LIVESCOPE TO THE RESCUE – 102 FISH @ STILLHOUSE

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This past Friday morning, July 29th, I fished with returning guest Doug Streater of Temple, TX.

Doug is part of the executive leadership team at Extraco Bank and has been out with me previously in all season and in all weather.

This morning’s trip was focused on the success of his grandkids, Colby (13) and Camryn (10).  Colby has been out with me before and is a solid fisherman.  This was Camryn’s first time on my boat, and I discovered she was a good listener which makes her a fast learner.

Here is how the fishing went …

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PHOTO CAPTION:  From left: Doug, Colby, and Camryn Streater with a few of the well-proportioned deep water white bass we landed this morning — 102 in all, and each taken on the MAL Dense Lure.

WHERE WE FISHED: Stillhouse Hollow

WHEN WE FISHED: Friday, 29 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

The fish on Stillhouse right now play to my strengths in that they are deep and scattered, making it a must to have excellent sonar and be able to both adjust it on the fly and interpret images from deep water.

Investing the time to slowly, methodically sweep over large tracts of bottom will, with a bit of patience, eventually result in finding concentrations of fish worth setting up on and fishing for.

I’ve also found, as my good friend Clay L. at Respect the Fish, has observed and shared, that a handful of summertime fish on sonar can quickly blow up into a multitude of catchable fish which seemingly materialize out of nowhere.

Such was the way we pieced together this morning’s trip.  We searched with sonar, we found fish, we Spot-Locked atop them, we fished for them as long as they stayed interested, and then we moved on and repeated the process once the bite at a given area went soft.  A few times we found fish which never really did “fire up” for us, but that was the exception, not the rule.

LiveScope was key today in helping keep my young clients engaged, and in letting everyone know what the fish were doing in relation to their retrieve.  LiveScope made it clear when fish were following our baits so everyone knew when to continue to retrieve.  LiveScope also made it clear when fish broke off the chase so everyone knew it was then okay to let their lures return to bottom, thus making everyone very efficient.

At each location, before moving, I scrutinized my side-imaging screen to see if there were any congregations of fish to my port or starboard.  If they were their, we’d cast horizontally and use the sawtooth method.  Otherwise, “smoking” the lures up off bottom vertically was the default method today.

At no point did we need to use downriggers today as the fish stayed active through nearly 11AM.

The MAL Dense Lure with white body and chartreuse tail was the only lure we used all morning.

Our final tally was 102 fish, including 101 white bass and 1 channel catfish.

A tutorial of the smoking method we used is found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDSvfXgrAUE

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  102 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS:  “Schoolie” largemouth continue to feed on topwater over large expanses of open water.

WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 7:10A

End Time:  10:55A

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 79F

Elevation: 7.39 feet low,  0.06’ fall in last 24 hours, 1 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 84.8F

Wind Speed & Direction:  SSW10-12 all morning

Sky Condition: Pale blue, cloudless skies all morning.

Moon Phase: Waxing crescent moon at 1% illumination.

GT = 60

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Area SH0150G/1424 – 28 fish smoking only

Area SH0209G – 2 hops – 62 fish smoking and sawtooth

Area SH0210G – 12 fish smoking only

 

 

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

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TEAMWORK MADE THE DREAM WORK — 119 FISH @ STILLHOUSE

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This morning, Tuesday, July 26th, I fished with a portion of the Oliver family — Temple-Belton natives from “way back”.

Mr. Joe Oliver and two of his three adult children, Thomas and Amber, were joined by Amber’s three kids, Ben (15), Beau (8), and Addie (7).

Corey, Joe’s other son, also has three kids.  They’ll be fishing with me next Wednesday!

Here is how the fishing went …

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PHOTO CAPTION:  From left, back row: Joe, Thomas, and Amber Oliver; from left, front row: Addie (7), Ben (15), and Beau (8).  As Beau said a few time this morning, “Teamwork makes the dream work.”  Once everyone got into a groove, stayed in his or her own “lane” when retrieving their lures, moved hooked fish away from the person to their left or right, etc., catching the fish became a regular occurence.

WHERE WE FISHED: Stillhouse Hollow

WHEN WE FISHED: Tuesday, 26 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

After Belton’s topwater action went on a 3-day AWOL status, I moved on over to Stillhouse to offer kid-friendly fishing which did not require casting to my three young anglers this morning.

We fished MAL Dense Lures (white body, chartreuse tail) 100% of the time today across six areas to put together our 119 fish catch.

Well-adjusted sonar capable of picking out single fish on bottom in deep water (or, at best, small groups of fish) is critical right now as fish are in splintered groups here, there, and everywhere chasing after shad.

Once the fish were found, we Spot-Locked atop them and worked MAL Dense Lures vertically with a “smoking” tactic to land fish after fish.  The nice thing about having multiple anglers is that there is rarely a time when a bait is not in the water, thus keeping something attractive to the fish in the water and down near the bottom where they lurk most all of the time.

