I was just wondering if anybody (maybe some of the Belton Bunch guys) had been up the Lampasas River from Stillhouse. I know that the area and lake had one heck of a flood last summer, and I was curious to hear if it had drastically changed the contour and whatnot. Anybody been as far as the gravel crossing?

Thanks

No. I have not and nobody has posted anything. JMO I do not think it changed much. Yes there will be fewer trees, but as far as the channel/holes they will still be there. I base this off the history of the 1992 flood that was bigger. There was some bank erosion per normal with high water, but all in all you should find all your landmarks still close to where they have always been.

New to the forum here, went out to the gravel crossing launch and its tore up really bad from numbskulls four wheelin and gettin stuck.

Man...KillerB, I'd like to get a copy of your fishing calendar.

Long time no see! Hope you're doing well.

R

Killer B,

Here's a copy of my report from today's trip below, in italics. In summary, no white bass action uplake yet at Stillhouse, however, when it starts, I don't expect many changes. I've been upriver a few times since the flood to look thing over. There are some logs moved, some sandbars have shifted a bit, but all else is pretty much the same. If you go to Gravel Crossing, go with a winch on your vehicle, and know how to use it.



Fished Stillhouse today on my lonesome between guided trips to sample the uplake white bass action. Fished from 7:45 to 1:30. At launch time the air temp. was 31F and the water surface temp. was 50F. There was a light SSE breeze at 5-8 and some thin grey cloud cover.

Normally by this time of year at least some white bass have moved into the upper reaches of the reservoir, but, with the high water temperatures still in existence, I suspect this movement will be delayed.

I observed no bird activity indicating fish anywhere uplake of Union Grove Park today, and graphed no concentrations of white bass on any of the deep flats, channel ledges, or humps that typically hold fish this time of year after running sonar for 3 straight hours.

At around 10:45, I moved further downlake and found both shad and congregated fish. By this time, the activity level had slowed, but I still managed to put 18 fish in the boat including a sweet 8.375 pound channel cat, a 3.5 pound largemouth, and a 15.5 inch white bass, as well as a sunfish, 2 smaller largemouth and 12 smaller white bass. All of the large fish came on live shad, the balance on a jigging spoon. All fish came off of a gentle hump near Area 77.



Tally = 18 fish, all caught and released

Thanks for the report!
-Tight lines-

Nice, VERY nice.... And a great report.... Thanks

Nice Job Bob!
R

Has anyone seen the gators? Wonder if they relocated with all the floods during the summer.

They will still be there . The '92 flood did not wash them away, so this one did not either.