17 NOVEMBER 2008






Fished a half day morning trip on Stillhouse today with two very nice young men, Christian and Brent, both Aggies, both dads of 3 year old daughters, and both working as managers in the construction trade in Temple.

Start Time: 6:45a

End Time: 12:10p


Air Temp: 41F at trip’s start, warming to the mid 60’s by day’s end

Water Temp: 64.1F


Wind: Winds were light but steady from the WSW at 6 from pre-dawn until 9:30am, and then went SW up to 12, and then died to light and variable for the afternoon.

Skies: Skies were clear and bright under high pressure.

Today was the 2nd day of high pressure following the season’s 3rd major cold front’s arrival this past Friday and Saturday. Generally, this can make for some tough fishing, but our saving grace today was a wind with a westerly component that blew over the entirety of the morning feeding period.



As the sun rose, we flatline trolled Bomber baits in the vicinity of Area 110 and came up with only one white bass which would be one of our 3 largest fish of the trip. 3 more passes with 2 baits out yielded nothing, so we moved on.



With no bird activity to point the way to fish, we headed to between Areas 108 & 304 to run downriggers while watching sonar with the intent of stopping over congregated fish to slab for them. This plan went well. We caught a small white bass on the White Willow spoon but didn’t see any schoolmates with it. Our second white, however, came out of a large, active school of fish spanning a section of bottom about 60 feet in length, about 20 feet wide, and included individual fish feeding on and slightly above bottom. I buoyed these fish and we worked them over with slabs for nearly 90 minutes. The majority of our fish, 41 to be exact, came off of this area during this time. Once this action died around 9:30, the fishing really fell off.



For the remainder of the trip we tried graphing a number of areas and found fish as follows:



9 fish at Area 88. Included 2 drum, 2 small largemouth, and 5 white bass. We noted abundant forage here, and not as many gamefish as I expected given that concentration of forage.



5 fish at Area 186. All white bass, all holding just back from the shoulder of the breakline, up on the flat in 31-32 feet.



1 fish at Area 306. At this point, we lost our wind, and, despite seeing some activity on bottom, the fish were done.



TALLY = 60 FISH, all caught and released



Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing








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