We kept 3-4 rods going all the time as Thomas manned a rod and as Joe and Amber filled in when one of the kids tired or needed a snack break.

We landed 119 fish including 116 white bass (2 short), 2 largemouth bass, and 1 freshwater drum.

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  119 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS:  We experienced an overnight mayfly hatch on Stillhouse.  This was the first strong hatch I’ve seen this summer.

WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 6:40A

End Time:  10:20A

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 77F

Elevation: 7.16 feet low,  0.06’ fall in last 24 hours, 1 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 84.9F

Wind Speed & Direction:  SSW10-13 all morning

Sky Condition: Pale blue, cloudless skies all morning.

Moon Phase: Waning crescent moon at 5% illumination.

GT = 110

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Area SH0207G/SH0032G – 37 fish

Area SH0031G – 21 fish

Area vic 1412 – 22 fish

Area 872 – 5 fish

Area vic 913 – 18 fish

Area SH0208G – 16 fish

 

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

Twitter: www.twitter.com/bobmaindelle

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DID THEY STOP ON TOP? — 70 FISH @ BELTON

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This morning, Monday, July 25th, I fished with Tom Bohmfalk and his 13-year-old granddaughter, Annika Price.

Tom, a retired physician, was referred my way by Mr. Dwight Stone, a retired restaurateur and friend of Tom’s.  I truly appreciate such “word of mouth” business!

Although I fished with Tom and his two younger grandkids last week, the attention they required prevented a whole lot of conversation.  This morning, we got talk a little more and I very much enjoyed his stories of medical mission work for the cause of Christ with populations of Mexican Indians.

Here is how the fishing went …

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PHOTO CAPTION:  From left: Annika Price (age 13) and her grandfather, retired Dr. Tom Bohmfalk, landed 70 fish on Lake Belton.  We anticipated continued topwater action, but the fish had other ideas.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Monday, 25 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

If you’ve been following my reports, you’ll recall I took Tom and his two younger grandchildren to Stillhouse late last week.  At that time, both Belton and Stillhouse were fishing well, and I chose Stillhouse because the smoking and downrigging tactics I’ve been successful with would not require those younger children to cast in order to be successful.

My plan this morning  was to fish Lake Belton.  With only two anglers aboard, I can run the trolling motor from between my two clients on the front deck as they sight-cast to fish feeding on topwater.  Since Annika is 13, I felt I could get her up to speed on her casting sufficient to allow her to catch topwater white bass consistently.

All that was well and good until the white bass failed to show up!!  Sure, there was the “standard” bit of schooling on top for a few minutes right around sunrise, but the hours-long action we enjoyed last week was nowhere to be found this morning.

So, we took lemons and made lemonade by using the downriggers to catch fish and, more importantly, find large concentrations of fish which we could Spot-Lock atop of and fish vertically for.

We enjoyed two solid episodes of vertical work with downrigging before and after each and worked out way up to a final catch of 70 fish by around the 4-hour mark.

All of our fish on the downriggers (about a dozen in all) came on #12 Pet Spoons (silver, white feather) trailed behind a 3-armed umbrella rig.  All of the fish we caught after finding them on side-imaging while downrigging came on the MAL Dense with chartreuse tail.

During the first bout of “smoking” vertically, as the fish settled down and showed to be thinning out on Garmin LiveScope, I spotted some out to the deeper, port side of the boat.  We worked the same baits with a sawtooth pattern back to the boat with good success until that, too, played out.

Our catch consisted of 69 white bass (2 shorts), and 1 short hybrid striper.

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  70 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS:  Topwater action was much reduced versus the “gangbusters” activity of the past 2 weeks.  This morning’s action was limited to just a few minutes right at sunrise, and even that was far from intense.

WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 6:45A

End Time:  10:55A

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 79F

Elevation: 7.08 feet low,  0.07’ fall in last 24 hours, 89 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 84.9F

Wind Speed & Direction:  S10-13 all morning

Sky Condition: Pale blue, cloudless skies all morning.

Moon Phase: Waning crescent moon at 9% illumination.

GT = 25

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Area 2054 to 153 – light sunrise topwater action

Area 905 to B0084G – downrigging leading to success on on smoked/sawtoothed MAL Dense Lures (chart. tail)

 

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

Twitter: www.twitter.com/bobmaindelle

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A SONAR SIGHT TO BEHOLD – 80 FISH @ STILLHOUSE

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This morning, Friday, July 22nd, I fished with two of Tom Bohmfalk’s grandchildren, Abigail and Josiah Bohmfalk, as Tom capably served as “first mate” helping me help the kids be successful on this “Kids Fish, Too!” package trip.

Such trips are both shorter in duration and more economically priced than my standard 4+ hour adult trips.

Here is how the fishing went …

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PHOTO CAPTION:  From left: Abigail, “Poppy” Tom, and Josiah Bohmfalk with a pair of white bass the kids landed simultaneously early on in our trip using MAL Dense Lures to get to bottom quickly in deep water.

