10 JULY 2008






Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Conditions:

Start Time: 6:45a

End Time: 12:10pm

Air Temp: 73F

Water Temp: 84.5F

Wind: Dead calm at trip’s start, with a light, humid SE breeze building by trip’s end to ~10mph

Skies: Skies were mostly clear under the influence of high pressure in the early morning, with up to 40% high, thin clouds building in by late morning which, combined with the breeze, kept things bearable.

I fished a ½ day morning trip with a wonderful senior couple, Dick and Barbara D. from the Austin area. Fishing was quite simple this morning. We downrigged the entire trip in the vicinity of Area 205 and within a 150 yard radius of it for the entire morning up until about 11am. For this effort we netted 43 fish including white bass, largemouth bass, and drum. The majority of the catch consisted of ~11 inch white bass with very few shorter and several longer. All fish came on lines run at roughly 24 feet over a deeper bottom and on Pet Spoons and Lunker Lickers. After introducing Dick and Barbara to the mechanics of downrigging, they were each able to completely rig their lines themselves which provided me with more time to watch sonar than usual, thus allowing us to really stay on top of the fish this morning.

At 11am we decided to try a little different technique just for variety’s sake, although the downrigging was still doing great. We baited up with live bait and made several tightline drifts from the SE to the NW into Area 17. We landed a total of 5 solid fish in the next hour including the largest white bass of the trip, a nice 15.5 inch fish, as well as a pair of 3.75 pound bass, and 2 smaller 16 inch largemouth.

TALLY = 48 FISH, all caught and released

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