AWESOME TOPWATER — 120 FISH — Stillhouse Fishing Guide Report — 09 Sep. 2011






Wow! The fish fed long and hard today on top. The weather was glorious, the winds were just right, and the company was top-notch…


Ed re-mastered the art of casting with spinning gear, covered the distance, had the accuracy, and put fish after fish in the boat today.

Joe worked both swimbaits and hardbaits for variety’s sake and did extremely well on both.

Mister Joe came to life when the largemouth and whites headed to bottom and we began jigging for them — no one could keep up with him!!

Fishing was a simple as it gets today. We launched, we drove straight to where the fish should have been, they were there, and we caught them for 2 1/2 hours straight!!

Today I was joined by Ed T. and Joe O., both with Central Texas Christian School in Belton, and by Mr. O., Joe’s father. What a decent bunch of fellows they are and what an enjoyable trip that makes for both guide and client!!

We encountered, in the vicinity of Area 910, many well-dispersed schools each holding many (50-60) fish per school. This was true of both white bass and black bass. We fished with swimbaits and hardbaits and kept them on the small side so as to match the primary (but not only) forage — that being threadfin shad ~2.25 inches in length. In the first blitz of the morning, from 7:00am to 9:30am, we boated 74 fish up until the time that the topwater ended.

We then searched with sonar in this same general vicinity and found a deep school of white bass at Area 911 in 48 feet of water. We sat over these fish for a while and managed to get 7 in the boat with a few more missed as the fellows got the hang of the necessary jigging technique. This bite went soft as the gentle breeze we had began to go slack.

From 9:30 to ~10:15 we struggled on a flat calm surface, but, by ~10:25, the breeze began WNW4 again and the game was back on in the deepwater.

We again located abundant, bottom-hugging, aggressive white bass peppered with the occasional largemouth and wore these fish out, boating a final 39 fish in the last 30 minutes of our trip.

As we headed in at 11:00 (due to appointments the fellows had to keep) we left the fish biting with exactly 120 fish boated for our efforts.

TALLY = 120 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS:

Start Time: 6:40a

End Time: 10:55a

Air Temp: 59F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~80.6F

Wind: Winds were NNW4-6.

Skies: Skies were fair and cloudless.








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