Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a brief 2 ½ hour trip this evening to stay in touch with the fishing on Stillhouse now that the water is rapidly warming up.

Trip conditions:

Trip duration: 6:00p to 8:35p

Air temp: 91F at launch time

Water surface temp: 79.5F

Wind: SE at 15 and slowly tapering to SE at 8 by sunset

Skies: Partly cloudy conditions the entire trip; quite humid

Fished 3 areas tonight and caught fish at all 3.

First stop was at Area 176. There was not much showing on sonar here, but there was a number of single fish and bait holding suspended over top of this area. I dropped a slab down and began working it and managed to smoke a small white bass and a barely keeper largemouth. No real evidence of a congregation of fish appeared here after spending several minutes, so I continued the search.

Headed to Area 186. Found just 3-4 fish arches on bottom on sonar here, but they were grouped together and were right on the breakline. I dropped a slab down and began using an easing technique, with an occasional opportunity for smoking presenting itself, as well. Caught one fish after another here for the next hour, putting 53 fish in the boat. This catch broke down to 3 drum (each ~2 pounds), 4 largemouth (all solid and right at 16 inches), and 48 white bass, of which all but 2 were keepers, with 2 of these going 15+ inches. At 7:50p this fishery shut down hard and suddenly.

I then headed shallow to Area 159 and encountered some light topwater action from smallish fish. Caught 7 fish here including 3 largemouth bass and 4 white bass. All 7 of these fish were short.

TALLY = 62 FISH, all caught and released

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