Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Conditions:

Start Time: 6:45a

End Time: 12:10pm

Air Temp: 73F

Water Temp: 84.5F

Wind: Dead calm at trip’s start, with a light, humid SE breeze building by trip’s end to ~10mph

Skies: Skies were mostly clear under the influence of high pressure in the early morning, with up to 40% high, thin clouds building in by late morning which, combined with the breeze, kept things bearable.

I fished a ½ day morning trip with a wonderful senior couple, Dick and Barbara D. from the Austin area. Fishing was quite simple this morning. We downrigged the entire trip in the vicinity of Area 205 and within a 150 yard radius of it for the entire morning up until about 11am. For this effort we netted 43 fish including white bass, largemouth bass, and drum. The majority of the catch consisted of ~11 inch white bass with very few shorter and several longer. All fish came on lines run at roughly 24 feet over a deeper bottom and on Pet Spoons and Lunker Lickers. After introducing Dick and Barbara to the mechanics of downrigging, they were each able to completely rig their lines themselves which provided me with more time to watch sonar than usual, thus allowing us to really stay on top of the fish this morning.

At 11am we decided to try a little different technique just for variety’s sake, although the downrigging was still doing great. We baited up with live bait and made several tightline drifts from the SE to the NW into Area 17. We landed a total of 5 solid fish in the next hour including the largest white bass of the trip, a nice 15.5 inch fish, as well as a pair of 3.75 pound bass, and 2 smaller 16 inch largemouth.

TALLY = 48 FISH, all caught and released

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing

Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Conditions:

Start Time: 6:45a

End Time: 11:00a

Air Temp: 74F

Water Temp: 83.5F

Wind: Dead calm at trip’s start, with a light, humid SE breeze building by trip’s end to ~10mph

Skies: Skies were mostly clear under the influence of high pressure in the early morning, with clouds slowly building to ~75% by trip’s end. The afternoon saw light showers with grey skies.

I fished a ½ day Kids Fish, Too! trip with Bobby (dad) and Haley (daughter) H. of Temple.

We met at the ramp at 6:30a and got acquainted, went over some casting basics, and some safety basics and then turned to fishing.

We noted a hatch of small white flying insects right near the boat ramp on which the local bluegill were feeding heavily. A small #18 dry fly pattern in off white matched these insects perfectly. I introduced Haley to basic fly casting and she scored her first fish before we even left the dock! The hatch died off and we headed out to big water.

We looked over some deepwater areas and saw no strong bait or gamefish returns on sonar and so moved shallower. We encountered both shad and gamefish in between Areas 17 and 204 in 20-30 feet of water and decided on a downrigging approach at first. This netted us a 13″ largemouth and a 13″ white bass immediately. Two more fish later, as we were re-rigging to catch a fifth fish at this location, white bass began to churn the surface all around us. We pulled up the hardware and switched over to the cork rig and caught fish on top consistently for about an hour. After these fish quit on top, we continued to downrig and extended our catching for another 40 minutes or so with dual riggers out; one with Pet Spoon, the other with a silver and chartreuse Lunker Licker. Our tally up this point was 36 fish. This final stint of downrigging yielded a nice 2.25 pound white bass and a pending lake record drum weighing in at .875 pounds and 13.0″, both on the Pet Spoon. At this point in time, Haley was ready to experience a different technique, so we moved on, baited up and hunted sunfish.

At Area 195, we encountered solid sunfish action on the bream pole and quill bobber rig, adding 15 fish to the tally – 100% of the catch here was bluegill sunfish.

We attempted a drift on the SE breeze from Area 59 into the shoreline with livebait on tightlines. This did not produce and didn’t keep Haley’s attention too well after snack time was complete, so we made the decision to give downrigging one last try for one final fish before we headed in.

At Area 199 our quest came to an end as a decent 14″ largemouth hit our downrigged offering. We ended the trip with big smiles, high-fives and lots of photos.

TALLY = 52 FISH, all gamefish caught and released

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing

Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Conditions:

Start Time: 6:15a

End Time: 11:30a

Air Temp: 71F

Water Temp: 84.6

Wind: Dead calm at trip’s start, with a variable SW breeze of 7 to 11mph steadily building through the morning

Skies: Skies were mostly clear under the influence of strong high pressure. Perhaps 10% white billowy clouds.

I fished a half day morning trip this morning with Charlotte M., a very nice lady and school nurse from northern Kentucky visiting relatives for the summer. Charlotte wasn’t picky about species so we used a combination of techniques to expose her to different means of catching fish this time of year, and targeted several species.

