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Here's the short and sweet- Willard bay, hot fishing for walleye, wiper and crappie, troll fast with shad raps youll catch fish! Wiper everywhere, walleye near the light pole, and crappie in the south marina.... Here's the whole story-Drove up to Willard bay yesterday 5/5. Thanks to the info HYDROFISH gave me I pick up a variety of cranks before i headed out. Mostly blue and white. Got out about 7. First one out of the south marina. Put on a blue and white shad rap as i was leaving the channel. Let out 80-90 ft of line. no planer boards. About two minutes past the channel got my first bite as i was speeding up to head to the island. Lost it. two minutes later fish on, first wiper ever. [inline "P1010296 (2) (300x400).jpg"]
Looked like it was gonna be a good day. Caught one more south of the island and lost a nice crappie at the boat. Decided to head to the light pole, not sure where or what that was til i got there, caught a wiper a minute west of the island, circled back landed another, head back west landed 5 more til i finally made it to the light pole. Catching seemed to slow down. Headed south caught one or two. Gas was a little low, started go back towards the marina, hooked my first willard walleye closer to the middle.[inline "P1010302 (300x400).jpg"]
I trolled around in circles and zig zagged the area and caught a crappie and four more walleye and few wiper. Gas got scary low and had to leave to good fishing spot. Cruised back to the island and started trolling a few hundred yards before i got there, caught a few more wiper and another walleye before i had to use the fumes in my tolling motor to get back. Saw a kid catch crappie in the marina, i tired kinda with no luck. ALL fish were caught on ONE lure trolled FAST, i mean rod bent, fish screaming line fast. Slow did not work. In total landed 12, 12-18" wiper, 6 16-20" walleye, and a 10" crappie, by myself... [inline "P1010317 (2) (400x300).jpg"]
On to today 5/6, woke up late, employee party got a little crazy last night. Retired the lure that slayed yesterday, i had to replace both hooks and the whole thing was falling apart by the time the fish were done with it. Went out and bought three more lures a size bigger. Got out with a buddy around one, hoping we wouldnt get skunked from the weather for the 2nd time. Lake calmed down and the sun came out, to be covered right as we got to the fishing spot. Cant ask for better condition. There might have been 2 or 3 other boats on the lake. Headed straight for the walleye spot. No more than a minute of trolling we caught a wiper, which only meant one thing, rod bending, line screaming and big s were ahead. [inline "P1010339 (2) (300x400).jpg"]
My friend hooked into his first wiper just after. Caught a few more trolling. Then after my friend reels a fish in over 200 ft, he had a little too much line out and i think the fish was sleeping when it got to the boat, we saw he hooked our first walleye of the day and the first hes ever caught. [inline "P1010341 (2) (300x400).jpg"]
Released. Circled the area and zig zigged, caught 3 more walleye and a few more wiper. Wind picked up and lightning in the area forced us to get out of there. Caught some wiper and two more walleye on the way back before the waves made it too hard to troll. Got in the marina and saw 10 + people standing next to each other pulling fish out left and right. We pulled up, anchored and realized it was crappie, big crappie. We threw on a little grub jig onto a bobber, caught 20+ crappie in an hour. [inline "P1010342 (2) (300x400).jpg"]
Saw probably 100 fish on stringers getting carried off by people on shore. We kept 12 crappie today, managed to only keep two prego females, threw back a bunch of fat belly females. The rest were big males around 12". [inline "P1010345 (2) (300x400).jpg"]
Wish i tried for cats. Awesome two days of catching! And if your wondering, yes its worth taking the day off to go fish Willard.

OK I'm clawing at the windows trying to get out of this van so I can go home and get the boat. Man you slammed them, great report and story. Hope someday I get a day like that very impressive thanks. I'm sufficiently motivated, wonder if it will still be on after the storm??? Later J
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nice haul there man[cool]
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[quote FishSlayerJT]Couldnt figure out how to inline the pictures but put some good ones up.[/quote][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Great trip; thanks for the report.

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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Click on the ‘Browse’ button in the ATTACHMENTS block below the block where you will type your text. This should open a directory on your computer where you store your pictures. On my computer it opens the Pictures Library I was last looking at.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Now click on the ‘Open’ button. This will take you back to the BFT new post window and the picture file name you selected will now be shown right next to the ‘Browse’ button. It may take a short bit of time to show up here depending on the file size so wait for it.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]After the file shows up next to the ‘Browse’ button, look to the right and click the ‘Inline’ box. A check mark should appear in that box.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]When the picture has been uploaded, it will be listed by its file name and its size will be shown just to the right of the name.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Find and click on the ‘Insert Image’ icon in the menu bar just above where you type your text. The icon looks like a small picture and when you hover over it will display ‘Insert Image’ on the screen. After you click on the icon, a small window will appear.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Click the radio button next to the ‘Inline Attachment’ line. This will cause the picture(s) you uploaded as inline to appear in this window with a radio button next to it or them.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Click on the ‘OK’ button in the small window. The picture will now appear in the POST box. Do NOT be concerned with the size of the picture if it looks really large. When you preview or post the thread, it will be automatically sized to fit the window the viewers will see.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]I know there are a lot of steps here, but it really is fairly simple once you’ve done it a time or two. Some folks don’t do it because they just don’t want to spend that much time on a post. And I can relate to that. But I have lots of time and I always take the time to give my audience the best product I can when it comes to my reports.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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Jeff - quit surfing BFT while you're driving!

If you go, and need a netter - I'm game! I think it IS time I got the boat fired up! (how many times have I said THAT!)

Nice catching there. That pup looks ready to chow!

Oops busted. Wish I was coordinated enough to text without both hands and feet.

Just looking at the weather I may go to work this week, but next week about Tuesday or Wednesday I may burn a few hours of vacation. Would you be in to a weekday? At least if the weather cooperates. Later J
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Thanks dubob. I have read everything about posting pictures and still cant find this edit bar with buttons. I figured out the whole problem im having. I use google chrome, i went onto explorer and there it was. Weird. I can only see the the icons, post style, insert emo., and post block. So from now on ill be able to post inline from explorer.
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]Yea, I tried Chrome - once - and found that I didn't care for it at all. Now your pictures add relevance to your text. Good job. I'm glad I could help.[/#800000][/font]
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