13 MARCH 2008






Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Fort Hood Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished from 7:45a to 1:45pm today. Temperature at start of trip was 55F, climbing to 84F by mid afternoon. Water surface temp was 57F. Winds were from the SSW at 7-8 pre-dawn, and increased to a peak of around 25mph by 12:30pm, and then slowly decreased through sunset. Skies were heavy grey and overcast through around 11:15am, and then began to lighten to fair.

Things got off to a slow start this morning, with only 8 fish boated by 10:15am. These fish all came on a flatline troll E & W of Area 888 and N of Area 999. All of these fish were smallish and included 4 largemouth and 4 white bass.

Around 10:15 the terns which had been patrolling widely began to coalesce over specific areas indicating the whites were beginning to feed there. I hit a number of areas while the fish were active in order to determine which areas were holding fish and which were not. The results of this milk run were as follows; all fish were taken on a slab:

Area 54 (and to the NE) = 80 fish at 24-28 feet, vast majority caught from suspended schools; 79 whites, 1 largemouth. Got 5 sets of doubles on tandem rig.

Area 104 = 20 fish at 27-33 feet, vast majority caught from suspended schools; 18 whites, 2 largemouth

Area 34 = 4 fish at 24-27 feet, 2 whites, 1 sunfish, 1 largemouth; all fish came off bottom; couldn’t really fish this area well due to heavy winds crashing into it. Sonar showed more fish there, but I couldn’t get them

Area 120 = 20 fish at 24-26 feet, 19 whites, 1 drum; all fish were tight to bottom and were caught by “teasing” fish off bottom, one at a time

Area 100 = 10 fish at 21-25 feet, 7 whites, 2 largemouth, 1 sunfish; all fish were tight to bottom and were caught by “teasing” fish off bottom, one at a time

By 1:30 the action had just about ground to a halt.

TALLY = 142 FISH, all caught and released

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