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Willard wipers 10-2-10
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With the warm weather we are having I couldn't bring myself to put on the insulated waders and chase ducks in this heat. So I decided to let those wipers have one last shot at me before winter. I took my kids and my friend and his son. We hit the water at 2:00 pm and trolled around the lake to find where they were holding up. We found the largest concentrations on the north end. They were tight liped until about 6:30 when we got our first hook up. Right when we netted it, hook up number two was on and we got it into the boat. At this point we had two fish come in on the same lure so we had there number and changed all five rods to that lure. We trolled for about half an hour longer and saw some of the largest boiles I had seen going on about 200 yards away so we headed on over and went right through the middle of them and it didn't seem slow them down one bit. Its pretty exiting when you've got that much feeding going on all around you. You can just feel that your about to get bit. Well we had three hook ups all within about 15 seconds of each other. We boated two of the three wipers, and the third broke off the line. The boils started up and shut back down inside of 20 minutes. We had one more hook up just after dark that got off before we could boat it. All in all I felt pretty good about our efforts it was only my second time fishing on Willard for wipers and my friends first. The kids had a great time and each got to reel one in.
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#2
Wow, Nice fish and awesome pics...way to get the kids into some good fighitng fish!! Congrats,

Shawn M
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#3
Thanks for post.
great photos.
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#4
Great pictures! Hope your kids had a great time. I was watching the boils on the camera last night. Looked like alot of fun. [Smile]
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#5
Seriously - you could see them on the camera? Awesome! I saw some of my first serious boils last night, but no way to get to them. Out of time, out of juice. But - posts like this, gonna have to try again. Seems like sunset must be THE hot time. Fast, short, but hot - if you're in the right place, right time.

Any chance you could share what was the hot-pattern that got them riled up? I managed to lose two shad-pattern cranks. [mad] Running too close to shore I guess. Dangit!

Sounds like you launched from the N. Marina? I need to try getting out to light-post again. Busy ffinder out there.

Glad the kids got some action. Good tugs!
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#6
Sounds like a fun outing, did you try casting into the boils? From the pictures, it looks like you were at least a few hundred yards off the North dike, is that about right? Thanks for posting your report.
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#7
Nice to hear[cool] great report n pics.
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#8
I was useing a rapalla chrome/blue lipless crank in a #5. I actually launched out of the south marina and ended up on the north end of the lake cause thats where I was seeing the most fish on my sonar. I look for large fish intermixed with the tiny shad pixels on my fish finder screen. I figure thats the hungry ones. The fish I saw on the south end were more isolated and no shad pixels.
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#9
Yea, thats pretty much where we were. We didn't cast into the boils, we were trolling one line out the back, one on each side of the boat, and two more on side planers. I have top water lures to cast into the boils and it looks like a hoot. But do you think you end up with more fish tossing top waters or trolling figure 8's over a school.
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#10
When you have kids in the boat, you are better off trolling but in most cases you will do better casting into the boils. There have been a bunch of members say that casting into the boils have not worked as well this year but I think that will change as the boils get bigger, like you were seeing.
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#11
I saw a few 'micro boils' along the dike toward freeway bay, but it was the sunset - out from the south marina that was furious. Pretty much straight on tack to the light pole. I need a boat with more uppmh!

Thanks for the details. Yep - dropped a white shad crank bait, and a jointed blue-back[mad] cursed be! Dang tangled weeds!
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#12
What pound test were youi using?
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#13
What is the driving force that causes the boils to get bigger? And when and why will they start winding down? Thanks for the help. I'm new to the Willard seen.
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#14
From my experience, when there is a lot of food(shad) in the water, you don't have a lot of boils but after the wipers have thinned them out, the boils begin and grow bigger. The boils will stay large until the shad have been thinned out to the point where there are no more huge schools of shad. Last year we never got to the point of having boils after the spawn because there were just too many shad. This year it appears that the wipers have thinned out the shad early and the catching should improve. It will depend on how long the weather holds but I have been in boils as late as November just not as big. In years past I have seen boils as large as 1/4 to 1/2 mile long, it is an awesome site.
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#15
there were big boils last year, i hammered them a few times 30 fish up and big,to me this was an outstanding year at willard ,look at bassrods or drews reports .
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#16
When was this, was it in the spring before the shad spawned? I remember seeing and reading reports of members doing good before the spawn but I don't remember any after the spawn.
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#17
me and a friend were out there in the spring this year walleye fishing and caught so many we couldnt even fish for walleyes we had to move 2 or 3 times to try to avoid them,doubles on many casts could of caught as many as we wanted.last year these fish boiled in the fall me and my wife caught as many as we wanted maybe 5 or 6 times.Wipers are very easy to catch just have to be there when they are feeding on there time, you wont make them bite when they dont want to, especially when they have alot of food.They will boil this year, same as last year.i caught quite a few on the full moons in june and july when walleye fishing .i pretty much hate them , they stink up my cooler and keep me from walleyes or crappies, but i see the attraction to them for many people.just my opinion.
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#18
Glad to hear someone was catching them last fall, I don't remember reading or seeing a single one at that time. Too bad you weren't a member then, we would have loved to hear a good report about wipers boiling last fall[Smile].
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#19
Thanks for the boil photos, I do not think their is too many photos of boils around. Thanks for the great insite..I will be out their some time this week..[Wink]
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