Eating “Mike & Ike” candies is sure to improve fishing performance! 110 Fish on Stillhouse today!!






This afternoon I fished with lifelong buddies Jack S. and Tim V., both originally from the Waco area.


Tim landed this 7.25 pound yellow catfish (a.k.a. flathead catfish) on a 3/4 oz. slab from out of a large school of bottom-hugging white bass.


Jack and Tim put together a nice bag of 110 white bass today on a variety of tactics as the fishes’ activity level dictated.


These two fellows, now in their early 50’s, originally became friends in gym class one day when they stood by one another while lining up in alphabetical order.

Jack was the serious fisherman of the two, very keen on techniques and curious about why the fish were caught were where they were and why they did what they did. Tim, on the other hand, was more of a “tourist” fisherman. He enjoyed being outdoors and being with his buddy and doing something out of the ordinary, only occasionally allowing a fish to interrupt his good times.

As has been the case over my past 2 trips (both afternoon trips), the bite began pretty soft, then built later into the afternoon on today’s trip as well.

We caught fish today on Area 074, beginning around 2:25pm. These fish were pretty tentative, rarely pulling very far off bottom. We did one “short hop” in this same general area and, by the time we departed, had boated 28 fish from here, mostly 1 year old fish.

Next, we headed for Area 1039. There were a lot more fish here, and, as we prepared to hover over these fish and slab for them, they began to pull up off bottom out of curiosity. We caught fish here by jigging, easing, and slow-smoking. We also caught a variety of fish here including 5 largemouth bass up to 2.75 pounds, a 7.25 pound flathead catfish, and 42 white bass. The average white bass here was a solid 3 year old fish.

As Jack and I kept a steady stream of fish coming aboard, Tim kept a steady stream of Snickers, Mike & Ike’s, Dagwood sandwiches, and Dr. Pepper going down his hatch. Were he to have “seriously” fished, it would no doubt have hindered his ability to recount such interesting current news stories such as those about jewelry-eating-barracuda in Florida, a man rising to over 30,000 feet in a lawnchair-turned-hot-air-balloon, and the complexity of calculating precise angles of re-entry necessary to have space junk to hit private homes in Wisconsin.

By 5:50p, our fish count stood at 76. I told the fellows that the magical 100 mark was within grasp IF we all participated (Jack and I stared directly at Tim as I said this!), and if we all focused on our technique. I moved us back to Area 074 and the fish were there! We got our slabs down and had a double on in no time. In the next 20 minutes we all did our best to convert every strike we got into a boated fish and, by the time the sun set and the fish quit, we’d boated a total of 110 fish. Every last fish today came on a TNT180 slab in 3/4 oz. fished either by vertical jigging, easing, or slow smoking.

TALLY = 110 fish

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 2:00p

End Time: 6:25p

Air Temp: 57F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~55-56F

Wind: Winds were NNW17 at trip’s start slowly tapering off to NNW7.

Skies: Skies were fair on the NNW wind.