WHO I FISHED WITH:   This past Friday morning, 22 June, I was joined by the Short family.  Mr. Brett Short and his wife, Kristi, of Newman, California, traveled to central Texas to visit their son, Mike, who lives in Killeen, and their daughter who lives in Temple.  Brett is in law enforcement in Newman, a town of about 10,000 people east of San Jose and south of Modesto.  Kristi works in the HR field for a rehab center, and Mike is a certified mechanic employed at Precision Tune in Killeen.  Brett and Kristi have their own boat but typically pursue largemouth in the deep reservoirs near their home.

 

From left: Mike, Kristi, and Brett with a few of the 53 fish we landed this morning.  With high pressure back in control of our weather, the fishing is back to “summertime tough”, which simply meant we had to get out there and work for our fish.  They were catchable, just not uber-enthusiastic.

 

WHAT WE FISHED FOR:  This was a multi-species trip in which we caught white bass, largemouth, and drum.

WHERE WE FISHED: Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir

WHEN WE FISHED: Friday morning, 22 June.

HOW WE FISHED:  As is typical for summertime fishing with the thermocline in place, we downrigged for a majority of our time and, on occasions when we found a concentration of fish in a small, well-defined area, we vertically jigged with tailspinners.  We enjoyed 3 such instances on this trip, with the last being our most productive, giving up about 15 of our 53 fish in the span of just a few minutes.

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES:   The most active fish we found today were found with sonar after I began searching where surface feeding white bass and largemouth revealed the location of more action below.

TALLY: 53 FISH, ALL CAUGHT AND RELEASED 

 

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:30a

End Time: 11:00a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 74F

Water Surface Temp:  82.6F

Wind Speed & Direction:   A light S breeze at 6-9 blew the entire trip.

Sky Conditions: 50% white cloud cover on a blue sky

Water Level: 5.40 feet low

GT = 40

Wx SNAPSHOT:     

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area  1395 to 854 – downrigging

**Area vic 931 – downrigging

**Area 495-SH0034C – downrigging

**Area 1496-1960 – downrigging and tailspinners in 3 separate short hops in vicinity of surface feeding

 

 

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

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