Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Report – 29 Jan. 2009 – 15 FISH






I fished a short half day morning “Kids Fish, Too!” trip today with Jaylen G. of Killeen. Jaylen is a bright, cheerful 9 year old 4th Grader and was a lot of fun to spend time with today. Jaylen had never fished with spinning gear before, nor had he ever been on a boat, so we had a bit of a learning curve to get through before we could worry about catching fish, but, in the end we did just that.


Start Time: 8:00a

End Time: 11:30a


Air Temp: 27F at sunrise heating up to only 46F by trips end and up to 53F for the high.


Water Surface Temp: ~49.0 to 50.1F

Wind: Winds were light and variable until around 10:30, and then took on a NE course at about 6mph.

When we first launched, the sun had just risen and a thin veil of fog was over the surface, but quickly lifted. We found some terns working in several areas, but they were on either shad or loons and were not indicative of gamefish.

We decided to give Area 243/186 a try until the wind began pushing and the fish got active. We put out 2 downlines with live shad and we also vertical jigged. We almost immediately got hit on the shad rod with a small gizzard on it and boated a short largemouth.

We stayed in this same general area all morning and found fairly reluctant fish on bottom and suspended at 30 feet or deeper over a bottom in 38 to 43 feet of water. We managed 2 more whites and 1 more barely keeper largemouth through around 10:30 when, finally, the wind kicked in.

From 10:30 to 11:30 we landed the majority of our fish, 1 keeper largemouth and 10 keeper white bass, all on the 3/8 oz. TNT 180 slab in white. Although we saw many suspended fish (and witnessed many of these follow a smoked slab with some actually striking), most of the fish we actually caught came off the bottom.

By 11:30 things got quiet again — the birds lit on the surface and the winds calmed back down. In all, we did about as well as I expected for the conditions we faced and Jaylen’s experience level.

TALLY = 15 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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