This morning, Monday, 31 July, I fished with the Kropp family of Temple, including Paul and his wife, Dawn, and two of their three daughters, 11-year-old Rebekah, and 17-year-old Danielle.  The trip was in celebration of Rebekah’s 11th birthday.

 

The Kropp family celebrated Rebekah’s 11th birthday on the water today.  From left: Danielle, Paul, Dawn, and Rebekah.  We landed 44 fish this morning, primarily via downrigging.

 

The morning got off to a fast start with singles and doubles coming readily under low light conditions.  We picked up 18 fish in the first hour, but, once the direct sun hit the water after rising above a grey cloud bank in the east, the fishing quickly tapered off.

We struggled for about 75 minutes, fishing 3 areas and picking up only 4 additional fish.

Around 9:30 we got back into them over top of a submerged channel and worked this area for all it was worth, putting another 15 fish in the boat and taking our tally up to 37 fish.

Around 10:30 I suggested we hit one more area to see if we could make it an even 40 fish trip.  Upon our arrival, sonar revealed good signatures showing white bass suspended near bottom in groups of 5-10 fish per school.  In about 20 minutes we were able to put a final 7 more white bass in the boat, finishing the morning up with 44 fish caught and released.

There were a number of times where I saw strong congregations of fish which we stopped over top of and vertical jigged for, but none of these scenarios worked out.  The fish not only wanted a horizontal presentation, but they were pretty finicky even about chasing and striking at that.

We did experience a wind shift today with winds out of the ENE versus the southerly winds we’ve had for the better part of June and July.  Winds are due to have an easterly component all week with a moderation of daily high temperatures in conjunction with the wind shift.

 

TALLY: 44 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:30a

End Time: 11:15a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 80F

Water Surface Temp: 84.9F

Wind Speed & Direction: ENE breeze under 10 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: 30% cloud cover

Water Level: 0.05 feet low and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 10

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AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 485-1239 – strong fishing for the first hour under low light and cloud cover; downrigging a 3-armed umbrella with Pet Spoons

**Area 040 – sparse results; downrigging a 3-armed umbrella with Pet Spoons

**Area 1499 – sparse results; downrigging a 3-armed umbrella with Pet Spoons

**Area 329 – sparse results; downrigging a 3-armed umbrella with Pet Spoons

**Area 453 – solid fishing; downrigging a 3-armed umbrella with Pet Spoons

**Area 1971 – solid fishing; downrigging a 3-armed umbrella with Pet Spoons

 

Bob Maindelle

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This past week I ran two trips (Thursday AM and Saturday AM) with members of the Oliver clan, encompassing four generations.

 

On Thursday morning, Cullen pulled this “double”, catching 2 fish at a time on the 3-armed umbrella rig we were using.

 

Not to be outdone, Cullen’s twin 7-year-old sister, Presley, pulled up a double of her own just a few minutes after Cullen’s.

Cullen and Presley’s 5-year-old sister, Harper (with dad, Corey), hung right in there with her older siblings Thursday morning.

On Saturday, from left, Cullen made another appearance, this time joined by his cousins, Ben and Beau.  That’s Grandpa Joe looking on.

3-year-old Beau wasn’t too sure about holding his own fish, so his mom, Amber, gave him a hand.  That’s 87-year-old “Paw” Oliver, Beau’s great-grandfather, on the right!

This past Thursday morning, July 27th, I fished with three generations of Olivers. Mr. Joe Oliver, the principal of Cameron High School, treated his son, Corey, and Cory’s three children,Cullen, Presley, and Harper to a morning fishing trip on Stillhouse Hollow.

Given the kids ages – – seven year old twins and five-year-old Harper, the heat we were expecting by late morning, and how the fishery has been performing as of late, we decided it best to make this a “kids Fish, Too!” Trip, thus focusing just on the kids’ success and reducing the time spent on the water from 4+ hours down to just 3 1/2.

In retrospect, this worked out very, very well.

We began the day keeping the kids as engaged as possible while downrigging for as long as possible, as this horizontal presentation has definitely beat out vertical presentations over the course of this entire week.

