We Caught ’em Two at a Time!! — 84 Fish, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Report, 28 March 2013






This morning I fished with Paul T. of Giddings, TX, and his long-time friend, John H. of Austin. We caught a total of 84 fish.



As we fished a ~15′ flat, Paul hooked two fish at the same time on his bladebait!!


These longtime friends put a total of 84 fish in the boat today via downrigging, casting bladebaits, vertical jigging, and easing with a slab.





This was my favorite weather to fish in — grey and breezy with winds from a southerly direction. The fish bit over nearly the entirety of our 5 hour trip today. They started a bit “soft”, but ramped up as the skies brightened through the clouds and stayed solid right up until about 12:20.

Our first success came in the vicinity of Area 571 on either side of the the gentle breakline separating the shallow flat to the west from the deeper flat to the east. The first fish we encountered were up between 12-17 feet, holding tight to the bottom, and were scattered. We used blade baits for these fish, catching most of the fish on the 2nd half of our casts, closer in to the boat. It was at this location that Paul landed two fish on the same lure at the same time. He’d hooked a larger, 12-13 inch white bass and was reeling it in when a smaller white bass tried to steal the “shad” out of its mouth and got hooked, too. After this action settled, we moved a bit deeper. Our count stood at 24 fish.


The next concentration of fish we found were holding on the transition at 22-25 feet deep, also near Area 571. We first encountered these fish as we downrigged over the area we’d just fished bladebaits in in order to cover terrain while still having our baits working for us in the water. We’d already boated 3 fish from small groups of white bass holding on bottom as we came across this larger concentration of fish. We hovered over top of this one area and fished using white TNT180 slabs for our vertical jigging work, then did a “short hop” a few yards away to get our baits in front a a few more “fresh fish” that hadn’t yet seen our baits. By the time the bite died down around 10:40, we’d boated a total of 51 fish.

It was now even brighter, although still no direct sun was striking the water. So, we moved deeper, out to 35-40 feet, and continued searching for fish with sonar.

We first encountered fish at Area 074/1017 and picked up 13 fish here adjacent to the Lampasas River channel before the school dissipated. These fish all came on TNT180 slabs worked vertically.

We searched a few other areas without success before heading to Area 074. Right on top of this area we found a very densely packed bunch of white bass right on the “shoulder” where the flat rolls off into the old river channel. We used a combination of vertical jigging and easing here, both using TNT180’s, to boat our final 20 fish of the trip.

By the time all was said and done, we’d landed 83 white bass, and 1 largemouth bass. John treated Paul and I to a collection of great childhood adventure stories, war stories, and stories of his joy in seeing people of all sorts just get along.


TALLY = 84 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:

Start Time: 7:15a

End Time: 12:30p

Air Temp: 54F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~60-61F

Wind: Winds were SSE9-13.

Skies: Skies were leaden grey the entire trip.








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