We first stopped at Area 555 before dawn and thus before the surface activity began. We fancast this area with bladebaits and came up with 1 largemouth and 1 drum. By sunrise we found ourselves in the middle of ample surface activity, but as has been the case lately, most all fish here were short. We used the cork rig to put 12 topwater fish in the boat by 8:00am.

We next headed just to the SW of Area 56 after spotting some light surface activity here. We started off slabbing because the chop on the water and the glare made spotting surface activity very difficult. We caught 2 largemouth, 1 white bass, 1 crappie, and 1 sunfish. We used the sunfish for bait and immediately took a 2.75 pound largemouth on it. We never found solid schools of suspended or bottom oriented white bass or largemouth here as I had hoped for and so we moved on.

We headed to the slope between Areas 176 and 187 and saw ample bait, but that bait was blanketing the bottom and not in balls or schools, indicating that they were not feeling threatened by predator fish. We slabbed for a while and managed 1 largemouth, 2 crappie, 1 sunfish, and 1 white bass, but, again, no schools of fish.

We then headed to Area 202 and fished the 25 foot knob here. Things really started to pick up as the wind hit it’s greatest velocity of the morning and this area took a direct hit from the wind. We caught 31 fish here including 1 crappie, 3 largemouth, and 27 white bass, all about 11 inches in length. We caught these fish right up on the top of the knob and to the SW down into 34 feet of water, on the windward side of the feature. This action eventually tapered off and we moved.

Our last stop of the day came at just to the ESE of Area 149 in 35-41 feet of water. Sonar showed fish strung in a horizontal band at 32 to 35 feet deep. We smoked slabs through these white bass and quickly added a dozen fish to the count, bringing the tally up to 67. This band dispersed and we went looking for more.

We again encountered fish, this time tight to the bottom, in about 27 feet of water at just S of Area 34. We again used slabs and managed 3 whites and 6 drum. As soon as we hit the drum, I knew the big feed was just about over, and, sure enough, the fishing didn’t last another 20 minutes before they were done for the morning.

Charlotte was a joy to fish with – and enjoyed the variety we put into the morning from fishing with bladebaits to topwater to tightlining with bait to slabbing.

TALLY = 76 FISH, all caught and released.

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing

Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Conditions:

Start Time: 6:30a

End Time: 8:40a

Air Temp: 71F

Water Temp: 83.5F

Wind: Dead calm at trip’s start, with a light SW breeze building by trip’s end

Skies: Skies were mostly clear under the influence of strong high pressure.

I fished a very short solo trip today just doing some scouting for topwater action for tomorrow’s trip.

First stopped at Area 555 and found ample surface activity, but most all fish here were short. Used the cork rig to put 27 fish in the boat by 7:45a. Of these only two were legal largemouth, and one was a just legal white bass.

Moved to Area 203 to see how the sunfish population looked. Due to the loss of hydrilla, there wasn’t much going on here. Managed 2 sunfish on the flyrod and left.

Moved to the SW of Area 56 after spotting some light surface activity here. Caught a few largemouth and a few whites here (which was a bit surprising given how bright it was at this point, just past 8:00a. I set out one tightline with livebait while working the area over with a slab. Managed a nice 3.25 pound largemouth on the livey and 2 short largemouth and a crappie on the slab.

TALLY = 37 FISH, all caught and released

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing

JUNE 2008 SUMMARY

30 JUNE = 31 FISH

27 JUNE = 100 FISH

23 JUNE = 80 FISH

20 JUNE = 54 FISH

19 JUNE = 66 FISH

16 JUNE = 129 FISH

12 JUNE = 82 FISH

09 JUNE = 62 FISH

06 JUNE = 89 FISH

05 JUNE = 69 FISH

03 JUNE = 52 FISH

TOTAL CATCH FOR JUNE 2008 = 814 FISH

AVERAGE CATCH PER TRIP = 74.0 FISH

Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Conditions:

Start Time: 5:50p

End Time: 9:15p

Air Temp: 93F at trip’s start

Water Temp: 85.5F

Wind: Dead calm at trip’s start, with a light ESE breeze pushing easy at first, then building to 8-9, then calming to 2-3 by sunset.

Skies: Skies were fair and getting clearer the entire trip under the influence of clearing low pressure and approaching high pressure.

I fished solo today and visited as many of the traditional mid-lake deep water summer haunts as time and conditions allowed to see where the fish were and were not on this part of the lake.

