Stillhouse Fishing Report

May 7, 2025

GOOD. Water stained; 73 degrees; 3.11 feet below pool. Thanks to much needed rains in the Lampasas River watershed, the lake is rising at the same time the annual threadfin shad spawn is peaking, thus ensuring high survival rates of yet another year class of forage fish. The lake is rising due to runoff. The white bass seemed to snap out of their intense preference for live bait over artificials and really turned on to lures late in the week last week and continued aggressively chasing and striking lures in the early part of this week. Find fish with sonar, especially well-tuned side imaging, mark them, return to them, park on top of them with your trolling motor, create a commotion by splashing or thumping, and work the silver blade with a chartreuse tail MAL Heavy from flat on bottom upwards for at least six cranks with the first crank harder and faster than the rest to ensure the blade is spinning. Using Garmin LiveScope or similar will be icing on the cake. Search 6-20 feet the first 90 minutes following sunrise, and 20-32 feet thereafter. Focus on the lower two-thirds of the lake, as the upper end by the bridge is getting steadily muddier with recent rains. Report by Bob Maindelle, Holding the Line Guide Service.

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