04 MARCH 2008

03/04/08 9:43 PM

Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Harker Heights Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a 3 hour morning trip from 7 am to 10 am. This was the first day of clearing weather following the passage of a cold, wet, windy front which came in just after midnight on 03 March. This front dropped the surface temp down to 56 (was up to 59), and, with clear skies this morning, pushed the air temp down to 32, with a light frost in low areas. The wind was light and variable at sunrise, then pushed from the WNW at around 5-8 shortly after sunrise.

Fishing was a bit slow at first as the wind took time to build. I fished at the 22-26 foot deep ledge at Area 121 since the wind was coming in perpendicular to that feature. By 8:30, I had boated 10 fish, including 4 keeper largemouth and 6 keeper white bass. 2 of these largemouth were jigged off bottom, all others were suspended either singly or in small schools.

At exactly 8:36am, a flock of terns spotted shad pushed to the surface by feeding whites and began to feed heavily over 26-28 feet of water in the vicinity of Area 108. I got right on top of these fish and over the next 90 minutes boated 42 more fish including 41 white bass and 1 drum. More fish were seen on sonar as suspended in schools than were seen belly to the bottom, and working a tandem rig through these suspended schools was the key to success. Of the fish caught here, two came in the form of a double, and the breakdown on keepers/shorts was about 3 to 1.

Tern activity was also observed at Area 54, north and east of Area 120, and north and west of Area 72.

TALLY = 52 FISH, all caught and released

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