Texas Man Visits Pond To Fish. Then He Notices Something Unusual About The Bank Line

A fishing enthusiast visited a pond in Austin, Texas, and found an interesting thing about the bank line. Here’s why he’s recommending waders.

TikTok creator Marty (@atxbaitmaker) is a fishing enthusiast and veteran who runs Marty’s Master Baits in Austin.

“This is easily the most life I’ve seen in a pond here in Austin, especially right now in the heat of the summer,” he says to start a recent video.

Texas Fishing Enthusiast Visits Whitter Pond Park In Austin

Marty is recording the video from Whitter Pond Park in the Goodnight Ranch neighborhood of South Austin. “There’s plenty of vegetation in this water,” he says. “However, the problem that you’ll find is that a majority of the bank line is that. It’s vegetation.”

Luckily, there’s a simple workaround for this issue. “You need to have waders to make the most out of this place,” he says. “I know there’s fish in here, man. There’s just too much life; there’s plenty of finger-length fish. There’s plenty of palm-sized bluegill that you can see swimming around literally right off the edge.”

To counteract the vegetation, Marty says, “You’re gonna have to be casting a solid 10 feet away from any part of the bank to get past the vegetation. But this is easily gonna be one of the best places to fish that I’ve been to within the past several months.”

How Is Fishing At Whitter Pond Park In Austin?

In the comments section of the video, viewers weighed in on the idea of fishing at Whitter Pond Park. The park is an amenity of the Goodnight Ranch community in South Austin.

“Never had any luck there,” one person said.

A second person agreed. “Not no good action at this pond,” they wrote. “I been trying to catch something here since they first built the neighborhood. No big fish from my experience.”

“My husband noticed that that water is non-potable,” a third person wrote. “I would not eat anything you catch there.”

Someone else offered an alternative. “Check out that pond next to the school down the road from here,” they wrote. “Early mornings and evenings pushing closer to night have some good bites.”

Where Should You Go Fishing In Austin?

Another person in the comments recommended Lady Bird Lake, which is a little farther north of Whitter Pond in downtown Austin. According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, the lake is home to a healthy population of largemouth bass. There are also a decent amount of sunfish and a few catfish as well.

There is cover along the bank consisting of laydown logs and trees, overhanging brush, cypress tree roots, bulrush, and cattails. Anglers will find submerged aquatic vegetation in the lower end of the lake near Longhorn Dam and some weedbeds in the upper end of the lake.

In this Reddit thread posted to r/Austin earlier in the year, a person familiar with fishing at Lady Bird Lake offered a tourist a bit of advice. “Most of the good fishing is around the west end,” they wrote. “Redbud Isle is especially active and tends to produce big fish. Get up under the bald cypress trees with a senko and you’ll pull something out.”

BroBible contacted Marty via TikTok comment and direct message for comment.