19 FEBRUARY 2008






Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Temple Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a real quick solo trip this morning from sunup to 9:40am just to stay in touch with fish movement.

At the crack of dawn, 7:09am, the water was calm as glass and the sun was bright — very poor conditions. Air temp was 43F and the water temp was 55 F.

I flatline trolled some flats in 10-14 feet to see if any fish were beginning to ease up into the shallows with the warm weather of late. Got 3 small buck bass right away west of Area 110.

Hope that a steady wind would come up began to fade pretty quickly. The whole lake just seemed dead — no shad flicking, no rough fish rolling, no birds flying — just nothing.

I headed over to Area 89 at the deep base of a shallow flat and found an abundance of shad, problem was the shad were simply blanketing the bottom and were not balled up as they were not being pursued. I did pick up one keeper largemouth here on a slab.

I moved on and attempted some additional flatline trolling to cover water hoping to strain out some active fish. Picked up another buck bass.

Finished up near a single resting gull on the surface that seemed reluctant to move. I picked up a small largemouth and a 9 inch white over an open flat in 14′ at that location.

7 FISH, all caught and released

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