Fished a scouting trip on Lake Georgetown in advance of a father/son outing scheduled for this coming Thursday. After fishing G’town, I opted to run that trip on Stillhouse instead. G’town is about 18 feet low and there was a lot of recreational traffic on it. I fished today with Stephen F. Austin college student Zach B. of Georgetown. We met at the Central Texas Boat Show in January and planned this trip then. He was going to show me a bit about largemouth fishing on G’Town, and I was going to show him my electronic sight fishing technique.

Start Time:4:00p


End Time: 8:00p


Air Temp: 80F at trip’s start, cooling slightly by day’s end.


Water Surface Temp: ~57F

Wind: Winds were flat calm.

Skies: Skies were clear and bright.

We started off with a little downrigging to get a feel for the fish, the water, the bait, etc. We contacted fish at Area 398 and landed a small white bass there and moved on to continue to try to find fish holding waters.

Our next success came at Area 394. We saw a single gull patrolling over this area acting reluctant to leave and, upon drawing closer, found occasional whites popping shad on the surface. We picked up 4 whites here on the downrigger and Zach picked one off on top with a bladebait.

We continued searching and saw good sonar returns at Area 396. This was fairly shallow and with an undulating bottom, so we hit it with bladebaits and managed 6 more white bass here.

We then headed upriver and again saw a few birds working over scattered fish driving shad to the surface. We worked over a fairly expansive area and managed 8 more whites, all on fancast bladebaits.

Once the river action died, we headed back to the main lake and checked out the drop at Area 397. I teased up 1 white crappie here on a slab.

We finished up the night working along the bank at Area 404 and managed 3 whites and 2 largemouth. All but one fish came on the bladebaits; that one largemouth came on Zach’s Carolina rig.

TALLY = 22 FISH, all caught and released

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