12 JANUARY 2008






Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a half-day morning trip today from 6:50a to 12:30p. At launch time the air temp. was 46F and the water surface temp was 53F. The winds were light from the south, but slowly shifted west, then northwest as a quick, dry cold front moved through over the afternoon hours.

Fishing was tough today. There still seems to be very little white bass action upstream of the Union Grove Area. Birds are abundant, but are not focused on shad driven to the surface by fish.

I fished only two areas today – Areas 89 and 90. I got on Area 89 when terns were working over two loons. I knew the loons had to be on shad, and the area has enough topography to hold fish so down went the slabs. Over a 3 hour span, 18 fish came off the area, including 4 white bass from 16 to 16.25 inches and a 3.75 pound largemouth. 2 smaller black bass and 11 smaller white bass were also landed here. All fish were on bottom in 19-15 feet. By 10:30 things shut down as this area was no longer impacted by wind as it was when winds were from the south.

I moved to align on topography impacted by the west wind on Area 90 and found fish on sonar showing at 20-23 feet on bottom. I buoyed these fish as the wind was picking up quickly at this point. Slabs went down and 2 white bass and a largemouth came up. By 12:15 things got real quiet and we called it a day.

Total catch was 17 white bass, and 4 largemouth bass.

Tally = 21 FISH, all caught and released