Stillhouse Lake Fishing Report by Stillhouse Lake Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished from 4:45p to 8:20p on a shad-netting and scouting trip this evening. This week has been unusually warm (highs in the mid 80’s) and windy. Today’s winds were up to 18 mph from the SSE with surface temps at 70-72. I was able to find shad pretty easily (54 shad in 6 throws and in 3-4 feet at Area 999, of which all but 2 were gizzards). I then backed off into 10-14 feet of water and was able to come up with 3 small white bass on a ½ oz. white blade bait. This area just didn’t feel like it was going to hold a lot of fish, so I moved on looking for concentrations of fish in deeper water.

Found nothing doing from Area 54 to Area 102.

Found abundant schooled white bass at Area 148 and used a straightforward slabbing approach to catch exactly 40 fish here, and then left them biting to find other active areas.

Found nothing doing at Areas 33, 88, 129, 124, and 125.

Made one final stop with about 40 minutes of daylight left at Area 149. The wind was coming right into this feature and the whites bass were piled onto the windward side of it. As I dropped a slab down the very first time, the fish rose up to meet it. I caught the largest fish first, a nice 16.25 inch white bass, followed by several 14-15 inch fish, then settled in and caught up a bunch of 11 inchers. The darker it got, the more prevalent suspended fish became up in the top 12 feet of the water column. By trip’s end, I’d added 35 more fish to the count at this location.

TALLY = 78 FISH, all caught and released

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