Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Report – 27 April 2009 – 24 Fish






Fished a very short 2 hour trip this evening after looking at the NOAA weather website and seeing the heavy rains that fell today in the Lampasas River watershed. I expect the lake will rise significantly, but don’t know about water clarity, so I wanted to see exactly where the fish were in their downlake movement following spawning so I could know where to pick up the search after the floodwaters reach us.


Start Time: 6:10p

End Time: 8:15p

Air Temp: 72F at trip’s start with occasional light drizzle.

Water Surface Temp: ~68-69F

Wind: Winds were W at ~7-8

Skies: Skies were clearing from W to E

Environmental Note: We got 0.75 inches of rain at the house today

After a real nice visit with (always helpful) Chuck Guthrie over at Tightlines to look over and update the software on my new Humminbird Side Imaging Sonar unit, I was driving home along the Lampasas River and noted that the winds were coming out of the W. on clearing skies after a day of rain and SE winds.

I hoped to capitalize on the windshift and really quickly got the boat in the water and headed out.

I encountered significant white bass activity as far downlake as Area 349. At this location, I began slabbing after seeing fish both on and just off of bottom on sonar. The fish were acting very quirky. They’d ignore my jigged slab time and time again, yet, once one hit and was hooked, 3-4 schoolmates would come off bottom with it and I could typically drop back down and pick off another fish from the still active pack. This happened 4-5 times and I wound up with 8 fish here and moved on.

I headed to Area 418 and found some shallow fish in ~16 feet of water here. These fish were also behaving oddly — just as at the previous location. I picked up 4 more fish on the slab (3/8 oz. TNT 180) and then heard the first of what would be about 40 minutes worth of spotty topwater activity. From that point, I switched over to a bladebait and chased topwater schools of whites until they were done for good, adding just 10 fish to the tally due to the spread of the fish and small size of the schools encountered.

TALLY = 24 FISH, all caught and released

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