17 | March | 2016 | Fishing Report

Keep Goin’ Owen!! — 101 Fish for the Teixiera/Rosa Crew

March 17th, 2016 by Bob Maindelle

This morning, Thursday, 17 March, I fished with returning guests Butch Teixeira and his grandsons, Ethan and Owen Rosa.

From left: Butch Teixeira and his grandsons, Owen Rosa, age 11, and Ethan Rosa, age 16 teamed up for a half-day chasing white bass on Stillhouse Hollow. The first half of the trip was spent casting bladebaits in shallow water, and the last half was spent vertical jigging in 31-34 feet of water.

Butch and his wife, Lena, traveled down to Texas from Fall River, MA, to visit their family now stationed at Fort Hood. Butch runs his own 14′ aluminum boat with 15 hp motor fishing the freshwater ponds and brackish water rivers in his home state, but, Massachusetts is still firmly in winter’s grip right now, so, getting to fish in a t-shirt with me and his grandsons in mid-March was a real treat.

The shallow bite turned on again for the third day in a row. Due to heavier cloud cover the bite started a bit later than during the past two days, and ended right around 9:15a.

After the shallow bite turned off, we headed for deeper water and, thanks to two ring-billed gulls, found a nice population of white bass in ~33′ of water that cooperated for about 90 minutes as we jigged for them.

By the time the bite died right around 11:15, we had 99 fish boated. We spent another 15 minutes working for that last one to make it an even 100. When Butch sealed the deal we decided to call it a good day on that good note, but not before Ethan contributed one last time. Our catch consisted of 99 white bass and 2 largemouth.

TALLY = 101 FISH, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 7:30a

End Time: 11:30a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 69F

Water Surface Temp: 65.6F

Wind Speed & Direction: ESE8-9 the entire trip

Sky Conditions: Overcast grey skies the entire trip but not to the point of drizzle.

Water Level: 625.40 and falling with 622.0 being full pool. Water being released at 1143 cubic feet per second. Lake fell 0.01 feet in the past 24 hours

Other: GT= 25

Wx SNAPSHOT (a graphical look at the forecast that faced us today):

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 1718 casting bladebaits to white bass aggressively chasing shad in 12-16′; 42 fish

**Area vic 1721 – vertical jigging; 59 fish

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Abadie Family Boats 91 Fish — Spring Break Trip #6

March 17th, 2016 by Bob Maindelle

This evening, Wednesday, 16 March, I fished the 6th “Spring Break Week” trip of the week. I welcomed aboard Andre Abadie, his wife, Linda, and their boys, Nicholas and Christopher for a white bass fishing adventure on Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir.

From left: Nicholas, Andre’, Linda, and Christopher Abadie all display white bass taken from Stillhouse Hollow just a few minutes into their 4-hour trip. The fish cooperated for over 3 of those 4 hours, allowing the Abadie’s to put together a catch of 91 fish.

Andre’ serves as a commissioned officer in the First Cavalry Division on Ft. Hood and Linda works in the healthcare field as a registered nurse. They were referred my way by COL Hank McKnelly whom Andre’ works with.

Although this spring season usually allows for some variety in the tactics we employ, last week’s rains stained the upper part of the lake and the fishing there has been off. It is in that shallower water where casting and trolling have typically paid off, but that has not been the case this week. That left us with one alternative, and that was deep-water vertical jigging.

This is a super-productive technique, however, it is quite technical and requires concentration from start to finish. So, the challenge was to help encourage Nicholas and Christopher to stick with the program. The boys did a great job, improving as they went, and their results reflected this.

By the time the sun set, we managed a nice bag of 91 fish, every single one of which was caught on slabs.

TALLY = 91 FISH, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 3:45p

End Time: 7:45p

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 79F

Water Surface Temp: 65.6F

Wind Speed & Direction: SE8-9 the entire trip

Sky Conditions: A light white hazy cut down on the sun’s intensity and grew thick enough to obscure the sun just prior to sunset.

Water Level: 625.41 and falling with 622.0 being full pool. Water being released at 1143 cubic feet per second. Lake fell 0.06 feet in the past 24 hours

Other: GT= 0

Wx SNAPSHOT (a graphical look at the forecast that faced us today):

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 342/1567 – vertical jigging

**Area 947/948 – vertical jigging

**Area 640/803 – vertical jigging