PHOTO CAPTION: A sonar sight to behold when you are trying to put 7 and 8 year old kids on fish and hold their attention!!  Thank you, Lord!

PHOTO CAPTION: Abigail landed this 4.50-pound largemouth from out of 57 feet of water.  It chased after an MAL Dense Lure and was mixed in with a large school of white bass.

WHERE WE FISHED: Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir

WHEN WE FISHED: Friday, 22 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

Both Lake Belton and Stillhouse Hollow are fishing well right now with stable weather setting the stage for much consistency in the fishery.  I chose Stillhouse for this morning’s trip because I knew I could help the kids do well without requiring them to do a lot of casting, given their young age and lack of prior experience with spinning tackle.

We fished only three locations this morning and boated a total of 80 fish.

Our first stop came in 57 feet of water and produced 45 of our 80 fish.  This area also produced longer than any of the other areas.  We stayed in a single Spot-Lock position and worked MAL Dense Lures vertically while the kids watched their presentations and fish response to those presentations on Garmin LiveScope.

After this played out, we found a subtle, underwater depression which held a lot of smaller schools of white bass, each with perhaps 25-40 fish, as seen on side imaging.  Since the kids’ wrists were just about shot at this point from fighting fish, we downrigged for these fish with twin ‘riggers, each equipped with Pet Spoons running behind 3-armed umbrella rigs.  We took another 30 fish from this location before the bite went soft around 9:45.

We hit one last location and fished it in the same manner as our first stop of the day.  The fish were really gearing down at this point in time.  We took a final 5 fish in our final 35 minutes on the water, and then called it a day.

Our tally was 80 fish, including 76 white bass and 4 largemouth bass; no sub-legal fish of either species was landed.

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  80 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS:  Thanks to a cooling layer of cloud cover and winds which picked up to 13 mph by mid-morning, the topwater action which has been taking place reliably through around 10A was diminished this morning.

WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 6:50A

End Time:  10:20A

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 79F

Elevation: 6.98 feet low,  0.06’ fall in last 24 hours, 186.4 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 86.8F

Wind Speed & Direction:  SSW10-13 all morning

Sky Condition: A solid, thin grey cloud mass stayed with us until ~9A, then began to break up.  By trip’s end, we had 40% broken white cloud cover on a bright sky.

Moon Phase: Waning crescent moon at 5% illumination.

GT = 5

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Area SH0207G – 45 fish on smoked MAL Dense Lures (chart. tail)

Area vic 866-889-1134 – downrigging for 30 fish

Area SH0063G – final 5 fish on smoked MAL Dense Lures (chart. tail)

 

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

Twitter: www.twitter.com/bobmaindelle

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NOW OFFERING FISHING AT CAMP OMA — 49 FISH @ BELTON

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This past Wednesday evening, July 20th, I fished with Gary and Debra Jones’ grandkids, Gunnar and Ford Jones and JuJu Holifield, as Granddaddy and Oma just sat back and watched from the bow.

I rarely run evening trips from mid-May through mid-September, but, Gary is a good client, and he and Debra had a very limited window where all of the grandkids were going to be together at one time, so, we made the best of a very hot Texas summer evening.

“Camp Oma”, as the family calls it, is the annual gathering of grandkids at Gary and Debra’s place in Temple, TX, over the summer.  It’s been going on for 15 years.

Here is how the fishing went …

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PHOTO CAPTION:  From left:  Debra, Ford, Gunnar, and Gary Jones, and JuJu Holifield wrapped up Camp Oma 2022 with an evening fishing trip on Lake Belton, landing 49 fish on a hot Texas summer night.

 

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Wednesday, 20 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

Summer evening fishing on Belton is typically consolidated into the last 2 to 2.5 hours prior to sunset, and then the short span of time between sunset and nightfall.   Knowing this from 30+ years of fishing Lake Belton, we planned to begin our trip around 5:30 PM instead of running a full 4-hour trip only to experience ‘hot fishlessness’ for the first hour or so.

We got lines in the water around 5:55PM, and started off downrigging.  As the white bass “work up” into a feeding mode, a low percentage of them will begin patrolling earlier than the vast majority.  Call these the “early bloomers”.  Using downriggers, we were able to present multiple (6) baits to many fish in an effort to “strain out” those few fish which were already in a feeding mode.

We downrigged for about 30 minutes and then, seeing that the fish were becoming more aggressive and more abundant in the area we were working, switched over to using MAL Dense Lures (chartreuse tails) fished vertically with a smoking tactic while the kids watched their presentations on Garmin LiveScope.  We had 12 fish in the boat before we made that transition, and landed another 11 fish going vertical.  Once this area played out, we moved on.

The last move of the evening was to a deep flat where we found fish suspended from 20-25 feet deep over a deeper bottom.  This scenario just screamed for a downrigging approach.  By now, the kids were getting really fast and confident in setting up the downriggers and so we were more efficient now.  As we made a “circuit” here, we picked up singles and doubles routinely until sunset, adding another 23 fish to our tally

At sunset, I moved us up into shallow water hoping to intercept white bass moving up shallow to do their final feed before dark.  We Spot-Locked in an area with strong potential and had four large schools pass directly under us, allowing for a final 3 fish to be landed before Gary gave the “let’s wrap it up” signal and we made our way back.

