21 MARCH 2008 (AM)






Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished two trips today, one in the morning, and one in the afternoon. The results are posted in separate reports.

Fished from 8:15am to 12:00 noon with Don C. (grandfather), Scott S. (father), and Spencer and Austin S. (10 & 12 year old brothers). We targeted deep schools of white bass with slabs today and did well despite the fish being in a fairly non-aggressive mode all morning.

At launch time the air temp. was 54 F and the water temp. was 60-61F. The wind was light from the S at 6, increasing to 15 by 9:30, then tapering off to 8mph from 10am and for the remainder of the trip. We ran a milkrun of deepwater areas, slabbed briefly at each area to check for fish activity level, stayed if the fish were hitting, or ran elsewhere if the fish were turned off or sluggish. We got into a good bunch of fish right off the bat at Area 77. Terns were present all around this area, but dissipated after 30 minutes. We never found solid bird activity again the remainder of the trip. Our findings were as follows:

Area 77 – solid fishing on bottom

Area 78 – solid fishing on bottom

Area 54 – nothing

Area 104 – suspended single fish only

Area 77 – nothing

Area 128 – solid fishing on bottom

Area 88 – nothing on sonar

Area 129 – nothing on sonar

Area 124 – nothing

Area 125 – nothing

Area 79 – nothing

Area 122 – scattered fish on bottom

By trip’s end we’d landed 66 fish, primarily consisting of smallish white bass, with several largemouth, crappie, and drum thrown in for good measure.

TALLY = 66 FISH, all caught and released

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