Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Trip conditions:

Trip duration: 4:00p to 8:45p

Air temp: 75F at launch time

Surface temp: 72F

Wind: Southeast breeze at 7-9 for a majority of the this evening’s trip. Partly cloudy skies, becoming lightly overcast with high thin clouds by day’s end. At and after sunset winds went slack.

Had success at 3 primary areas today, although I also tried other areas, as well.

Upon launching, headed to Area 145 after looking with sonar at the adjacent areas nearby. A large school of white bass was camped out on this area. I dropped down a ¾ oz. slab and caught 16 whites and 4 largemouth in no time, including a nice 6.00 pounder.

I left this area with the fish still biting to try to identify other productive areas while the “window was open”.

I found a few fish on bottom in 23-26 feet in the vicinity of Area 161, but these were of a mixed bag (sunfish, black bass, crappie, and white bass) and no evidence of schooled fish was apparent. Caught only 4 fish here.

At this point I did a little exploring but found little on sonar and during slab drops. Picked up 4 largemouth here and there but no schooled fish congregated on bottom features.

The last run of success came right at and after sunset. As the winds slackened, I fished in the lee of Area 159 and could see schools of small whites working on schools of juvenile shad on the surface. Picked up a total of 27 fish in the last 45 minutes of the trip including 4 largemouth bass and 23 white bass up to 12 inches. All of these came on a popping cork with a Polished Chicken fly behind it.

TALLY = 51 FISH, all caught and released

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