Stillhouse Fishing Report by Stillhouse Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a Kids Fish, Too! trip this morning with father and son Randy and Andrew J. of Killeen, and Andrew’s buddy, Xavier W. of Killeen. We fished a half day morning trip from 7:15am to 12:15pm. At launch time the air temp. was 50F following the passage of a wet cold front on the morning of the previous day. This morning was clear and cool with light and variable winds. The water surface temp. was 67-68F.

We had very tough conditions to deal with today – bright and windless. Nonetheless, the fact that the water temperature has increased fairly rapidly has the fishes’ metabolism on the go, and we were able to consistently stay on the fish for the entirety of the trip.

We began our trip up shallow in 10-16 feet in the vicinity of Areas 110 and 116 and used a slabbing approach to put a mixed bag of white bass, largemouth bass, crappie, and drum in the boat. We landed 30 fish this way in about 2 hours and 15 minutes.

We then mixed it up a little bit and let the kids stretch and snack while trolling in this same general are. We took our tally up to 39 fish in this manner, including a new TPWD Jr. Angler lake record white bass, measuring 15.50″ in length and weighing in at 1.75 pounds (certified).

By 10:30 we were looking at sonar and scouting out some deeper fish on 24-30 foot humps. We found one solid school of whites mixed with drum NW of Area 54 after making 3 separate stops at other areas nearby after seeing fish on sonar, but not seeing real concentrations of them until getting to this area. All three guests stayed hooked up consistently here over about a 45 minute span. When the slabbing action died here we’d boated a total of 62 fish.

Around 11:30, the already tough fishing was beginning to tail off. We returned to Area 110/116 and trolled up another trio of fish including 2 white bass and a short largemouth, and then called it a day.

TALLY = 65 FISH; all but 2 drum were caught and released in good condition.

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing