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Took Old_Coots suggestion of Willard on Wednesday, after a few PMs and phone calls I hooked up with Markeli from BFT, we started the day off at 07:00, Mark meet me at the south marina at 7:00, we headed for the light pole area and started trolling we got our first hit about 20 min of trolling, mark was the first to get a hit, he was holding his pole so he got a first hand experience how those baby’s smack the lure, and he was s from ear to ear.

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Then another wiper hit about 10 min on the left planer board (I let Mark bring this fighting beast in, again he loved the fight.

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Just started moving the boat again when the right side planer hit, it was a nice walleye, FishNCoach landed this one.

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From that time on it was hit after hit with wiper, we even managed to loose a few at the boat, (keep those wipers in the water, and away from the boat) It got caught under the boat on snapped the line, (If you catch him I want my lure back), the bite slowed down about 10:00 so we headed over to Freeway Bay tried there with no luck, then headed back to the Island area, and Mark landed one more nice wiper.

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The bite totally shut down at 11:00
So we headed in and flayed 6 wiper and a walleye,
Mark will get the taste of a walleye for the first time and some nice wiper steaks.
We had an enjoyable time.
Total fish for the AM was 8, 6 in the boat, 2 lost with lures in them.

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I think Mark is hooked on Willard wiper, what do you think?
We will hook up again Mark

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FishNCoach continued on a full day on the Bay, from about 12:00-03:00PM it was shut down, lockjaw was on every thing.


I headed to the South-East area by the Light poll, then the action started at about 04:00PM Walleye was hitting I netted 3 total walleye in 30 min, then the wiper came on, 4 more before 07:00 PM\
And then I let another wiper get under the boat, snap gone,
Total of 4 Wiper, with my lure in its mouths swimming around Willard.
Between Wiper and walleye I landed 17.
PM rack of fish

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One beautiful day on Willard.

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Help Hints
Water temp - 78.8*
Wind – calm most the day
Pressure - 29 and steady
Air Temp – AM 57* (light jacket weather) PM 87*
Trolling speed – 2.8-3.0 GPS
Line length – 200’
Med diver lure – Black top, silver or white bottom and sides, skinny and long 4”
Fish depth hitting at 12’-15’
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I want to thank you again for the most awesome fishing trip. I had a blast I haven't fished like that ever. I know wiper is the fish I will be hunting in the future. I am hooked !!!!! My grand daughter has decided wiper tastes better than chicken ( her previous favorite ) I think she ate more than I did ( and she said she didn't like fish ).
Thank you again, It was wondeful and awesome and I am out of words tto describe it.

markeli
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Thanks for the report, coach.
Our evening was not quite as successful but it wasn't too bad for a couple of rookies
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Sounds like a great time! Thanks for sharing.
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Nice report and a great day of fishing.
We were going to go up Weds. but my wife wasn't feeling well. "Now I wish I had left her home" j/k
Great pictures also
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Wow!! ... fantastic report Coach! Sounds like you really put in a full day and made quite a haul. Bunch of cool pics and info. Good to see you get handsome old Mark out there with you. Looks like he had a good time.

From what I have read, Wednesday wasn't so "stellar" for everyone else. But you sure do have plenty of fillets to enjoy.

Again ... good report.
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I will PM you with some info>thanks for the reply.
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