I noted fish and bait appearing in a very stratified fashion on sonar. The fish seemed to be holding in horizontal bands. From place to place the depth of the bands would vary by a few feet, but 25 to 32 feet consistently held both fish and bait.

The past two full days have been nearly flat calm, so I was excited when not minutes after leaving my first stop (vicinity of Area 139 to 141) without a nibble, a fair ENE breeze picked up. I don’t know how the fishing was doing beforehand, but as soon as I began checking areas on sonar, the fish were there in abundance.

My next stop was at Area 190. I fished here over 34-35 feet for fish holding in a horizontal band at 26-31 feet deep. Managed 16 white bass, 1 largemouth, and 1 drum on a ¼ oz. slab before the wind began to die and the action along with it.

I moved over to Area 145 and bagged two whites from right on top of the feature here, but the fish, although appearing regularly on sonar, were acting very sluggish.

Knowing this decrease in activity wasn’t boding well for a hot evening bite, I gave into the temptation to once again break out my new 2 weight fly rod. I don’t care if they’re 2 inches or 12 inches, when a sunfish comes up and sucks in a little dry fly or some other topwater presentation, there’s something neat about that. So, I spent some time working over some sunfish and ended up with 10 bluegill, some mature, some not.

Toward sunset, I looked over 2 areas hoping to see a little spurt of topwater, but none was to be found.

I ended the trip at Area 201 an managed to miss 3 solid fish (all largemouth, no doubt) on live bait, but put the 4th in the boat – a nice 3.75 pound fatty. All 4 of these fish came off the northside seam here.

TALLY = 31 FISH, all caught and released

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing

Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Conditions:

Start Time: 6:15a

End Time: 2:10p

Air Temp: 77F at trip’s start

Water Temp: 84.5F

Wind: Already pushing SE at 7-8mph at dawn, and steadily built to a peak of ~18mph by 9:30, with higher gusts kicking in more regularly as the air warmed.

Skies: Skies were clear and bright the entire trip under the influence of high pressure.

I fished solo today and visited as many of the traditional deep water summer haunts as time and conditions allowed to see if the fish are settled into their summer patterns a bit early due to the early summer conditions we’ve had. One very promising thing was that most every spot I searched (whether I fished or just looked with sonar) had abundant shad in the lower ¼ of the water column out to 42 feet.

The past several trips have afforded light winds and reliable early morning surface action with white bass feeding on juvenile shad. Of course this morning when I came geared up with my 2 weight fly rod, there was no surface action to be had! I settled for one small largemouth in Area 17 on topwater and then went looking elsewhere after stowing the flygear.

Next stop was at Area 222. Picked up one barely keeper largemouth on a slab spoon in 29 feet of water and moved on.

Next stop was between Areas 39 and 41. I found abundant white bass holding on the bottom here right at 8am. These fish were very aggressive and rose up off the bottom to meet the falling slab spoon, and raced after the spoon as I reeled it in if it did hit bottom. Stayed on these fish for over an hour and boated exactly 35 fish. This included 33 whites, of which not a single fish was short and with none exceeding 14.5 inches, as well as a 2.75 pound largemouth and a small drum. After about an hour things got quiet here.

Moved to Area 193/194 and immediately got into deep, schooled largemouth which behaved much as white bass do under deepwater conditions. I caught 3 largemouth, all 2-3 pound fish, and a drum. When I realized the quantity of big largemouth on this area, I headed out to collect some live bait and returned to fish this area again.

I gave the new 2 weight fly rod a workout and put 18 sunfish in the boat in short order out of Area 189 and then headed back to fish Area 193/194.

When I returned, I fished a tightline in a rod holder as I continued to vertical jig the slab. I wound up with 14 fish here including two 7.00 pound largemouth and a 4.25 pound largemouth (dated photo of me holding one of the 7’s and the 4.25 are in the Photo Gallery). The breakdown on the catch here was 12 largemouth, all legal, 2 large whites, and a small channel cat. Only 2 blacks and 2 whites came on the slab. The livey’s accounted for the rest.

Moved on to do a little downrigging and experiment with a Dipsey Diver while just moseying around looking at sonar. In the expanse between Areas 193/194 and Area 196, I managed 2 white bass and 3 largemouth bass, all suspended 3-4 feet off bottom, and all falling for a Pet Spoon.

I then checked out Area 197. Again, abundant shad showed over the entire area and gamefish were tight to the bottom beneath them. Picked up a single white on the downrigger as I checked the area over with sonar, then I buoyed and slabbed for 4 more white bass, 6 drum, and 1 nice 3 1/8 pound largemouth. These fish were somewhat reluctant, and, based on the presence of the drum, I’d say I got here after the main feed had taken place.

