Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Report – 04 April 2009 – 35 Fish






Fished a 1/2 day “Kids Fish, Too!” trip this evening on Stillhouse with Steve K. of Killeen. Steve comes from a single parent home and mom wanted him to have some “guy time”. Now, Steve is only 4 years old, and so his attention span is pretty short, so we fished in a way to cater to that fact — and I brought Rebecca as a second set of eyes, ears, and hands.

STEVIE K. WITH A NICE STILLHOUSE SPRINGTIME LARGEMOUTH


Start Time: 5:00p


End Time: 7:50pa


Air Temp: 79F at trip’s start.


Water Surface Temp: ~62F

Wind: Winds were moderate at 12-15 from SSW at trip’s start and gradually tapered off to 3-4 mph by trip’s end.

Skies: Skies were fair.


I started us out looking for some easy deepwater jigging over white bass, and found some at Area 410, but each time we caught a fish out of the fairly thick school there, we drifted off as we tried to show Steve the fish, take pictures, answer all his questions, etc. So, it was entertaining and educational for Steve, but we weren’t fishing very effectively — sometimes that okay, though. We kept a livebait rod rigged and down in this area.

We put 2 largemouth (on livebait) and 7 whites (on slab) in the boat off of this area before the school dissipated. We then searched downlake from here but didn’t find much going on. Around 6:50p we spotted a flock of terns working over a fair expanse of water with some occasionally indicating definite fish activity over Area 411. We got right on these birds (the first evening bird activity I’ve seen since January) and did real well. With all 3 of us jigging, we quickly put 26 fish in the boat in less than 40 minutes, all on TNT 180 slabs (3/8 oz.).

As sunset approached, these active fish began to move up in the water column and were still very active and catchable, but trying to explain to a 4 year old how to catch a suspended fish was just not in the cards. We left these fish biting and headed for one last stop in shallow water to check for some topwater, but found none.


TALLY = 35 FISH, all caught and released


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