I observed some very light shallow water activity as small schools of whites popped up and then disappeared, but, nothing at all like the strong topwater action the mornings have been featuring.

Our tally was 49 fish, including 2 short hybrid, and 47 white bass (with 3 shorts).

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  49 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS:  A light topwater feed could be observed very briefly just before dark (between sunset and nightfall), but that paled in comparison to the morning topwater bite.

WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 5:40P

End Time:  8:45P

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 103F

Elevation: 6.75 feet low,  0.08’ fall in last 24 hours, 89 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 86.8F

Wind Speed & Direction:  S10-12 all evening

Sky Condition: Cloudless skies with just a bit of high, thin haze

Moon Phase: Last quarter moon at 51% illumination.

GT = 260

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Areas 1404 to B0030G – downrigging leading to smoking

Area B0197C to B0098G – downrigging leading to a brief, final bout of smoking

 

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

Twitter: www.twitter.com/bobmaindelle

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STILL ON TOP!! – 124 FISH @ BELTON

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This morning, Wednesday, July 20th, I fished with Morgan’s Point Resort resident Max Jordan and his grandkids, 18-year-old Dindy Brown, and 15-year-old Houston Brown.

With very stable, high-pressure weather firmly entrenched over Texas, I bet that the topwater would turn on once again today, and that turned out to be a good wager.

Here is how the fishing went …

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PHOTO CAPTION:  From left:  Dindy Brown, her grandfather, Max Jordan, and Houston Brown with a sampling of the white bass we took on topwater early, and with vertical and horizontal tactics later in the morning.  This crew boated 124 fish in just under 3 hours and then got off the water before it got truly hot.

PHOTO CAPTION: When the bait was mature, like this threadfin shad which was regurgitated by one of the white bass we caught, the fishing was easier than when the white bass were keyed in on smaller, ~1.25″ young-of-the-year shad.  Note that “yellow tail” on both lure and shad  — not as brilliant as during the spawn, but present nonetheless.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Wednesday, 20 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

The easy fishing, fueled by a strong topwater bite, continued on Lake Belton today.  Right at sunrise, smaller white bass began herding young-of-the-year shad to the surface and feeding on them aggressively.

These fish were a bit harder to fool than those we would find later in the morning, which we feeding on mature shad.  To overcome the challenge, I directed my crew to consider before each cast where the “center of mass” of the fish was located, lob a cast over top of that action, and bring the lure back through as many fish as possible.  In doing so, even if only 1 fish in 25 or 30 would fall for the bait (a modified MAL Original with 1 treble tine snipped off and the remaining 2 barbs mashed down), they’d still get bit nearly every time by bringing it through, literally, hundreds of fish.

We sighted our first school of fish at 6:47 AM.  By 7:55 AM, the majority of the topwater action was over, and Dindy and Houston had boated exactly 60 fish as their grandfather and I just sat back, unhooked fish, and encouraged the two of them.

After the fish left the surface, I did some downrigging in the same general vicinity, but the fish were uninterested.  I left this area, relocated, and, as I ran SI, DI, and 2D sonar searching for evidence, we were fortunate to happen upon a large group of bottom-oriented fish which would keep us in business until my crew called it quits early, at around 9:30 A.M.

Upon spotting these fish, I Spot-Locked atop of them, and, aided by Garmin LiveScope, we worked MAL Dense Lures (chartreuse tails) vertically using a smoking tactic.  We put exactly 42 additional fish in the boat in this manner with all three of my anglers now participating.

I encouraged Max to chip in on this, because the commotion caused by a third angler working his MAL and the catching and releasing of fish which resulted from his success would continue to keep the school we’d located fired up more so than with just 2 anglers working at it.

When the vertical action slowed, I gave some quick guidance on using the “sawtooth method”, and directed everyone to cast out to the port side (deeper side) of the boat where, over the time we’d been on Spot-Lock, I’d witnessed numerous schools of fish pass through.

Everyone did their part and we added another 20 fish to the count before Max suggested we wrap up a bit early as the Texas sun began to pour on the heat.

I suggested, since we never did get to witness a fish caught by downrigger earlier, and since Max had expressed interest in it, that we close out the trip with a brief round of downrigging.  We made two quick passes over the exact area we’d been fishing the MALs horizontally atop of, and took one fish on each pass.  The downrigger (I only ran one for this “demo”) was equipped with a 3-armed umbrella rig to which I’d attached Pet Spoons.

Our tally today was 124 fish, including 1 largemouth bass, 5 short hybrid, and 118 white bass (with only 2 shorts).

