{"id":3573,"date":"2025-10-20T23:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:03:36","slug":"stillhouse-hollow-lake-fishing-report-october-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2025\/10\/20\/stillhouse-hollow-lake-fishing-report-october-20-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Stillhouse Hollow Lake Fishing Report \u2013 October 20, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stillhouse Hollow Lake is sitting at full pool with clear water in the 4\u20136 ft visibility range and temperatures around 76\u00b0. Despite the date on the calendar, unusually warm conditions have kept the bass in more of a summer pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most consistent action has come from targeting nomadic schools of bass with forward-facing sonar. These fish are following shad, so depth, structure, and cover don\u2019t play much of a role. Weightless soft plastic jerkbaits and mid-strolling techniques have been producing the best results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also a few scattered bass to be caught around submerged vegetation and shoreline cover, but those bites have been less consistent lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Bass Score = 2; Numbers Score = 5; <strong>Total Score = 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/stillhouse-hollow-lake-bass-fishing-oct-2025.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/stillhouse-hollow-lake-bass-fishing-oct-2025.jpg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Father and son holding quality largemouth bass caught at Stillhouse Hollow Lake during a guided trip in October 2025. Fish were caught on weightless soft plastic jerkbaits and mid-strolling minnow-style baits on a sunny afternoon.\" class=\"wp-image-3571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/stillhouse-hollow-lake-bass-fishing-oct-2025.jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/stillhouse-hollow-lake-bass-fishing-oct-2025.jpg.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Father-and-son clients with a pair of quality largemouth bass from Stillhouse Hollow Lake, caught this past week on soft jerkbaits and mid-strolling minnow plastics during a bright fall evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stillhouse Hollow Lake is sitting at full pool with clear water in the 4\u20136 ft visibility range and temperatures around 76\u00b0. Despite the date on the calendar, unusually warm conditions have kept the bass in more of a summer pattern. The most consistent action has come from targeting nomadic schools of bass with forward-facing sonar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[59,37,51,53,43,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-3573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stillhouse-hollow","7":"tag-bass","8":"tag-fall-fishing","9":"tag-forward-facing-sonar","10":"tag-mid-strolling","11":"tag-shad-patterns","12":"tag-weightless-jerkbait","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}