In order to keep the kids engaged, we simply try to have them participate in as much as possible by taking the time to explain what needed to be done and why, and then modeling that for them and encouraging them to do these things themselves. Tasks included letting the line out the right distance behind the boat, clipping the fishing line into the downrigger release clip, setting the downrigger ball down to depth, and, of course, reeling in the fish.

Although we did try to mix in a little bit of vertical work for the sake of variety, we really did not see that approach work very well at all.

By about 9 AM, even the horizontal presentation of downrigging was beginning to lose its appeal to the fish.

With about an hour’s time left, we headed up shallow, equipped the kids with bream poles, and began to target sunfish in shallow, cover filled water.

We began this effort with 41 fish already landed, and were able to put an additional 23 fish in the boat in our final chapter.

On Saturday, Joe and Joe’s dad “Paw” Oliver joined us, as his two of Joe’s adult children, Corey and Amber.  Corey’s son, Cullen, made a repeat appearance, and Amber’s boys, Ben and Beau, joined us, as well for a 4-generation boatload of 8,myself included .

We pretty much repeated the downrigging for white bass and shallow fishing for sunfish that we’d enjoyed Thursday, although the white bass bite was a bit softer today.  In 2.5 hours of downrigging effort, we put 28 white bass, 2 largemouth bass, and 1 freshwater drum in the boat, and, in the final hour of sunfishing, put another 20 sunfish of various sorts in the boat for a total of 51 fish on Saturday.

Amber’s capture of a “triple” – one fish on each of the 3 lures on a 3-armed umbrella rig was one of the highlights of the trip, as was 3-year-old Beau’s solo sunfish catch right at the end of our trip.

TALLY: 62 FISH THURSDAY + 51 FISH SATURDAY = 113 FISH, all caught and released

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Thursday

Start Time: 6:45a

End Time: 10:15a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 81F (NOAA Heat Advisory in effect)

Water Surface Temp: 85.7F

Wind Speed & Direction: SSE breeze under 10 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: 30% cloud cover

Water Level: 0.05 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

Saturday

Start Time: 6:25a

End Time: 10:20a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 83F (NOAA Heat Advisory in effect)

Water Surface Temp: 85.7F

Wind Speed & Direction: SSE breeze under 8 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: 60% cloud cover

Water Level: 0.01 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

 

GT = 210

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Thursday

Saturday

 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Thursday

**Area 660-484 for white bass on downriggers early

**Area 484-1221 for white bass on downriggers mid-morning

**Area 851-251 for white bass on downriggers late

**Area 1416 for sunfish

Saturday

**Area 1234-484 for white bass on downriggers first half of bite

**Area 458-1442 for white bass on downriggers last half of bite

**Area 1098 for sunfish

Bob Maindelle

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This past Wednesday morning, July 26th, I welcomed Mrs. Tammy Brown and her two kids, 10-year-old Noah and 9-year-old McKenzie, aboard for the season’s 13th SKIFF trip.  Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Brown is currently deployed to South Korea where he commands a brigade support battalion (BSB).  We also welcomed News Channel 25 reporter Brooke Bednarz aboard.  She produced several videos to document the SKIFF program which ran on the evening news that same day.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO: http://www.kxxv.com/clip/13530012/ctx-fishing-guide-offers-free-fishing-trips-for-military-kids-with-deployed-parents

TALLY: 57 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:25a

End Time: 10:10a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 80F

Water Surface Temp: 86.2F

Wind Speed & Direction: SSE breeze under 10 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: 30% cloud cover

Water Level: 0.12 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 5

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AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 660-1241-484 – early morning downrigging

**Area 1970-453 – mid-morning downrigging

**Area 1416 – sunfishing

 

Bob Maindelle

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This past Monday evening I fished with Braxton Gravens, accompanied by his grandmother, Debra Gravens of Harker Heights.  Braxton flew in from near Oklahoma City, OK, for a summer visit and this trip was high on the list of things to do before returning.

 

While on a summer vacation visit to his grandparents’ place in Harker Heights, Braxton Gravens of Oklahoma City was treated to a fishing trip by his grandmother, Debra Gravens.  Braxton landed 44 fish this past Monday evening.  On several occasions he landed 2 fish at a time as we downrigged with multi-lure rigs.

