28 JANUARY 2008






Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a quick, solo, evening trip tonight on Stillhouse to keep my finger on the pulse of the white bass movement to stage prior to the spawn. I fished from 3:45pm to 6:30pm. The air temp. was 68F and the surface temp. was 50.2F. The wind was strong from the south at 20+, but tapered out to 4-5mph by sunset.

I searched some uplake areas including some shallow flats and some areas adjacent to the main river channel. There was ample bait showing on sonar, but not much in the way of gamefish. A fair number of terns were working in this area, but none bunched up and actively diving indicating the presence of fish.

I moved back down toward mid-lake and checked out some channel edges and finally spotted small, suspended schools of whites on sonar. These fish were predictably at 12-16 feet deep over the deeper channel ledge in the vicinity of Area 101. I set up to slab over these fish and found them very hesitant to strike a suspended slab either moving or held still. I replaced the slab with a horizontal slab presentation and that did the trick not only on the suspended fish, but also on bottom oriented fish that showed up from time to time.

The slower the wind got, the more the bite faded. By 6p, most everything was over. I then hooked up the downrigger and used sonar to look over the deep flat adjacent to the channel section I was fishing. I found good numbers of small schools of whites, still suspended, between the channel and Area 100, but only got 1 to strike the moving presentation.

The tally for this trip was 23 white bass, of which 21 were legal. All 21 of these fish were beefy females. This was by far the best quality batch of fish I’ve pulled up in a long time.

Tally = 23 white bass, all caught and released

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