Lake Stillhouse Fishing Report by Stillhouse Lake Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished from 3p to sunset this evening. At launch time the air temp. was 60 degrees and the water surface temp was 55 to 56 degrees. The skies were clear in the morning, turning fair by mid day. The morning low was 29 degrees and a light N breeze blew until around 11am, then went calm, then turned S for the remainder of the day. By around 3:45 the wind began pushing hard enough to stir the fish and they stayed turned on until sunset.

I tried several new areas today and briefly checked some very reliable areas in advance of a ½ day guided trip on 10 March.

My first stop was a result of some frisky tern activity over open water. SW of Area 79, on the N. wall of the channel as it rises from 80 to 60 feet, there were some scattered whites and blacks ghosting abundant schools of shad. I turned up the sensitivity on sonar to get a good look at what was what, and could make out individual fish, suspended in 22 to 40 feet. I managed a single white and a single black and moved (as did the terns).

Next stop was to see if Area 122 was still holding solid fish. It was … I got 6 fish immediately off bottom and left that area alone for Monday’s trip.

Next stop was at the base of the slope at Area 126 which was being hit directly by the wind. That yielded 4 suspended whites and 2 suspended blacks, but nothing on bottom indicating fish were holding in this area.

Checked out some unproductive tern activity on the shallow flat SE of Area 79…birds were just flying from loon to loon and picking shad as they patrolled … nothing driven by white bass.

Next stop was at Area 125 topping out at 24 feet. I fished the S facing edge of this feature which was receiving the wind action. Did pretty well here and all fish came off bottom. Took the tally from 14 to 26 with 12 fish caught here in about 30 minutes, including 3 blacks (2 keepers).

Final stop came at Area 124, also topping out at 24-25′. Again, I fished the S facing edge of this feature which was receiving the wind action. Got 13 fish here in about 20 minutes, then, at sunset , everything stopped. The fish here included 3 healthy crappie, 1 drum, a small black bass, and 7 whites. All fish came off bottom. The last fish of the day is a pending new lake record for the “Warmouth Sunfish”. This fish was 7.0 inches long and weighed 0.25 pounds Thanks to Chuck P. and his son Jason for being the weigher and the witness for the application form!!

All fish caught today were caught by slab.

TALLY = 39 FISH, all caught and released

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