Stillhouse Hollow Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Flathead Catfish, Channel Catfish, Sunshine Bass
The reservoir
Stillhouse Hollow Lake covers 6,358 acres in Texas, across Bell County. It is a reservoir: 90.2% of it is 80 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 121 feet (36.8 m); at the dam, USGS RESSED gives 168 feet (51.2 m) at full pool. Our records hold 8 species for this water.
Depth: down to 121 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 121 ft (36.8 m). USGS RESSED gives 168 ft (51.2 m) at the dam at full pool: a measured figure, not a survey map. 90.2% of the water is 80 feet or shallower. We hold 85 depth contours for this water, drawn from 243,493 soundings.
- 0–10 ft: 18% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 17.9% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 14.5% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 10.3% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 8.7% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 7% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 3% of the water
- 100–110 ft: 3.4% of the water
6 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Flathead Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Sunshine Bass — Feeding water: 70–80°F. Nonnative.
Also recorded here: Blue Catfish, White Bass.
Stocking: 3,905,587 fish, 1968–2024
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department records list 3,905,587 fish released into this water from 1968 to 2024.
- Smallmouth Bass: 1,330,329 in 1974–2018
- Largemouth Bass: 735,000 in 1968
- Channel Catfish: 445,965 in 1968–2022
- Walleye: 376,240 in 1974–1976
- Flathead Catfish: 2,000 in 1968
3 more species on the stocking list.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 67°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2019. The latest reading is from 2019, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 6,358 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle.
Where this data comes from
- Texas Water Development Board — Texas Water Development Board: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom, 2015.
- USGS RESSED — USGS RESSED reservoir sedimentation database: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
- USACE CWMS — USACE CWMS elevation-area curves: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
- EPA NLA — EPA National Lakes Assessment: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map, 2007.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
