I really enjoyed watching every episode. I would like to share a boat with Bill. Always had a smile and positive attitude. Hope you find a way to keep it going.

I met Bill a few times and he is as good as they come. Over the years I would see him fishing tournaments and get to chat with him. He is always approachable and easy to talk too. Thank you, Honey Hole, for the childhood memories and memories watching Honey Hole on TV with my son.

Honey Hole helped introduce me to fishing in Texas. Thanks to Bill, Mark, Dirk and everyone who helped keep it on the air. It will be missed

Thanks everyone for the kind words and the stories. Keep them coming.

These maps run down memory lane for me.

I would watch the show and glean as much as I could from Jerry & whoever his guest was for the week.

Jerry & Deborah were the nicest people and always willing to help.

I met Bill at the ramp at Lake Roberts several times. I credit him for the reason that I caught bass.

Funny story. My wife was watching TV and saw Honey Hole come up as recently watched show. She questioned me about watching Porn. I told her yes, I was watching porn... fish porn.

I was fortunate enough to film a show with Jerry and Bill. Fished with Jerry over 25 years ago I believe. Lol. The whole Honey Hole staff has always been top notch. I like a few others had a funny story wit HH. I typed in Honey Hole.com on my computer years ago. Next thing I know I've got all kinds of porn pics popping up on my computer. LMAO. Their will never be a TV show like Honey Hole ever again. Great job guys. Enjoy your time off. It's well deserved.

Stogie - Those were some great maps and I still somewhere at my place have the video Hollice Joiner did going around Fork talking about the spots listed.
I ran into Jerry in the back of Monticello Cove on Bob Sandlin and just as we met to pass each other he took quite a while to visit and see how I was doing and we had a really great conversation. Not too much later I was helping out in a booth at a boat and tackle show and it ended up being right next to the Honey Hole booth and was such a great time getting to really know Jerry and the awesome Deborah Dean and how she told one girlfried of a young man who was ate up with bass fishing. She asked Deborah what she thought when her man said he was heading off to go fishing. Deborah looked at her and said "Honey, when my man say's he's going fishing, I don't have to worry about anything because I know that's exactly where he is going!"
The highlight of my weekend.

Put me on the cover.

One time on Lake Georgetown, met the only other boat on the lake and it was Jerry Dean and a guide scoping the lake out for a future show. He asked if we had any luck and hell yeah we did. Probably boated 20+ or so. Asked if we caught any smallmouth, hell yeah we did. A couple up to 3#. They didn't catch anything. Told him, welcome to the beautiful, barren bitch.

Nice man who gave us a few copies of HH magazine.

Show never happened.

Thanks for the shows and magazines.

Great show! Tell Bill, I've yet to catch a fish on a chartreuse color Smash Tech Bubble Fry and I've dragged that sucker all over Belton and Stillhouse Hollow.

And one could tell the show was loved, watched and followed.

How?

I seem to recall that Bill decided to fish Lake Athens one time in the cold of winter. It might've been a shift in plans at the last moment for some reason where he chose Athens over another lake. I can't quite recall; perhaps someone else does. Anyway, he went out and just slaughtered the bass, showed what and where he fished. It seems he found a steep drop off back toward the dam that had grass down to a certain depth. He explained how cold bass like to warm up in grass, little informational tidbits like that. That mapping Honey Hole did left little confusion about where he was having luck.

So, what happened? As best I recall, it was after that show that little sleepy Lake Athens became a very popular destination owing to its proximity to D/FW.

I think Bill fished it several different years, always with good results.

Brad

Honey Hole was an important part of teaching me how to fish in Texas when I moved here. The show is always entertaining and educational and you can tell people were putting their hearts into making it.

For a while, my family had a Nielsen Ratings Box. When we’d watch something, we would enter the time/channel/number of viewers. I would watch HH while the family slept but max out the number of viewers! No idea if that had an impact on anything but they told me our box represented 300,000 viewers in DFW.

Great show.

Saw Bill on fork earlier this year fishing with two other guys.
I told them to wait up and I would follow them just making conversation.
Had know idea it was Bill until he said come on let’s go.
It was his voice that got me.
I’m looking up and going I’ll be dog.
That’s Bill Wilcox voice.