I then checked Area 198. Good shad, not much in the way of gamefish. Got a 2 pound largemouth out of 39 feet here on the downrigger.

I then checked Area 199. Right at the peak of the ridge here I picked up 2 whites and 1 largemouth on 3 consecutive downrigger passes. These fish were holding at the top of this feature at 36 feet.

At this point I’d boated 93 fish and still had the itch to fish with the 2 weight fly rod, so I headed out of the wind to Area 200 and put 7 more sunfish in the boat to finish the day with an even 100 fish.

TALLY = 100 FISH, all caught and released

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing

Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Conditions:

Start Time: 6:00a

End Time: 11:15a

Air Temp: 76F at trip’s start

Water Temp: 83.5F

Wind: Calm at dawn, then going light and variable for the duration of the morning. This lack of wind made things a little tough as the white bass and largemouth bass topwater action was minimal as a result.

Skies: Skies were fair and bright the entire trip under the influence of high pressure.

Fished a Kids Fish, Too! morning trip with John (dad) and Hunter (son) of Killeen, and Hunter’s buddy, Justin. The boys were both 8 years old, headed to 3rd grade. They were well-behaved, learned quickly, and did well.

After greetings, my short safety talk, and some basic instructions for the boys on casting with spinning gear accurately, we headed out.

We first visited Area 160 looking for pre/post dawn white bass action on topwater and were not disappointed. We were only on site a few minutes before the first topwater appeared and the boys went to down looking for targets, casting, and retrieving. Although the action lasted about 90 minutes (thanks to a cloudbank to the east which obscured the sun for a while), we only experienced light topwater feeding. Most fish were in pods of 2-5 fish and didn’t stay on top long. As accurate as the boys were, they often were too slow in getting the retrieve going while fish were still near the surface. Nonetheless, we boated 8 fish including 6 white bass and 2 largemouth before the topwater died here.

Next we headed to between Area 61 and Area 222 and noted fair surface feeding beginning. We stayed on top of these surface feeding fish for about an hour. During this time we caught and released 6 largemouth bass. This action was also fairly week due to the super-calm conditions.

We changed up our equipment and headed over to Area 195 and enjoyed an hour plus of steady sunfish action on simple bobber rigs. The boys managed 66 sunfish including both mature and immature bluegill, as well as one longear sunfish. We kept 6 of the smaller specimens to use a livebait for largemouth to close out our trip with a shot at a big one.

We made one final stop at between Areas 61 and 62 at the 25-28 foot range. We encountered blanketing-type shad, not balled up shad, and disinterested gamefish within 2-3 feet of bottom. We had 2 strikes on the sunfish baits resulting in one missed hookup. At 11:15 with the skies heating up, the wind dead calm, and no birds, bait, or fish doing anything, we called it a good trip and headed in as the boys asked “When can we go again?” Dad commented, “I think we hooked more than fish on this trip.”

TALLY = 80 FISH, all caught and released

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing

Belton Lake Fishing Report by Belton Lake Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Fished a half-day afternoon trip on Belton today with Mike M. of Salado. Mike owns the 3 area Cotton Patch Café restaurants in Central Texas and received a birthday gift certificate from his wife earlier in the year. His main goal was to learn effective techniques he could duplicate when fishing with family and friends. By trip’s end, I’d introduced him to slabbing, downrigging, live shad tight lining, topwater fishing and working a bladebait in shallow water.

Conditions:

Start Time: 3:45p

End Time: 9:15p

Air Temp: 92 at trip’s start, slowly cooling to the mid 80’s by trip’s end

Water Temp: 83.5F

Wind: Light and variable the entire trip following a brief disturbance in the weather pattern which came through the area yesterday morning. That disturbance brought a strong N. breeze during the day, and about ¾” of rain with light thunderstorms overnight.

Skies: Skies began heavy grey and cloudy in the morning following an overnight rain, but had cleared to bright and clear with increasing pressure by sunset.

We fished only 3 areas this afternoon, and found solid fishing at 2 of these.