OTHER NOTES: 1) Unfortunately, the down-side of topwater action is the “boat show” that can quickly develop with folks cutting their nose off despite their face by motoring into or near the fish and/or chasing the fish with a trolling motor.  Be smart — get ahead of the fish and drift to them and through them.  2) Long casts help you avoid spooking the fish and keep the fish on top longer.

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  124 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS:  This was the fourth solid episode of topwater I’ve observed under our current high-pressure weather.  The times and durations vary, but no topwater has gone beyond ~10:25AM.  Temperature profile was as follows:

0 feet 85F
5 feet 85.3F
10 feet 85.6F
15 feet 85.6F
20 feet 85.5F
25 feet 84.7F
30 feet 81.1F
35 feet 78.1F
40 feet 73.8F
45 feet 68.1F
50 feet 64.1F
55 feet 62.4F
60 feet 61.9F

WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 6:35A

End Time:  9:25A

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 80F

Elevation: 6.75 feet low,  0.08’ fall in last 24 hours, 89 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 85.0F

Wind Speed & Direction:  S10-12 all morning

Sky Condition: Cloudless skies with just a bit of high, thin haze

Moon Phase: Last quarter moon at 51% illumination.

GT = 20

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Areas 011 to 210, then 813 to 1787 for ~90 minutes of topwater action

Area vic 905 for bottom-oriented fish taken on MAL Dense lures vertically and horizontally

 

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

Twitter: www.twitter.com/bobmaindelle

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JUST FOR A SOLDIER’S DAUGHTER — 40 FISH @ STILLHOUSE

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This morning, Tuesday, July 19th, I conducted the seventh Soldiers’ Kids Involved in Fishing Fun (SKIFF) trip of the 2022 season.

I welcomed aboard 8-year-old Kristyn Torres-Smith, and her mom, Erica.

Kristyn’s dad, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Jason Torres-Smith, has served in the military for 10 years.  He has been deployed from Fort Hood since February of this year, serving as a truck driver.

ABOUT SKIFF:  This fishing trip was provided to this military family at no charge.  S.K.I.F.F. stands for Soldiers’ Kids Involved in Fishing Fun.  This program began in May of 2009.  It is funded by the donations and fundraising efforts of the Austin Fly Fishers and other organizations they have partnered with.  S.K.I.F.F. provides the children of military personnel separated from their families due to duty commitments with the opportunity to go fishing.  SKIFF trips are also provided, free of charge, to Gold Star families who have lost their service member while he or she was on active duty.  In mid-2019, SKIFF also began providing trips to dependents whose parents are bona fide disabled veterans.  I coordinate and conduct these 3.5 to 4 hour adventures on Belton Lake and Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir, just outside the gates of Fort Hood in Bell County, TX, year ’round.  Call or text 254.368.7411.

My next open date for a free SKIFF trip for qualifying families will be on August 23rd.

Here is how the fishing went …

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PHOTO CAPTION:  Meet 8-year-old Kristyn Torres-Smith!  She singlehandedly landed 40 fish in the “cool” of the morning on Stillhouse Hollow.

WHERE WE FISHED: Stillhouse Hollow

WHEN WE FISHED: Tuesday, 19 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

Since Kristyn was just 8 years of age, had never been on a boat before, and had very limited prior fishing experience, I opted to head to Stillhouse Hollow, despite very good results on Lake Belton yesterday.   I did this for several reasons.  First, I felt I could best help Kristyn catch white bass without requiring her to cast by fishing on Stillhouse, and, second, I felt Stillhouse would offer better variety in the form of fishing for sunfish if/when the novelty of catching white bass wore thin.

We began our day searching out heavily congregated white bass in deep water, and found them primarily with down-imaging in three distinct locations in 42 feet of water, 48 feet of water, and 36 feet of water.  At each of these locations, I stood side-by-side with Kristyn as we both looked at the Garmin LiveScope monitor before us, and gave her a real-time example of what she needed to do to catch fish by “smoking” an MAL Dense Lure (w/ chartreuse tail) up off the bottom using spinning tackle.

Fortunately, she found this engaging (not all kids do!), and she was able to keep a fast, smooth rhythm which was effective at drawing strikes from the fish we’d found.  Kristyn landed exactly 25 white bass in this way in about a 2-hour span.

Next, I introduced Kristyn to downrigging and let her know right from the start that our goal would be to land more than one fish at a time on the 3-armed umbrella rigs equipped with Pet Spoons.  Over the next 45 minutes, we landed 9 more fish by way of downrigging, including two “doubles” — where we caught two fish at a time on the umbrellas.

The last chapter of our morning was written up shallow.  We spent about a half-hour in the vast tangle of hydrilla which now lies matted around the lake’s perimeter.  We presented live bait under a slipfloat to sunfish, landing 6 before calling it a great morning and heading back in.

The smoking tactic we used is demonstrated here (skip to 2:26): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDSvfXgrAUE

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  40 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS:  A high pressure “dome” is solidly set up over Texas which, according to meteorologists, will stay with us for the next ~9 days.  If history is any teacher, this bodes well for fishing.  Topwater schooling by largemouth bass continues.