Thanks to some local thunderstorms, our afternoon trip temperatures were bearable and we enjoyed a good bit of cloud cover.  The instability in the weather caused by these storms put the fish off a bit, as evidenced by the fact that we did not see a single school of fish come to the surface to strike at bait the entire trip.

Since Braxton’s prior experience was limited and took place some time ago, we started with the basics by targeting sunfish up shallow and then stepped up to bigger game later in the evening.

In under 7 feet of water, we used light tackle on a bream pole to catch a variety of sunfish species.  In under an hour’s time Braxton managed to put 20 sunfish in the boat and got pretty good at bait placement once he realized how important it was to keep his rod tip down low after making a presentation so as not to drag the bait back toward the boat.

Next, we set out in search of white bass in deeper, open water.  We found 2 strong populations of suspended fish and worked them thoroughly as there was a lack of heavily congregated fish feeding near bottom thanks to the unstable weather caused by the passing storms.

At our first downrigging stop we put another 20 fish in the boat using 3-armed umbrella rigs equipped with Pet Spoons.  We then moved in search of some bottom-hugging fish to jig for within an hour of sunset but found little.  We then moved again and targeted another collection of suspended fish.  This group gave up another 4 white bass before an early sunset caused by heavy cloud cover in the western sky brought the bite to an end around 8:35p.

Braxton single-handedly landed a total of 44 fish.  As we parted ways in the parking lot he told me, “Thank you for this memory I’ll never forget.”

TALLY: 44 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 5:15pm

End Time: 8:45pm

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: a cool July 88F thanks to nearby thunderstorms which passed just in time for us to make a timely departure from the dock

Water Surface Temp: 87.1F

Wind Speed & Direction: S breeze under 10 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: 60% cloud cover thanks to some nearby thunderstorm cloud remnants

Water Level: 0.15 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 0

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AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 200 – sunfish on slipfloats (20 fish)

**Area 671-1082 – white bass on downriggers (20 fish)

**Area vic 058 – white bass on downriggers (4 fish at last light)

Bob Maindelle

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This morning, Monday, July 24th, I welcomed aboard Jayden Barrios of Killeen and Cam Lazar of Harker Heights for a morning of multi-species fishing on Stillhouse Hollow.

Jayden Barrios, son of US Army SSG Adam Barrios and Mrs. Stacy Barrios, joined me for a morning of multi-species fishing on Stillhouse.  He landed largemouth bass, white bass, sunfish, and blacktailed shiners.

Cam Lazar landed this nice pair of two-year-old white bass at the same time on 2 of the 3 Pet Spoons attached to the 3-armed umbrella rig we were downrigging with.  Cam and his mom, Danielle, live in Harker Heights, TX.

Jayden’s dad, US Army Staff Sergeant Adam Barrios, is currently on his 4th deployment in his 13 years on active duty.  SSG Barrios’ current assignment has him in Kandahar, Afghanistan, working in an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit.

Cam lives with his mom (non-military connected), and I learned through a mutual friend of hers and mine that he loved to fish but didn’t have a means to pursue his interest to the level he desires.  Since I had a light load of anglers this morning, and knowing that the boys were close in age, I invited him along.

I picked both boys up between 6:00 and 6:15am at their homes and we then headed for the boat ramp.

The first 45 minutes on the water were fairly calm, and so this made for easy spotting of largemouth feeding on shad at the surface which in turn led us to even more fish which were suspended or holding on or near bottom.  We immediately got into white bass with the balls set where sonar dictated and, as we slowly idled with the downriggers fishing.

As the boys worked the ‘riggers, I watched sonar closely for the presence of large groups of white bass holding on bottom.  When we encountered what I was looking for, I stopped the boat atop these fish using the Spot Lock function on the Ulterra trolling motor.  As the motor worked it magic getting us in a hover over the fish, we quickly put up the downrigger rods, cleared the downrigging gear, and changed over to ready-to-use vertical jigging rods.  The instant our lines hung vertically, we dropped onto the fish below and started working them over.  We got into 3 separate successful scenarios like this this morning, allowing for a total of 45 white bass and 3 largemouth bass to be landed before we switched over to sunfishing in our last 40 minutes just for variety’s sake.

