After a strike-out attempting to flyfish for white bass on the Llano River this morning, I took a very quick “stay in contact” trip on Stillhouse to keep up with fish and bait movement.

I headed up the Llano River with friends today, but the river is low and without current. There was no evidence of white bass activity whatsoever. If they were there, we’d have seen them, as the water is clear and shallow allowing good visibility of all that swims when polarized glasses are worn.

On Stillhouse, I found 2 distinct groups of active fish today, one at Area 638/640 and another at Area 529.

Both groups of fish behaved the same — they perked up as soon as I got a slab down among them the first time, and when the first fish was hooked, many schoolmates followed it off the bottom, but then the schools cooled off immediately and were very reluctant to follow or strike after that first fish was hooked.

I boated 10 fish (9 whites and 1 largemouth) at Area 638/640 and moved on. I boated 8 fish at Area 529 before the wind died (all white bass). Once the wind died, the fishing died with it.

I noted today that these white basses’ feces were black colored, indicating they are feeding heavily on insects instead of shad.

TALLY = 18 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS:

Start Time: 5:25p

End Time: 7:45p

Air Temp: 83F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~65.8F

Wind: Winds were SSE at 12 and calm by sunset, with a distinct decrease in speed at 7:10.

Skies: Skies were hazy.