Stillhouse Fishing Guide Report – 13 November 2009 – 44 Fish






I fished this afternoon with Bill H. of Belfalls, TX. Bill is a retired Navy man and an all around decent, godly fellow. We set our sights on jigging for white bass today and, after a late start due to some .. ahem … licensing issues, got into them pretty good after my good friend Jeff Warren at Salado Creek Outfitters took care of our paperwork problem for us.

Bill H. holding two of several doubles we caught as the whites came in shallow to feed on shad this evening at sunset.


Start Time: 2:40p

End Time: 5:45pm

Air Temp: 77F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~67.5F

Wind: SSW at 13 tapering to calm by sunset.

Skies: Skies were fair.

As we talked over our options for the trip today, we realized we both like vertical jigging, so we searched for fish that would lend themselves to that approach given their depth and location.

We checked several areas without success before being tipped off by a lone osprey. As we were fishing nearby we saw the osprey cover down on a small piece of water and really look it over hard. After a short time, it dove down and snatched up a 8-9 inch white bass, no doubt out of a surface feeding school of whites obscured by the chop on the water.

I mentally marked the spot; we got quickly to that vicinity and looked with sonar, finding a little quirk in the bottom topography here that evidently was holding these fish. We began our efforts here as sonar dictated, in about 17-19 feet. As the afternoon passed and the light dimmed more and more, we found the fish getting shallower and shallower, eventually spilling over up onto an adjacent flat in only 6-9 feet of water, with some fish actually popping shad on the surface or just sub-surface. All this transpired at Area 540.

We jigged the deeper fish with TNT 180’s and threw Cicadas at the shallow fish. By my wife-imposed curfew of 5:45pm, we’d boated 44 fish ranging from 6 to 14 inches and had a blast doing it.

TALLY = 44 FISH, all caught and released








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