 

 WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 6:45A

End Time:  10:05A

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 80F

Elevation: 6.78 feet low,  0.06’ fall in last 24 hours, 1 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 85.2F

Wind Speed & Direction:  SSW9-13

Sky Condition: Cloudless skies with just a bit of haze and Saharan dust

Moon Phase: Waning gibbous moon at 61% illumination.

GT = N/A

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Areas SH0030G, SH0032G, 867 – smoking MAL Dense Lures for 25 fish

Area 867 to 878 downrigging for 9 fish

Area SH0121C – sunfishing for 6 fish

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

Twitter: www.twitter.com/bobmaindelle

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ALL TOPWATER, ALL MORNING! -135 FISH @ BELTON

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This morning, Monday, July 18th, I fished with Pastor Alan McGrath, his wife, Traci, and their two boys, Pax (age 15) and Beckett (age 12).

Alan now leads the congregation of the First United Methodist Church in Georgetown, TX.  As he transitioned from his previous assignment in Killeen, one of his congregants, Mrs. Bobbie Morrison, presented him with a fishing gift certificate as a departure gift.  Today was the day the McGraths decided to redeem it.

Here is how the fishing went …

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PHOTO CAPTION:  From left:  Traci, Alan, Pax, and Beckett McGrath cashed in on what was the 2022 Summer Season’s best run of topwater action to date.   With “cookie-cutter” high-pressure weather ahead of us for the foreseeable future, I’m very hopeful the topwater action will continue.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Monday, 18 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

This will be a pretty short summary.  Here it goes …  All topwater, all morning.  That’s it!

With a classic Texas summer high pressure system sitting right on top of us, no other weather can currently influence the hot, dry conditions we have in place now and for the next 10 days or so.

When this happens, the door opens for topwater action, and, this morning, the fish walked right through it.

I had line of sight contact with schools of white bass corralling shad to the surface 100% of the time from before sunup and until they quit at about 10:20AM.

None of the McGraths had used spinning gear before, so, we worked through a bit of a learning curve to overcome this, but, before long, everyone was making long, smooth, accurate casts and pulling fish in at a steady clip.

Right at the very start of the morning we were on a bunch of fish feeding on young-of-the-year shad.  Between the fish being focused on this tiny bait, and my crew’s inexperience with spinning reels, I pulled off of the surface feeders for a while after we’d landed 10 fish by sight-casting, and ran downriggers instead until we found fish feeding on larger bait.  We took numerous doubles and singles, and everyone demonstrated great teamwork getting the rigs back out after we boated a fish.  We took 18 fish on the downriggers.

During this time, we also found one large pod of fish holding on bottom in about 27′.  We worked MAL Dense Lures vertically for these fish, catching 7 before they wandered off.

From that point on, it was all sight-casting to topwater white bass feeding on 3″ shad.

One of the big keys to our success was getting ahead of schools of fish and drifting toward them and through them.  Those boats insisting on chasing them with the trolling motor or outboard did rather poorly as the fish spooked easily.

Because most of the fish were feeding on mature shad, we used the MAL Original.  This is the lightest MAL Lure, and does not sink below the fish too quickly.  I modify my MAL Originals for topwater by clipping one of the three treble hook tines off, and mashing the barb down on the two remaining tines.  This makes for super-fast releases, and allows us to “make hay while the sun shines” by catching and releasing as many fish as we can while the opportunity presents itself.

Our tally today was 135 fish, including 1 short hybrid, and 134 white bass.

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  135 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS:  Got to give a big “shout out” to Roger and Kody Heinze for “sportsmanlike conduct”.  These fellows saw the topwater fish I was on, and also saw that I had kids aboard.  Instead of “horning in” on the fish I’d found, they courteously moved on by, found their own fish, and did well.  Thanks, fellows, for being considerate!

 WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 6:45A

End Time:  10:35A

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 80F

Elevation: 6.60 feet low,  0.06’ fall in last 24 hours, 89 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 86.9F

Wind Speed & Direction:  S7-9 all morning

Sky Condition: Cloudless skies with just a bit of haze and Saharan dust

Moon Phase: Waning gibbous moon at 72% illumination.

GT = 40

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Areas 1608 thru B02021G – topwater, downrigging, and smoking for white feeding on YOY shad

Areas B0206G to 1548 to 1280 – all sight-casting to topwater whites with MAL Originals

 

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

Twitter: www.twitter.com/bobmaindelle

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MILITARY KIDS FISH FOR FREE (SKIFF PROGRAM) — 70 FISH @ BELTON

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This morning, Tuesday, July 12th, I conducted the sixth Soldiers’ Kids Involved in Fishing Fun (SKIFF) trip of the 2022 season.

Joining me was Mrs. Serena Flatt and her six-year-old daugther, Sofia.

We also had an unexpected guest this morning — U.S. Army Corporal Travis Flatt!  Travis literally just returned from his most recent of two deployments to Iraq during his 5-year military career as a drone operator.

