14 APRIL 2008






Stillhouse Hollow Lake Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Lake Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a brief evening trip this evening from 5:15p to 8:20p just to stay in touch with the movement of the fish in this spring season.

One seasonal milestone to note: the Bonaparte gulls are present and were displaying their mating habits as they frolicked over open water today.

A cold front which began to move through the area 3 days ago has been reinforced with a “northwest flow” which has resulted in north winds, and clear, cool, cloudless conditions ever since. This morning’s low temperature was a record low for this date of 35F.

At launch time the air temp. was only 68 and the water surface temp had fallen to 68.5 from a recent high for the year thus far of 70.

Winds today were beginning to turn to the east and were E at 8 during the majority of the trip.

I was hoping to capture sonar images today in preparation for a March 2009 In-Fisherman magazine article on slabbing, and so searched with sonar looking for a concentration of fish.

Found little at Areas 54 and 107, but then moved to Area 102 and the sonar lit up.

I dropped a heavy slab down and got an immediate response and went through 28 fish, all white bass, in about as many minutes. I captured all the images I was hoping to, and then left that area to look for active fish elsewhere. I checked the spine at Area 78 and pulled one black crappie off of it. I also checked just to the northeast of Area 35 and got 1 small largemouth on topwater after seeing several small fish feeding on shad on the top. I returned to Area 102 and found the fish again right where I’d left them. Caught 45 more fish here bringing the trip tally to 75. Fished here until about 20 minutes prior to sunset and then moved over to Area 116 hoping for some shallow water white bass action. Caught only 1 small crappie and 1 small white bass on a blade bait and so moved over to Area 144 where I got one small largemouth bass just beyond sunset.

I packed it up and headed in at that point

TALLY = 78 fish, all caught and released

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








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