Back in the Saddle Again — 40 Fish, Stillhouse, 02 July 2015

After returning from our week-long 20th wedding anniversary trip to Maine, I got back on the water Tuesday morning to do some scouting in advance of a host of trips now scheduled for the balance of July.  This morning I conducted the first of those trips, a Ft. Hood SKIES program trip with 10-year-old Gweneth Marroquin of Killeen.
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This was Gweneth’s largest fish of the trip, a nice 13.75″ white bass that fell for a 3 armed umbrella rig equipped with Pet Spoons.  This was one of a 2-fish “double” in which Gweneth landed 2 fish one one rod at the same time..

I don’t want to reveal too much, as Gweneth should be featured in my Killeen Daily Herald column this coming Sunday, 05 July, but, she did really well, landing exactly 40 fish in her 4 hours on the water, including 7 species of fish.  We were primarily downrigging for white bass and fishing slipfloats up shallow for panfish.

 

TALLY = 40 FISH, all caught and released

 

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:30a

End Time:  10:35a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start:  75F

Water Surface Temp:  84.5F

Wind Speed & Direction: S11 increasing to S14 by trip’s end

Sky Conditions:  80%  cloud cover in the first hour, steadily decreasing to 40%

Note: Stillhouse is at 623.82 and is being held steady due to the need to drain water off of other Brazo River reservoirs

Other: GT=0

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

 

**Area 239 for sunfish

**Area 1570 downrigging for white bass

**Area 876 downrigging for white bass

**Area 189 for sunfish

 

Bob Maindelle

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