I have a question for y'all. Where can I find a DVD/video about how to catch wipers? I have never fished for them before and I am chomping at the bit to get theboeat out.
I just don't know things like, what kind of setup to use. How big to too big for eating size. What is a good keeper size. Things like that.
Thanks for the help.
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Relate too Striped Bass, pull up land locked Striped Bass. Reports from the Colorado river and alot of your questions will be answered. Also similiar too White Bass habits, find one and you usually find a school of them.
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The best thing about wipers is that they are hungry most of the time. If you can find them, you can catch them most of the time.
Willard is a big expance of not much. There are a couple of islands, but not to much in the way of structure. Close your eyes and imagine them building the dike. Dozers and trucks, scraping the bottom of the existing salt lake marsh, pushing that dirt up to form the dike. That is what you find, mostly windrows from the making.
So, the wipers follow the food. Shad is the food. It starts for me after the first shad hatch, then small shiney lures like lipless crankbaits and silver cast masters work well. Soon the shad grow and biger lipped crankbaits become the norm.
As summer progresses the boils get stronger. I like to run and gun or troll. While trolling with mostly deep diving cranks I pick up a few, but am constantly on the look out with the bino's for birds diving on the water or the breaking of the surface by the boils. I tend to troll near flocks of gulls or comorants or grebes that are on the water. The gulls are waiting like me for the boils so they can snap up scraps or wounded shad. The greebes are feeding under the water on small shad, the commorants are feeding under the water on bigger shad.
If I see a boil, then I run to the spot, shut off the motor, drop the bow mount in and slide up to casting distance from the boil. I like to use castmasters then because they throw a long ways and I'm less likely to spook the school and send them down.
Keep what ever size you want. I like them 16" and up. Some of the 22" fish have a lot of meat on them, I don't think there is a too big to eat size.
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WOW, thats a lot of info. Thanks for the tips, its rare to have someone tell the tactics like that.
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I'm pretty new to Wiper fishing and got into it last year.I wasn't sure what to use and how to catch them. I made a stop at Smith and Edwards and talked to the fish guys at the fishing department there . They seem to have alot of knowledge on how to catch them there . They will show you what bait to use and explain how to catch them . Smith and Edwards is pretty much right there next to Willard bay so try to make a stop there and see about doing some good fishing .
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