds for easy white bass fishing, the Hybrids can be found on points and humps from 30 to 45 foot deep on live shad. I have a special trip for Hybrids, be sure to visit my web site at http://www.waypointguideservice.com/

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 04/26/2010

2010-04-26T16:32:00.000-07:00

Belton Lake has come alive, bass have been on points and secondary points in 1 to 5 foot of water. You can catch these fish on just about anything you prefer to fish in that depth of water. I am catching good numbers of 12 to 15 inch bass and a few 3 to 5 pound fish occasionaly. The white bass are great up the Cowhouse, but running small and the Hybreads are good in mid lake areas, Bull Branch, West Cliff II areas. Jigging spoons work well on both with the whites from 15 to 30 foot deep and the hybirds in 24 to 42 foot range. Good luck, and if you are in need of a guide check out my web site.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 03/31/2010

2010-03-31T10:31:00.000-07:00

Belton Lake has come alive, started out fishing white's from 7:30 to 8:30 am caught 70+ fish, keep 50 then we went bass fishing, by 9:20 am had 8 bass, 5 were keepers. Fished 1 to 5 foot on a point and caught 30 bass 16 keepers with the best five bass going 18 pounds. Big fish was 4.5 pounds and we had two 4 lb, two 3.5 and two 3.0 lb smallmouth bass. All this by 10:45 am.

Belton Lake Fishing Report 03/03/2010

2010-03-02T23:50:00.000-08:00

Belton Lake remains high, about 3 foot over normal pool. The lake was up almost 11 foot over pool 3 weeks ago. The Corp. has been pulling and is still pulling a lot of water out of the lake. The surface temp is 48 on the main lake and 53 in the backs of the creeks up north on the lake. Fishing has been slow, the small mouth are biting on main lake point, crank baits and c-rigged baby brush hogs have worked for me the lake week. With the coming warmer weather and the lake stabilizing at normal level the fishing should become outstanding. I look for fishing to improve greatly over the next two weeks. I have many open dates in March and April, now is the time to book your spring trip to Belton.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 09/0709

2009-09-07T12:49:00.000-07:00

Belton Lake bass fishing is very good, today my client and I had over 20 pounds with our best five bass, the largest just over 6 lbs. We caught 8 keepers by noon and several smaller bass. The fish are on main points in 5 to 20 foot deep on carolina rigs. I seen several schools of white bass coming up during the morning and I seen many boats catching whites and hybyrds in 30 foot of water. Get out on Belton and give the bass fishing a try, It is as good as I have seen it for this time of year.

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 07/19/09

2009-07-20T03:01:00.000-07:00

Fishing on Belton Lake has been some of the best fishing this year. There have been numerious tournaments with over 20 pounds to win. The fish have settled into the summer patterns. Look for fish deep 15 to 30 foot on points and humps. Rock is the key to catching the larger fish. I expect to see some big fish moving shollow durring the mid day chasing shad. Every summer you can find some big fish move up durring the heat of the day on the large schools of shad that move over the shollow points and flats. I am fishing a Carolina rigged Smoking Blue Zoom Centipeed and a Watermellon Seed Baby Brush Hog to catch these fish. When you see the shollow action you can move in on these fish and use the C-Rig, the noise the large sinker makes brings these fish over to investigate and will take your bait. Good luck on Belton!

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Belton Lake Fishing Report 05/30/10

2009-04-26T02:48:00.000-07:00

Belton lake is on fire right now. The bass are moving to the summer locations. 10 to15 foot deep is where you will find the better fish on points. The hybrids and whites are in 30 to 42 foot on temple lake park flat and in front of Sparta valley boat ramp. Spoons and live Shad are both working good. Good luck to all the up-coming bass champs entrants.

Belton Lake Fishing Report 03/10/09

2009-03-11T23:21:00.000-07:00

The big fish are moving to the backs of the coves and secondary points, light T-rigs, weightless Flukes and Caarolina rigs are catching fish in 1 to 10 foot. There are some deep fish mixed in with the white bass, look for the birds and use a spoon to weed thru the whites to catch some quality bass in 23 to 30 foot. The forecast is for rain and cold, this will move the bass to the points and drops, fish slow and a little deeper to catch the cold front bass.

Belton Lake Fishing Report 01/19/11

2009-02-14T03:41:00.000-08:00

Belton Lake fishing report11/26/2010

2008-11-20T02:16:00.000-08:00

Belton Lake fishing report 9/23/08

2008-09-24T05:44:00.000-07:00

Smallmouth and black bass up to 5 pounds on small spinner baits on the main lake early. The fish are beginning to move up on the shallow humps on both ends of the lake. I prefer a pumpkinseed bait on a c-rig to catch the fish in the river ends of the lakes. The main lake areas are still holding fish in 12 to 25 foot and I prefer a watermelon seed bait on these points and humps.

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Belton Lake fishing report 8/24/08

2008-08-25T05:09:00.000-07:00

Bass fishing has been good on structure in 15 to 25 feet deep. The lake came up about 3 feet from the recent rains and is presently on half foot above normal pool. Bass on Belton can always be caught shallow when the lake is above normal pool flipping the buck brush, lay-down cedars or willow trees. White bass have been spotty on surface, and good on jigging spoons in 25 to 35 feet deep. Several Hybrid are being caught with the Whites but, most are under size. Be sure if you are keeping these fish that you know the difference between a white and a hybrid. The white bass have one tooth patch on the back of the pallet in the center, and the hybrid bass will have a white line dividing this tooth patch into two separate tooth patches.

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