Catching bass on a pontoon boat at a rainy Canyon Lake

Canyon Lake, which is our nearest larger reservoir, is a real enigma. Most anglers, including myself, find it a difficult lake to fish. It’s really a cold, rocky, sterile body of water. It’s deep. So many of the bass drop into deep water during the cold of winter and the heat of summer. If you’re going to fish shorelines, late March, April and May are best in the spring. October is the best month for shallow water fishing in the fall.

But all this has dramatically changed. Last spring, I began to find patches of aquatic grass, primarily hydrilla. On almost all these small grass areas we caught bass.

Last week I fished Canyon for the first time this year. Bobby Whiteside was my fishing partner.