In those last 40 minutes, the boys handily put another 32 fish in the boat including longear sunfish, bluegill sunfish, and blacktailed shiners.  We used long bream poles and slipfloats for this work.

When all was said and done around 10:30, we’d amassed a catch of 80 fish.  The boys ate non-stop on the boatride back to the ramp, and on the truck ride back to their homes.  Jayden said, “I was so excited about the different fishing, I forgot to eat”.

TALLY: 80 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:25am

End Time: 10:35am

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 78F

Water Surface Temp: 85.8F

Wind Speed & Direction: S breeze under 10 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: 100% haze/thin grey cloud cover sufficient to block the direct sun

Water Level: 0.15 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 0

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AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area vic 484 to 1968 — downrigging and smoking

**Area 668 to 1970 — downrigging and smoking

**Area 1098 – sunfish on slipfloats

 

Bob Maindelle

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This morning, Saturday, July 22nd, I fished with the Urban family of Tuscon, Arizona.  Dave is a member of the Arizona Air Guard, Edilia is on a temporary duty assignment to Fort Hood, and the boys, 17-year-old Ivan and 9-year-old William, are still in school.  Dave and the boys drove in for a few days’ visit with Edilia.

 

Dave Urban landed this personal best 5.125 pound largemouth on a slab in 38 feet of water.  My clients routinely catch quality largemouth as a by-catch as we fish for white bass on Stillhouse year ’round, although the incidence rate is much greater in the cold months.

The Urban family of Tuscon, AZ.  From left: Ivan, Edilia, William, and Dave.  Both Dave and Edilia serve in the military.

As we began this morning’s trip, the productive fishing centered on Area 1960 finally played out.  Bait was scarce, only a few small largemouth were popping on topwater, and white bass were hard to come by after multiple searching passes with the downriggers.

I didn’t waste any time getting to “Option 2” which I came upon yesterday morning.  In water from 36 to 50 feet deep I found abundant fish and bait within just a few yards of where I’d found them with sonar yesterday.  This morning’s topwater bite was definitely less aggressive than yesterday’s, but, thanks to a southerly breeze, the bite held up well through 8:40a, then did a slow taper down to near nothing by 10:30.  Even so, we were still able to catch fish by alternating between downrigging (to both catch and find large collections of fish), and vertical jigging (once bottom-hugging concentrations of fish were found).  The commotion caused by the thumper and by all 4 anglers’ presentations did a good job of keeping fish in the area and interested in biting.

We stayed inside a 90 yard radius for all but the short time I spent checking out Area 1960, and we put exactly 100 fish in the boat, consisting of 3 drum, 4 largemouth bass, and 93 white bass.  A majority of the white bass were 2-year class fish or older.  Slabs did well for us until the mid-morning slowdown, then tail-spinners ruled for the balance of the morning.

TALLY: 100 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:25am

End Time: 10:25am

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 82F

Water Surface Temp: 86.2F

Wind Speed & Direction: SSW breeze under 8 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: No cloud cover.

Water Level: 0.17 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 10

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AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area vic 1969 – produced all but 2 of our 100 fish as we alternated between downrigging and vertical work with slabs early, then used tail-spinners late.

Bob Maindelle

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This morning, Friday, July 21st, I welcomed aboard 15-year-old Aaron Cherry of Nolanville who was participating in the “Fishing 101” program I offer through the Ft. Hood SKIESUnlimited program.  We fished a multi-species trip on Stillhouse.

 

Aaron Cherry of Nolanville with one of 58 fish we landed this morning.  Most fish came in the first 2.5 hours under breezier conditions than we would encounter for the remainder of the trip.  No fish were caught in less than 35 feet of water.

 

Aaron has fish with me before so much of the learning curve I must take new youngster through was already behind us, allowing us to get right down to catching.  We downrigged for just a few minutes just prior to sunrise, but quickly changed over to vertical jigging based on the number of fish we saw both suspending and along the bottom.  We caught a mix of white bass, largemouth bass, and freshwater drum on white 3/4 oz. slabs.

