361 that's what I thought you were saying just making sure I hadn't missed something

A member on here (Armadilla) does fishing reports on the lake. If you go look at his post on December 14th his first two fish were small fish. He had pics of both and the 2nd definitely looks like a smallmouth caught around the bee bluff area. He didn't mention it was a smallie but definitely looks like it. Maybe he will chime in! This obviously doesn't mean they are stacked but confirms what FishKiller says. They are here and there basically. Not enough to go out and target them by any means.

http://www.whitney-lake.com/2014/12/cool-cloudy/

I am not sure I would always recognize a smallie.... we have caught two fish from Whitney that I believed to be small mouth ones out there in the last 15 years or so, and that was in the early part of those years... But, when I posted those pictures I was told they WERE NOT smallies... but that is what they looked like to me... one weighed 5 lbs the other was 19 inches long... no weight taken. But,I have some smallie experience.. back in 1972 or so, I caught one in Illinois and had it weighed on a certified scale.. It was a 4 something... won 1000 purple worms for me that year in a Illinois state wide contest... so I have seen them.. and know how they fight...

As to those pictures on my website... well, I defer to someone who knows smallies... What I do know about those fish is that they were "small fish."

And, I do believe that TP&W has stocked some in Whitney.

I bet if someone were to go out and actully target them they would catch some. Someone weighed in one nearly 4lbs last spring at a burleson bass club tourney. I have a buddy who catches small ones behind the dam. They have to come from somewhere.