When Serena planned this trip for her daughter, she knew Travis would be reaching the end of his deployment, but, for security’s sake, exact dates are rarely revealed.

Since both Serena and Travis chose to get fishing licenses, they were able to be very “hands-on” and helped me help Sofia be successful.

ABOUT SKIFF:  This fishing trip was provided to this military family at no charge.  S.K.I.F.F. stands for Soldiers’ Kids Involved in Fishing Fun.  This program began in May of 2009.  It is funded by the donations and fundraising efforts of the Austin Fly Fishers and other organizations they have partnered with.  S.K.I.F.F. provides the children of military personnel separated from their families due to duty commitments with the opportunity to go fishing.  SKIFF trips are also provided, free of charge, to Gold Star families who have lost their service member while he or she was on active duty.  In mid-2019, SKIFF also began providing trips to dependents whose parents are bona fide disabled veterans.  I coordinate and conduct these 3.5 to 4 hour adventures on Belton Lake and Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir, just outside the gates of Fort Hood in Bell County, TX, year ’round.  Call or text 254.368.7411.

My next open date for a free SKIFF trip for qualifying families will be on August 11th.

Here is how the fishing went …

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PHOTO CAPTION:  From left:   Serena Flatt, her daughter, Sofia Lumaye, and U.S. Army Corporal Travis Flatt celebrating Travis’ return home from his most recent of two tours to Iraq as a drone operator.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Tuesday, 12 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

As we launched right at sunrise, we found ourselves in the midst of a days-long “Excessive Heat Warning” issued by the National Weather Service.  Indeed, it was hot, but, thankfully, there was a light breeze all morning which kept it tolerable until about 10:30A.

Over the course of the morning, Sofia would manage to catch 7 species of fish in her 70 fish total.

We began the morning downrigging, catching 17 white bass, a hybrid striped bass, a freshwater drum, and a largemouth bass.  We’d landed a total of 20 fish using 3-armed umbrella rigs equipped with Pet Spoons on the downriggers before I suggested we take a boat ride to go shoot for sunfish up in shallow water.  Somewhere in the midst of all of this fish catching, Sofia braved up and held one of the fish she caught in order to release it in healthy condition.

We found a shallow, rocky area which held an abundance of sunfish and used a pole with a slip-float to present small baits to these aggressive fish in under 4 feet of water.  Sofia quickly got the hang of placing her rig (using what is much like a fly-fishing roll cast) accurately, and it was game-on from that point.  Sofia went on to land 21 sunfish, including bluegill, green, and longear sunfish.  Sofia also tried her hand at baiting a hook for the first time, and got better with each attempt.

We closed out our trip by heading back out to open water to search for white bass.  I had noted a lot of topwater action over the course of the morning, but, every school I spotted stayed up for only seconds — just not enough time to crank up, run to them, slow down, cast, and retrieve.  But, as we downrigged on this go-round (between 9:30 and 10:30A), I noted even more schooling action and a few schools lingering at the top for what I thought would be enough time for us to approach them and present lures to them.

After landing another 4 fish on the downriggers, I headed to one of these lingering topwater schools and that turned out to be a good call.  After we got to the vicinity of that particular school, multiple schools of fish began to feed on the surface in all directions.  We witnessed a 45-minute long frenzy which allowed Travis and I to zing MAL Dense Lures out over top of these schools, crank the lures back through the fish, hook up, and then allow Sofia to reel in fish after fish until she was tired.

Sofia battled exactly 25 white bass back to the boat during this frenzy, taking her 4-hour catch up to a final 70 fish.  The fish quit very suddenly right around 10:25, for no apparent reason  — no boat ran through them, no cloud cover increased or decreased, no wind started or stopped — they just quit.

Sofia’s 70 fish catch included exactly 45 white bass, 1 hybrid striper, 1 largemouth bass, 1 freshwater drum, 6 green sunfish, 1 longear sunfish, and 14 bluegill sunfish.

As we arrived back at the dock, there was another surprise awaiting us.  Mrs. Maria Tolleson of the Sun City chapter of Women Helping Others (WHO), escorted by her husband, stopped by in-person to present the SKIFF program with a handsome donation to help keep the program strong.  She got to see the dividends of her investment as she met the Flatts and heard Sofia excitedly tell about all the fish she caught.

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  70 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS: Here was the water temperature profile:

0 feet 87.9F
5 feet 88.5F
10 feet 88.5F
15 feet 87.2F
20 feet 85.6F
25 feet 84.3F
30 feet 83.3F
35 feet 79.9F
40 feet 73.4F
45 feet 68.5F
50 feet 65.3F
55 feet 63.1F
60 feet 61.9F

 

 WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 6:45A

End Time:  10:25A

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 80F

Elevation: 6.24 feet low,  0.06’ fall in last 24 hours, 89 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 87.9F

Wind Speed & Direction:  SW3-5 then shifting to NE3-5 around 9A

Sky Condition: ~10% white cloud cover on a blue sky

Moon Phase: Waxing gibbous moon at 98% illumination.

