Hey y’all,

 

I don’t do this often but looking for advice on where to fish this weekend. I make no secret of the lakes I fish. Don’t really see it as a big deal. I’m not a good enough fisherman for people to care. 
 

Let’s do Saturday since that’s the day I’m most concerned with. Conditions are as follows:

 

Stillhouse Hollow

14ft low. Been rising quite a bit over past month.

Prefrontal conditions. Thunderstorm is forecast to hit in the evening. 

Winds 7-14mph SE prior to storm (dominant wind direction). During storm ESE. 
70 degrees overnight. Pretty close to water temps. 

 

Comments: I don’t think I like how this lake fishes while it has been rising but it should set up well if I wanted to throw topwater all day to try and coax a larger fish that pulled up. Stillhouse is my home lake. Hydrilla galore.
 

Somerville

About 0.75ft high and dropping slowly. I do like this lake while it is dropping.

Should be stable conditions. Winds out of SE all day. Similar winds to Stillhouse. 
70 degrees overnight (similar to water temps)

 

Comments: I’ve fished here a little and it is my arch nemesis lake. But, I had my best day on the water and biggest fish of the season from this lake last year. Moreover, my electronics work on this lake is very thorough. 
 

Brownwood

Wild card. I’ve never fished here before. Conditions are similar to Stillhouse except it is coming from about -9ft and a little cooler overnight. Thunderstorm is even larger here coming in. 
I like the look of this lake a lot but as I said I’ve never fished here before. 

TX. I fish in a kayak. Only going for a DD this season. I will be fishing daytime for this trip.

Here would you go? 

 

 

I choose using the same criteria that I'll use to pick a horse in the Kentucky Derby tomorrow.  Because I like the name. 

 

Stillhouse Hollow

 

Reminds me of this song

 

Whichever body has the best record of producing trophy caliber fish, short of good data on that, I go to the lake where I'd personally caught the largest fish.    

 

If I lived in Texas, I'd be doing whatever I could to fish Bois D Arc lake.   I feel like this is the most exciting lake in Bass fishing.   That lake will be producing teener class fish in a couple years max, so folks will have a couple of years to really learn the lake before the evitable big fish gold rush happens there.     

13 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Bois D Arc lake

4 hr drive

13 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Whichever body has the best record of producing trophy caliber fish

Stillhouse and Brownwood are pretty much on par. Somerville does not have the same record, but less people fish there and I believe there are a lot of catches that aren’t being reported.

 

Trophy caliber here means DD. Forget about catching a teener at any of these lakes. You would nearly be breaking the lake record. It ain’t happening.

Ivey is close, on a DD per hours in the car basis. 

8 hours at Ivey is better than 12 hours at whatever other lake you were going to. 

Just went a week or so ago, was mad at myself for not going sooner. It paid off.