11 | April | 2016 | Fishing Report

This evening, Saturday, 9 April, I fished with Lance Lee and his 7-year-old daughter, Logen. The pair drove in all the way from Hobbs, New Mexico, after an early morning wakeup and a stop in Waco to pick up a really cool-looking mobile chicken coop, to come out fishing with me on Stillhouse Hollow in pursuit of white bass.

Lance and Logen Lee of Hobbs, New Mexico, caught 100 fish this evening on a daddy-daughter fishing trip that went just right.

Lance and Logen had fished with me once before last summer after the thermocline set up, so, today’s vertical jigging trip was very different from that hot weather trip involving a lot of downrigging and panfishing up shallow using slip floats.

We got going right at 3:45p, and checked three areas before finding fish. We found heavily congregated white bass literally carpeting the bottom over a span of 20 yards in about 34 feet of water. I dropped the #Ulterra and put Spot Lock on a mission to keep up over these fish in a ~16mph wind. We boated 24 fish here before the bite died down forcing us to look elsewhere.

Our next bit of success came at an irregularity in the bottom adjacent to the river channel, also in 34 feet of water. These fish were holding on a breakline in a tight cluster. We again Spot Locked over top of these fish and worked our white 3/4 oz. slabs vertically. This area gave up 18 fish before going quiet.

Our next stop came in ~50 feet of water. We jigged for just 6 fish here. Despite seeing interested fish from bottom upwards to as much as 4 feet off the bottom, they just got very reluctant. It was now around 6pm and, given the decreasing light level and cloud cover, I decided to move us shallower to take advantage of the remaining light.

We checked several areas, finally finding fish in 25 feet of water. These fish were tightly packed together and were holding in multiple, distinct clusters over a 60-yard diameter area. I could tell this would be a good stop, as the fish began rising up off the bottom in curiosity about the noise produced by the outboard and trolling motor. Indeed, the sheer number of fish here combined with the evening low-light period was a great combination. We arrived at this area with 48 fish boated, and wrapped up our trip here a tad early with exactly 100 fish boated.

Logen had reached her limit and had her heart set on dinner right about 7:10pm, so, we called it a good day at that point and headed for home.

TALLY = 100 FISH, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 3:45p

End Time: 7:10p

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 68F

Water Surface Temp: 65.6F

Wind Speed & Direction: Winds were ESE13-15 the entire trip.

Sky Conditions: 90-100% grey skies the entire trip.

Water Level: 622.45 and falling with 622.0 being full pool. Water being released at 399 cubic feet per second. Lake fell 0.01 feet in the past 24 hours

Other: GT= 0

Wx SNAPSHOT (a graphical look at the forecast that faced us today):