21 APRIL 2008






Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a quick scouting trip this morning to see what the wind, heat and overcast skies have done to the fishing. I fished from 6:30am to 10:00am. At launch time the air temperature was 68F and the water temperature was 68.5 to 68.8F. The winds were slack the entire time with just a puff from the SW from time to time. I’m sure this lack of wind is what negatively impacted the fishing, as all other conditions (clear water, warming temps, and overcast sky) were ideal.

I spent the first hour or so just slowly cruising, occasionally stopping to look and listen for topwater action, but spotted nothing but rolling rough fish, and an occasional single, small largemouth bass chasing shad. The Bonaparte gulls were present at midlake, but they, too were patrolling and did not find schooling fish driving bait to the surface. As I moved about slowly, I kept a single downrigger ball in the water set at 20 feet with a small spoon trailing and got a small largemouth on that.

After concluding that topwater wasn’t going to happen this morning, I headed to a series of areas, starting shallow and working deeper, to see what I could find.

My first stop was in the vicinity of Area 116. I fished from 12 feet out to 21 feet here and encountered the best action at 17-18 feet on this slow slope. Small schooled white bass were holding here tight to the bottom and were very reluctant to chase. I downsized my ΒΌ oz. slab to a 1/8 oz. slab after repeatedly seeing their lack of reaction, and did better on that presentation. Wound up with exactly 20 fish here including 16 smallish whites, 2 small largemouth, and 2 crappie right at 11 inches each.

Made a final move to Area 102 and searched it with sonar. One high area showed promise, so I began slabbing and managed only one white here, albeit a nice 13.5 inch fish. I quit fishing at around 9:40 and experimented with a new size of drift sock in the little wind their was, and then headed in.


TALLY = 22 fish, all caught and released

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