GT = N/A

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Areas B0201G to 1974 to B0077G – early downrigging

Area 1583 – sunfishing

Area vic B0040G – downrigging leading to topwater action

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

Twitter: www.twitter.com/bobmaindelle

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SWEATIN’ THRU OUR CLOTHES BY 7:30AM! — 107 FISH ON MAL DENSE LURES

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This morning, Monday, July 11th, I fished with Mr. Clint Butler of Rockdale, TX, accompanied by his two children, Caylee (age 8) and Case (age 5), and by his father-in-law, Richard Pivonka, of Caldwell.

Clint seriously pursues white bass on his own, primarily on Lake Somerville, and primarily by trolling with Jet-Diver-like devices to get spoons down to where the fish are.

In addition to spending some vacation time with his kids, Clint also hoped to nail down some lessons on the summer tactics I employ.  To that end, I planned the trip such that we’d do at least a little downrigging, vertical MAL work, and horizontal MAL work.

Here is how the fishing went …

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My next openings will be on August 23rd, 24th, and 25th.  Weekday mornings are always best.  Saturdays are available for on-the-water sonar training sessions (only) until after Labor Day when I’ll again offer Saturday morning fishing trips (until mid-March 2023).

 

PHOTO CAPTION:  From left:  Clint, Caylee, and Case Butler, and Richard “Poppy” Pivonka with a few of the 107 fish they landed this morning using vertical and horizontal tactics.

 

WHERE WE FISHED: Stillhouse Hollow

WHEN WE FISHED: Monday, 11 July 2022

HOW WE FISHED:

I’ll be honest … the lack of wind had me a little spooked this morning.  We had a mild cold front shift our winds to the N. late Saturday, and the winds have been light and variable ever since.  There was just enough wind to ripple the surface most of the morning, and that was enough to get the fish in gear.

I found our first group of fish with down-imaging, stacked up near bottom in just over 40′ of water.  We stayed on these fish a full hour and took 30 fish during that time, even as the kids were working through the learning curve of using the MAL Dense vertically.  We all watched each “cycle” of reeling and dropping the MAL Lures to bottom and cranking them up through the fish thanks to Garmin LiveScope technology.  I positioned Clint and Case on the starboard stern unit, and Richard and Caylee on the forward starboard unit so everyone had a good view, as well as some elbow room.

Once this first group of fish shut down around 8A, we changed things up a bit and began to downrig, both to catch fish, and to figure our where larger, catchable groups of white bass were holding so we could capitalize on the information by ‘parking’ on those groups and fishing them vertically as long as they would tolerate it.  We did this several times over in ~32 feet of water, all in about a 300 yard radius, and added another 38 fish to our count.

A few times during this stop I witnessed patrolling schools of white bass out to our starboard side (which was facing toward shallower water).  I introduced Clint to the “sawtooth method” and soon, he was catching fish out horizontally with the MAL Dense while everyone else continued to catch while fishing vertically.

We did likewise at the third and final area we fished this morning, only these fish were in ~43 feet of water.  I was thinking at this point (around 10A) that the bite had softened enough that we’d likely only continue to catch fish on the downriggers as we “sifted” the few still-active fish out from amongst an increasingly disinterested population.  But, as I downrigged and watched sonar, I could clearly see entire schools of fish rising up off bottom expressing interest in the downrigger ball as it passed over.  Seeing this, I knew these fish were active enough to chase MAL Lures, so, we set up atop these fish and went vertical one final time, adding a final 39 fish to our count for a grand total of 107 fish.

We downrigged with 3-armed umbrella rigs equipped with Pet Spoons (#12, silver, white feather).

We fished vertically and horizontally with MAL Dense Lures with white bodies and chartreuse tails.

A complete description of the vertical “smoking:” method is found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDSvfXgrAUE

Our 107 fish catch was made up entirely of white bass, with only 1 short fish all morning.

The entire family of MAL Lures is found here: https://whitebasstools.com/

TALLY:  107 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS: Consistent topwater action could be seen from about 8A on as small “schoolie” largemouth chased small packs of shad to the surface and fed upon them there.  The near-calm surface aided in sighting this action.  Between the heat and humidity, this was the hottest trip I’ve fished thus far this summer.  The overnight temperatures only dropped to 80F, and the humidity made it extra-uncomfortable.

 

 WEATHER DATA:

Start Time: 6:45A

End Time:  10:45A

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 80F

Elevation: 6.29 feet low,  0.05’ fall in last 24 hours, 1 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp: 86.2F

Wind Speed & Direction:  Light and variable, under 4mph all morning, predominantly from the N.

Sky Condition: Cloudless, dry skies

Moon Phase: Waxing gibbous moon at 92% illumination.

GT = 95

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

Areas SH0032G/SH0031G (30 fish)

Area 1198 (38 fish)

Area SH0202G (39 fish)

 

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bobmaindelle

Twitter: www.twitter.com/bobmaindelle

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