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

Wx SNAPSHOT:

 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

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

**Area 1970-453 – mid-morning downrigging

**Area 1416 – sunfishing

 

Bob Maindelle

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

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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

Wx SNAPSHOT:

 

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

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

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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

Wx SNAPSHOT:

 

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

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

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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

Wx SNAPSHOT:

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

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

254.368.7411 (call or text)

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This past Wednesday evening, July 19th, I fished with “grandpa” Ernie Degenhardt and three of his grandsons – – 13 year old Dylan Degenhardt, 11 year old Drake Degenhardt, and 6 year old Noah Voorhies. Dylan and Drake are brothers from Temple, Texas, and Noah is a cousin to the boys, living in the Dallas area.

 

Dylan Degenhardt with one of the larger white bass we downrigged for this afternoon.

Drake Degenhardt with his best white bass of the trip.

From left: Drake, Grandpa Ernie, and 6-year-old Noah with white bass landed simultaneously on our pair of downriggers.
Although it was a bit against my better judgment to fish with a group which included a child as young as Noah on a Texas summer afternoon, Ernie’s “window” to have all three grandsons was quite limited, so we made a go of it.

Ernie, a Vietnam-era veteran, retired from the U.S. Army after 33 years in the medical field and recently moved to the Temple, TX, area to be near grandkids.

Since this was a “Kids Fish, Too!” trip, it lasted for 3.5 hours versus a full-length 4+ hour outing. Our best results came in the first two hours as we downrigged for loosely congregated white bass spread over a 200 yard area.

Although I did find a few situations where we were able to work slabs vertically, the fish were not schooled heavily and our results using the “smoking” technique which has been so successful of late in the mornings just did not produce as well.  We picked up 3 drum and 2 white bass fishing vertically, and missed a few more whites and a single largemouth which got off on the jump at boatside.

I noted that we saw no topwater action at all this afternoon.

When all was said and done we had managed to put 43 fish in the boat with just a handful of other fish missed.

Our catch included exactly 40 white bass and three freshwater drum.

TALLY: 43 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 5:15p

End Time: 8:45p

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 97F

Water Surface Temp: 90F

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

Sky Conditions: 30% cloud cover

Water Level: 0.22 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 40

Wx SNAPSHOT:

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 1150 to 1198 and 329 to 033 –  all fish caught downrigging for scattered groups of 2-5 fish

Bob Maindelle

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

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This morning, Wednesday, July 19th, I fished the 9th “SKIFF” program trip of the 2017 season on Stillhouse, welcoming aboard 12-year-old Logan Allred.

 

Logan Allred with one of the 100 fish we landed together today including white bass, largemouth bass, and freshwater drum.  We used a variety of tactics including downrigging, vertical jigging, and sight casting.

Logan’s step-dad, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Chesworth, is a US Army Apache helicopter pilot with 15 years of military service.  He’s currently away from home participating in recurring gunnery training.

It was a real joy to have Logan aboard.  He is very experienced for his age and very capably handled a spinning outfit, throwing both far and accurately.  He had done a good bit of fishing in Utah for several species of trout using a variety of tactics, including icefishing, which is not unlike the vertical jigging we would use for white bass on this trip.  Logan’s abilities let us take advantage of “sharpshooting” for individual largemouth bass seen feeding on the surface which is something I often am not able to do even with adult clients.

We downrigged only long enough to catch one white bass on each of the downriggers before the sonar began lighting up with fish that were suspended about a third of the way up off bottom.  I put the boat in a hover using the Spot Lock function on the Ulterra, and we went to work using a smoking tactic with the “old reliable” white 3/4 oz. Redneck 180 slab with Hazy Eye Stinger hooks attached.  We worked over the white bass for a while until the sun had risen and brightened the sky sufficiently to get the largemouth popping on top.

We experimented with several shad imitations before finding just the right lure for the situation.  Once we locked onto that solution, we could count on hooking a largemouth on 4 out of every 5 accurate, timely casts.

Things quieted down a bit around 9:15 with our tally at 79 fish.  I told Logan we’d really have to buckle down and make every fish count if we were going to be able to have a 100 fish day.  We downrigged to find more fish, catching singles, doubles, and even one triple as we went, and with, about 20 minutes remaining in our trip, brought our tally up to 92 when we happened upon a “haystack” of white bass in about 29 feet of water.

I Spot Locked on top of these fish, got the thumper going, and we began marching toward 100 fish.  By 10:23 we put our 100th fish in the boat and “boogied” back to the boat ramp to meet up with Logan’s mom who was to link up with us at 10:25.

This catch was a “personal best” for Logan.

TALLY: 100 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 ~8 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: Cloudless

Water Level: 0.22 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 0

Wx SNAPSHOT:

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 1965 –  all fish caught with 70 yards including topwater largmouth and bottom-hugging white bass and drum.

Bob Maindelle

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Website: www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

E-mail: Bob@HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

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This morning, Tuesday, July 18th, I fished the 8th “SKIFF” program trip of the 2017 season on Stillhouse, welcoming aboard 8-year-old Norah Todd, 7-year-old Lilah Todd, and 5-year-old Brenna Todd, chaperoned by their mom, Jeannette Todd.

 

From left: Brenna, Lilah, and Norah Todd with their mom, Jeannette Todd in the background.  The girls show off the 3 fish we caught on “Round 2” of downrigging for white bass with 3-armed umbrella rigs equipped with Pet Spoons.

Jeannette’s spouse, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Pepple, is currently deployed to Kuwait and has served in the U.S. Army for 13 years now.

Stillhouse offers great summer variety for such kids’ trips, allowing a variety of tactics to be used for a variety of species.  Today, for our first 3 hours on the water, we alternated between downrigging and slabbing for actively feeding white bass found in the lower third of the water column.  Our last hour was spent up shallow fishing slipfloat rigs for sunfish, many hand-sized, in the abundant shoreline cover now present.

The 3-armed umbrella rig equipped with Pet Spoons worked like a charm for downrigging, and the 3/4 oz. white Redneck Model 180 slab with Hazy Eye Stinger hook attached did the trick for the vertical jigging.

At trip’s end, after fishing in a windless cove for sunfish, everyone was pretty hot, especially given that the girls all had life jackets on.  On the way back to the boat ramp I “went fast” (about 25 mph) to cool us off and give the girls a bit of a boat ride.  This was the first time the girls had been on a boat and so you can imagine the screams and squeals when we got up a bit of speed — very fun!

“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: 59 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:25am

End Time: 10:25am

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 77F

Water Surface Temp: 86F

Wind Speed & Direction: SSW breeze under 5 mph the entire trip

Sky Conditions: Grey cloud bank in the east, but otherwise, <5% clouds

Water Level: 0.24 feet high and slowly falling with only evaporative losses of ~0.02 feet per day; 0 cfs release at dam

GT = 0

Wx SNAPSHOT:

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 1950 thru 547 and vic 1310 – downrigging for white bass beneath surface feeding largemouth

**Area vic 1312 & 1964 – slabbing vertically for white bass in the lowest 4 feet of the water column

**Area 1572 – sunfishing with slipfloats

 

Bob Maindelle

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

254.368.7411 (call or text)

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