At Area 192, we identified suspended schools of white bass and hybrids holding in a narrow band at 32 to 35 feet deep over a deeper bottom. This begged for a downrigging approach and that’s what we when with. We started with small presentations and in the end did consistently better with them, but also caught fish on larger presentations, as well. The #13 Pet Spoon was the best performer, with the Lunker Licker doing well, and the Swimmin’ Image accounting for only one fish, albeit the largest hybrid (on the largest bait) taken in this area. The fishing was pretty simple once we found the fish. We did occasionally stop to vertical jig for fish when large schools were seen on sonar close to bottom, but we did poorly with this approach, with only 2 largemouth (about 2.75 pounds each) to show for that effort. We left this area around 7p with 24 fish boated including 2 keeper hybrid, 3 short hybrid, 2 largemouth bass, and 19 white bass ranging from short to 14 inches, with most 11-12 inches.

We next headed to the vicinity of Area 171 and began fishing in 31 feet of water with 2 live shad rigs tracked on sonar. We started here as sonar showed both gamefish and bait in the vicinity with gamefish on or near bottom and bait balled up. We slowly moved shallower as the light faded, and did best in 19-21 feet when all was said and done. As is typical of live shad fishing, we caught fewer fish but of better quality as compared to fishing with the artificals. We landed a nice 15.5″ white bass, a 4 pound hybrid, and a 3 pound largemouth with this tactic.

As sunset approached, topwater feeding fish began to dapple the surface, and we switched over to topwater and bladebaits. We fished until seeing light was gone and put an additional 27 fish in the boat including 2 short hybrids and 25 white bass ranging from 9 to 13 inches.

Enjoyed a boat-to-boat chat with Mr. James Harper, rodbuilder, reel repairman , catfisherman, and Temple PD detective, of Heidenheimer … seemed like a real nice fellow. Following that we headed in and packed it up.

TALLY= 54 FISH, all caught and released.

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing

Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Report by Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Bob Maindelle

Conditions:

Start Time: 6:00a

End Time: 12:20p

Air Temp: 74F at trip’s start

Water Temp: 84.0 F

Wind: Light puffs from the NE at dawn, then going light and variable until around 10:15, then coming on hard from the N at 18-20 on the lead edge of a disturbance, then settling out to ESE at 7-8 on slowly clearing skies

Skies: Red skies at sunrise warned of turbulent weather ahead. Skies were greyed over but bright until the disturbance passed over, at which time the skies went grey and dark with rain threatening but never falling. Skies then went grey and bright and slowly cleared after that passed.

Fished a half-day morning trip with Craig and Susan M. of Killeen. Craig serves as the Ellison High School baseball coach and a football coach; Susan is a teacher at Harker Heights Elementary.

After greetings, my short safety talk and some basic instructions for Susan on casting with spinning gear we headed out.

We slowly motored around the general vicinity of Area 555 and today only spotted occasional single largemouth bass popping shad on top; no schools of white bass were witnessed here at all. After spending about an hour in and around here hoping some schooling would develop, we headed downlake after only putting two small largemouth in the boat on the cork rig.

We made a quick look-listen stop at Area 191 but didn’t see much here – a couple small, single largemouth on top – so we moved on.

We made our next stop along the centerline just E. of Area 160. As we motored slowly, schools of white bass were seen feeding on the surface here. We eased up on these with the trolling motor and began working these over with the Cork Rig. These schools were feeding on very small ¾ to 7/8 inch long juvenile shad and were a little reluctant to hit the flies we presented behind the cork. Nonetheless, by the time the topwater action faded we had put 9 in the boat, most right at the 11 inch mark.

Next we headed to between Area 61 and Area 222 and noted fair surface feeding beginning. We stayed on top of these surface feeding fish for about an hour. During this time we caught and released 26 largemouth bass. At around 9:45a a dark cloud bank which had been slowly moving from N to S moved right over us and brought with it a wind shift to the N at 15-18 mph. This killed the topwater fishing as the fish responded negatively to this weather change. We hooked up the downriggers and fished through this general area looking at sonar the entire time. We wound up with 1 small white bass and 1 small largemouth in about 25 minutes of effort and decided to move on.

We made a stop at Area 186 after I searched the breakline here with sonar. Sonar returns were so-so with a few gamefish and some scattered shad showing. We vertical jigged for a little while with 3 drum and 1 white bass to show for the effort.

We made one final stop at Area135 and the stretch of water to the WNW of it. I was actually searching for congregated white bass here. What we found instead was a lot of bait and a good number of schools of smallish largemouth surface feeding here. The activity increased as the N breeze slowly shifted ESE and the skies brightened. We used the Cork Rig here and managed to boat another 23 largemouth in the boat before the skies cleared totally and the fish quit.

TALLY = 66 FISH, all caught and released

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing