29 JAN 2008

01/30/08 9:36 PM

Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a quick, solo, morning trip this morning on Stillhouse to keep my finger on the pulse of the white bass movement to stage prior to the spawn. I fished from 7am to 10am The air temp. was 62F and the surface temp. was 50.2F. The wind was south at 5-6 at launch time, but tapered up quickly to 20 mph by 11am, and up to 30+ by mid afternoon. As the wind built, it also shifted from the south, through the west and to the north, and the temps dropped sharply down to 38F by sunset.

I searched some uplake areas including some shallow flats and some areas adjacent to the main river channel. There was ample bait showing on sonar, but not much in the way of gamefish. A fair number of terns were working in this area, but none bunched up and actively diving indicating the presence of fish.

I moved back down toward mid-lake and continued to look for birds and at sonar. All was still quiet by 8:30 and with only 1 small white boated at Area 101 during a quick stop there.

Finally, at around 9:45 a small flock of terns ~20 in number began feeding over open water at and between Areas 54 and 102. I got on these as quickly as I could, and wound up catching 13 keeper whites and 1 short largemouth out of this activity in about 30 minutes. These fish were caught with a combination of slabs and horizontal slabs. Then, it was over. No fish, no birds, no nothing. The winds went slack just briefly, and then the wind began to come out of the west as I headed in.

The tally for this trip was 14 white bass and 1 largemouth bass.

Tally = 15 fish, all caught and released

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