Because we were fishing in deep water (38 feet) and because the water is about as hot as it is going to get all year, some of our fish experienced barotrauma.  This allowed us to experiment with a new device I’d had recommended to me by Jim Hester, a local bass tournament angler, called the Flip Clip.  This is essentially a weighted alligator clip made of lead which pulls fish to the bottom of the live well and helps the pressure in their swim bladder equilibrate so they can be released and swim back to or near bottom.  I was please with the performance of the device and now have 3 sets of 3 clips onboard to help with the release of fish retained for client photos.

All told, Aaron and I landed 58 fish.  Most of these came in the first 2.5 hours of the trip.  The last 1.5 hours was very tough as it got hotter, brighter, and more windless.

SKIESUnlimited stands for Schools of Knowledge, Inspiration, Exploration, and Skills.

SKIESUnlimited offers dozens of activities for military and Department of Defense kids of all ages, ranging from gymnastics to piano lessons, from academic tutoring to various forms of dance, and more.  Monetary credit for such courses is available for children whose military parents are deployed.

To participate in such courses, children must first be registered with Child and Youth Services.

Registration is free and is accomplished by contacting Parent Central Services at 254-287-8029.

Once registered, parents may go online to enroll their children for the myriad courses available.

 

TALLY: 58 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:25am

End Time: 10:25am

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 81F

Water Surface Temp: 86F

Wind Speed & Direction: SSW breeze under 4 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: No cloud cover.

Water Level: 0.19 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 0

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AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area vic 1239 downrigging briefly, then transitioning into smoking with slabs once solid sonar returns were seen.

**Area 1241-1968 (in trough) downrigging after the Area 1239 bite soured

**Area 1960, 1528, and 664-649 — all produced scant results after 9a on downriggers

Bob Maindelle

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This morning, Thursday, July 20th, I welcomed aboard Mrs. Mary Tenorio and her two daughters, 9-year-old Elianna, and 5-year-old Abrianna.

Mrs. Mary Tenorio and her two daughters, Abrianna (left) and Elianna (right) with a trio of the white bass we landed during their SKIFF trip on Stillhouse this morning.

Elianna with a plump, feisty largemouth bass.

The girls’ father, US Army Staff Sergeant Rafael Tenorio, is a non-commissioned officer in the Field Artillery currently deployed to South Korea.  He headed out just weeks after the family relocated to Ft. Hood from Ft. Campbell, KY.

The girls had a little prior fishing experience, so we built on that this morning.

Over the 4 hours on the water we employed downrigging and vertical jigging to target white bass, and slipfloats up shallow to target sunfish.

We devoted the first 3 hours to chasing white bass and wound up with 66 fish caught via downrigging and vertical jigging including 63 white bass, 2 freshwater drum, and 1 largemouth bass.  About 75% of these came on the twin downriggers, each equipped with a 3-armed umbrella rig, thus putting 6 baits in the water at any given time.  The balance of these fish came on a “smoking” retrieve as we sat hovering atop heavily schooled white bass using the Minn Kota Spot Lock feature on my Ulterra trolling motor.

Around fish number 50, Abrianna conked out on us and assumed a horizontal rest position under a pile of windbreakers on the seat in front of the console, leaving big sister Elianna to do all the heavy lifting on the fish, assisted by mom whenever two rods went off with fish at the same time.

With about 50 minutes or so remaining on the water, we transitioned over to fishing for sunfish up shallow.  Elianna helped cut the livebait we would use and did pretty well at roll-casting with the bream rod we red for this finesse work up shallow.  We added 8 more fish to our count including bluegill, redear and longear sunfish.

“Homefront” spouses with a husband or wife away from home on military duty (not just deployments) are welcomed to call me at 254.368.7411 to arrange for free 4-hour outing for your children.  Homefront parents are always welcome to attend, but are equally welcome to take some downtime from their own children and leave them in my care for this time on the water.

TALLY: 74 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:25am

End Time: 10:25am

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 80F

Water Surface Temp: 86F

Wind Speed & Direction: S breeze under 7 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: No cloud cover.

Water Level: 0.21 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 0

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AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 1966 — “ground zero” for early downrigging out to an 80 yard radius for first 90 minutes.

**Area 1510 –“ground zero” for mid-morning downrigging out to a 50 yard radius through 9:30a

**Area 1967 – 8 sunfish up shallow to close out the trip

Bob Maindelle

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