It Always Pays to Scout on Your Off Days, 19 Fish, Stillhouse, 07 March 2014

This morning I did some scouting on Stillhouse in advance of a trip tomorrow morning.


I boated a mixed bag today of 19 fish including 18 white bass and 1 largemouth going right at 3 pounds.

We had a good thing going as far as a spring warmup until another crushing cold front came down last Sunday and took overnight temperatures down to as low as 19 degrees earlier in the week.  We wound up losing the 3-4 degrees of surface temperature we’d gained and fell back to 52-53F on the surface.

I probed several places today hoping to put together a “milk run” for tomorrow morning’s trip and for a host of trip over the Spring Break week. 

I found fish in two main locations as listed below.  At the first area, fish were on a secondary breakline just off the river channel in 17-22 feet of water.  They were scattered and occurred in small “packs” of 3-5 fish per pack.  I caught these fish steadily on a 3/8 oz. slab with an “easing” tactic blended into the mix.

The second area was the shallowest I’ve found fish so far this spring.  I encountered these fish by flatline trolling, then worked them over more thoroughly with a bladebait once sonar revealed a congregation of them as I passed over.  These fish were in 11-15 feet of water.


TALLY = 19 FISH, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:
Start Time: 8:30a
End Time: 1:30p
Air Temp: 64F at trip’s start.
Water Surface Temp: 53F 
Wind: SW8-14
Skies: 60% cloudy, clearing to 20% cloudy with fair skies
Other Notes: NA

Areas Fished with success:

**  Vertical jigged 052-053
**  Flatlined and cast Cicada at 1345-1346






Bob Maindelle
Holding the Line Guide Service

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www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com
Salado, Texas