Find ’em, Mark ’em, Leave ’em Alone! — Stillhouse Scouting Trip — 28 Fish, 10 Oct 2013






This morning I headed out with the intention of finding fish away from the lower basin of Stillhouse. The fish have been in here all summer, but as the thermocline breaks down, they begin moving slowly upstream. Today we tried to find out if they’ve begun moving, and if so, how far.


Scouting success!

I was accompanied this morning by my neighbor and former Port Mansfield guide Bruce Shuler.

As has been the case over the last two weeks, the early morning was very slow (and was also accompanied by light winds), the best bite happened at mid-morning, and, by around 11a, things died pretty quickly.

In order to try to locate fish in as many places as we could while the strong bite was going on, we would find fish on sonar, fish to verify they were there and biting, catch just a few, mark them so I could return, then move on and repeat the process.

In this way I was able to find fish and catch them in 4 areas, and find fish which were unwilling to strike in two others.

The upstream movement has not been all that great yet, but movement towards the main river channel is quite clear.

TALLY = 28 FISH, all caught and released


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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:

Start Time: 7:25a

End Time: 12:25a

Air Temp: 64F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: 77.6F

Wind: Winds were SSE9-13.

Skies: 20% clouds on a fair sky.



Areas Fished with success:

** 1063/986 – 10 fish

** 1261 – 11 fish

** 1262 – 5 fish

** 912 – 2 fish



Areas where we found fish on sonar and did not fish for them or didn’t catch:

** 671

** 871

Bob Maindelle

Holding the Line Guide Service

254-368-7411

www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Salado, Texas








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