With my mornings all this week dedicated to my church’s Vacation Bible School, all of my fishing is in the evenings this week.  This evening I took out two elementary-aged kids, Baylie Savage of Midland, TX, and Ryan Nicholson of Killeen, TX.  Mr. Al Nicholson, Ryan’s dad, accompanied us.

Baylie caught the first fish of her life tonight on Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir.

Ryan and his dad, Al, with one of the many white bass we caught on downriggers tonight.

We were fortunate to essentially drive from the boat ramp directly to a large, suspended school of white bass feeding on shad in 24-31 feet of water over a deeper bottom.  We rigged up two downriggers, one with a tandem rig and the other with a 3-arm umbrella rig, and caught white bass until the novelty wore off, all on Pet Spoons.

We then went up into shallow hydrilla beds and put some icing on the cake with some sunfish caught on poles equipped with slipfloats using maggots for bait.

As the sunfish bite died as we approached sunset, we took one last shot at suspended whites, hooking 2 and landing 1 in the closing minutes of the trip.

Baylie had never caught a fish before in her life, but put that to rest in a big way.  As we downrigged through a large school of white bass using the umbrella rig, white bass took 2 of the 3 lures and Baylie was successful in bringing them both over the side, catching not just her first fish, but her first and second fish, both at the same time.

Ryan, at age 7, is already an old salt.  On his first trip with me he landed the (still-standing) Junior Angler lake record crappie.  He, too, did very well this evening, catching half of the 24 fish we landed.

Our catch today consisted of 16 white bass, 1 freshwater drum, 1 channel catfish, and 6 sunfish (greens and bluegills).

TALLY = 24 FISH

 

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:30pm

End Time:  8:45pm

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start:  93F

Water Surface Temp:  84.5F

Wind Speed & Direction:  SSE6-8

Sky Conditions:  Fair skies.

Other: GT=0

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area  912/913/914 Downrigging for white bass

**Area   1256/1416/1418 sunfish

 

 

Bob Maindelle

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Salado, TX

www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com