29 NOVEMBER 2008






Fished a morning trip on Stillhouse this morning with Dave D. of Hawaii and his 2 grandsons, Cody (age 13) and Dylan (age 6).

Start Time: 6:30a

End Time: 11:05a

Air Temp: 51F at sunrise (obscured), warming only to 59F due to a northeast breeze and cloud cover.

Water Temp: 61F

Wind: Winds were NE during the entirety of the trip at 7 to 12 mph.

Skies: Skies were leaden grey the entirety of the trip.

We had quite a challenge this morning. A damp NE wind never bodes well for fishing on Stillhouse, and we had 2 young men aboard who had never fished before, so we took things one at a time.

First we went through on-the-water casting lessons with closed face equipment. Cody got the hang of it on his 1st try, Dylan took a little longer, but did better than most 6 year olds. Next, we fine tuned our retrieve, then I put them on the fish.

The fish were not nearly as aggressive or numerous as over the past several days between Area 112 and Area 257 and we really had to strain for them. We managed 22 fish by 8:30am with everyone catching about the same number of fish. Little Dylan anchored the string with his 3.5 pound largemouth shown below. All fish came on bladebaits. The breakdown was 2 largemouth, 1 drum, and 19 white bass.

When the shallow bite died off, we took a hand-warming and snack break and then tried a flatline troll in the vicinity of Area 319 and picked up one white and one small largemouth here. We then shifted over to Area 114 and found fish stacked right on the break here, as well as up onto the flat to the east. We picked up 3 doubles and 4 singles here — all white bass. With the trolling that consistent, I knew we could hover and cast to these fish. We did so, and put 4 more white bass in the boat before things got quiet.

We resumed a flatline troll for the remainder of the trip and put 11 more fish in the boat, all one at a time.

By about 10:45 the kids had all they could take of the cold wet wind and wind chill so we wrapped up our trip at that point having done very well despite the difficult conditions.

TALLY = 49 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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