I am taking some guys from my Bible study group to Lake Sommerville this week but it has been years since I fished the lake. We are going to troll for white bass. I was thinking of trolling parallel with the dam between Welch Park and Yegua Creek Park. Any suggestions on other areas to troll, or depth of water to target would be greatly appreciated. Thanks & Gig'em! Bird '78

They are usually deeper by the dam but I don't really catch that many in that area.

Use a White pet spoon tied on about 3 feet down from a hellbender that has been dehooked.


There is an old country road submerged that crosses from roughly big creek marina area to the right of Rocky creek boat ramp. Water goes from 20's to around 8-10 on that old road bed. Also trolling on the perimeter of the submerged island at welsh can work too. Chrome rattle traps work well if you find them schooling,

Not sure about white bass but I used to walk down the dam across the rocks and to the north end. We'd throw rattletraps out there and caught good largemouth bass. I even hooked a nice catfish on a rattletrap. I think there may be a hole there near an old road.

JP76, thank you very much for the help.These data points give some places to start. I appreciate the input very much.

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Not sure about white bass but I used to walk down the dam across the rocks and to the north end. We'd throw rattletraps out there and caught good largemouth bass. I even hooked a nice catfish on a rattletrap. I think there may be a hole there near an old road.

76AG, you brought back some great memories of scrambling down the rocks and wading into the lake when the white bass were boiling the surface. Little did I know that you weren't supposed to park on the dam. Ha.Fortunately the police never came by while we were fishing

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JP76 said:

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They are usually deeper by the dam but I don't really catch that many in that area.

Use a White pet spoon tied on about 3 feet down from a hellbender that has been dehooked.


There is an old country road submerged that crosses from roughly big creek marina area to the right of Rocky creek boat ramp. Water goes from 20's to around 8-10 on that old road bed. Also trolling on the perimeter of the submerged island at welsh can work too. Chrome rattle traps work well if you find them schooling,

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[color=#000000]JP76, thank you very much for the help.These data points give some places to start. I appreciate the input very much. In addition to Pet spoons, I like to use Little Cleos with white, yellow, or chartreuse crappie jigs on an 18-inch trailer.[/color]

Hit the rocky shoals and points that the wind is blowing directly on to with a rattle trap early. Bait should be getting pushed up on to the point by the current. If there's bait on them, you'll know and catch them right away. If you hit two or three of those without a bite, then I'd go deep.

If you cross to the Big Creek side, in between the big creek cut and old marina/piers there is a very large submerged rock peninsula. Much more shallow than dam but deep enough to hold staging fish.

Been a long time but we used to go to Welch Park and go all the way down to where the beach ran into the dam and wade out a ways. There was a sandbar out off the beach and the wind would push bait up onto that bar. This was back before I learned to fly fish and we'd cast silver-shad Rat-L-Traps across that bar as schools of whites and hybrids would cruise up & down the bar crushing bait. Caught some monster hybrids doing that.