03 MAY 2008
05/03/08 9:03 PM
Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle
Fished a half day morning trip from 6:30a to 11:30a.
Today’s conditions:
Air temp: 54F
Surface temp: 69F
Wind: Hard from the NNW at 22 at dawn, slowing dying down to 16mph by trip’s end
Weather: High pressure building in following yesterday’s cold front passage. High, clear blue skies, becoming fair with high thin clouds by day’s end.
As I launched pre-dawn, I was going to try to locate shallow whites stalking on windblown points, and did find such activity at Area 162. I found fish scattered around this point in 6-9 feet of water and very willing to hit a bladebait work lift-drop style. Picked up 9 solid white bass up to 14 inches and 2 largemouth bass here in about an hour. This action died as the sun climbed higher.
Next, due to the wind, I headed way uplake and tried to use the north shore as cover from the wind, but the whites have vacated this area, and I found nothing at Area 999, Area 144, Area 116, and in the Area 54/108 complex.
I returned downlake and found a small flock of helpful terns pointing the way to some light schooling action by largemouth and white bass amid the whitecaps at Area 161. I saw a lot more at depth on sonar than I did with the naked eye on the surface, and so went with a slabbing & smoking approach here beginning around 8:30am and stayed on fish here for 3 straight hours resulting in a catch of 60 fish, mainly consisting of 11 inch white bass with larger and smaller ones thrown in, as well as several 2 pound largemouth and several 1 ΒΌ pound drum.
TALLY = 71 FISH, all caught and released
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