Reservation Number : 19636
Property Name : Indian Hollow Ranch
Reservation Date : 10/13/2018 All Day -
Total Fish/Sizes : 65 total; 45 culls; 20 released; 6 lb 8oz
Lures Used : senko; yamamoto creature bait; strike king rage tail

I fished Indian Hollow Ranch on 10/13 and had a great day.  It rained from 7:30am to about 3:15pm.  I caught 30 LMB in the major creek channels, main points and north end of the island.  The cull to release ratio was 2:1, with the cull fish all being 8-10 inches and the release fish between 1.8 - 2.75 lbs.  At 3:00pm, with about 3 inches of rainwater in the boat, I headed back to the boat launch.  On the way back, I noticed that the drainpipe overflows from the upper pond in the damn by the boat launch were moving a lot of water, comparable to the pressure of an open fire hydrant.  After pulling the boat out of the water and packing my gear in the vehicle, it had stopped raining and I decided to shore fish the damn.  I caught another 35 LMB in two hours by casting an unweighted Yamamoto green pumpkin creature bait on a 4/0 EWG into the waterflow from the overflow pipes and letting the pressure carry the lure out to the lake.  It was a fish on practically every cast, either on the float out in the water flow or on the retrieve back next to the water flow.  Again, the ratio of cull to release fish was a consistent 2:1.  I caught one hawg at 6lb 8oz and 22.75 inches right next to one of the overflow pipes.  Although all the cull fish were small (8-10 inches), my cooler was full long before I caught cull #45, so I put some coyote food back in the woods at the far end of the damn.  The lake was full when I arrived in the morning and it rose noticeably during the day from the rain, run-off and upper pond overflow.  When I left at 5:30pm, the upper pond had bypassed the damn via what looked like an engineered overflow bypass and there was a six inch deep, 8 foot wide, channel flowing directly from the upper pond to the lake.