Stillhouse Fishing Report by Fort Hood Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Trip conditions:

Trip duration: 6:25a to 9:05a

Air temp: 70F at launch time

Surface temp: 74F

Wind: Light from the SSE at 1-2 for a majority of the this morning’s trip.

Skies: Fair skies

Fished a short stay-in-touch trip this morning.

Started the morning out with some great, albeit short lived, surface action. Both schooled white bass and largemouth bass were feeding heavily on young of the year shad in a pretty good stretch of water roughly between Area 555 and Area 173. Early on I caught a 6:1 ratio of whites, then, as the skies brightened, the whites tapered off and the catch became 100 % short largemouth. Got 36 fish in about 75 minutes of fishing, although the most intense time was the first 25 minutes following sunrise.

After this action died off, I did some more exploring in the 35-40 foot range and found a fairly widespread, deep school of white bass located at Area 176. Using a ¾ oz. slab, I tried to keep these fish teased up the best I could, and stayed with them for about 35 minutes from around 8:25a to 9:00a. During this time I boated 33 fish, of which 32 were whites (all but 2 keeper size), with a drum thrown in. One time a good ~4 lbs. largemouth pursued one of the hooked whites up to the surface and was nipping at it as I reeled it in. All of these fish came on an easing technique. I specifically stopped successful easing to try standard lift-drop jigging and the results just paled in comparison.

I noted that the Corp of Engineers was working today to right the upside-down courtesy dock at River’s Bend Park. Thanks, Rangers!!

TALLY = 69 FISH, all caught and released

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