Willard 9/3 thru 9/6

[fishinfool]

Had a really good time with my sis and her hubby on willard this weekend.

Friday Night got on the water around 6:30 and as soon as we got out we ran into are first **** of the night. it didn't last long and no fish where caught. [:/] ? Thought to myself that was weird they usually hit anything when there ****ing. NOT THIS YEAR! We headed towards freeway bay and ran into a mass of boats waiting for the fun to begin and it wasn't long tell the fish started to show themselves again. And people where catching them.We got in where the action was and the fish moved are way, cast after cast produced no fish. Now I'm frustrated so I move out away from the crowd, and myself and Lunkerhunter2 started to look around for somewhere there wasn't twenty boats on the fish. didn't take long and we had a boil all to ourselves and cast after cast produced nothing. that's when I down sized to the flee bitty lure. first cast into a boil. BINGO! wiper on I tossed my sister and her hubby one. sis first cast wiper on. well brother in law is trying to untangle a mess with his line and me and sis catch another three before the boil goes down. it was dark by then so we headed to camp.
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Saturday Woke up at 5:00AM took a ride down to the lake to see if there was any action and couldn't see much goin on so headed to camp got my Mike up.
We where on the water at 6:00 Just enough light to see and we headed for a loop around the lake. I wanted to see if there was any action somewhere else on the lake. after a half hour ride we returned to the freeway bay area but way out. when the birds began to show use there was some morning action happening not to far away. Got into a monster **** with fish all around use. For an hour we fished this and they where not wanting anything to do with the flee bitty or anything else I had to offer which consisted of. Jig,kast master, small rapala's, lipless cranks, We switched to all kinds of things with the same result nothing? Now I'm a little frustrated and we go in for some breakfast. Dang wiper are be very picky? Got back on the water around 5:00 PM hoping for another shot at some but they did not **** except for a **** right before dark and that was it. Big Skunk smell was coming from are camp that night. [:/]
Sunday got back on the water with some more thoughts on how to catch them if they came up. same area same time, there they where threw in with a flee bitty let it sit twitch twitch wiper on. showed Mike and my nephew how I caught it then proceeded to put three wipers on the boat in quick order with them getting a few swing and misses and then the fish went down. we waited for awhile for them to come up and I decided to troll a bit in the area, two flee bitty's and a diver down the middle. when suddenly the diver got smashed and the drag was screaming, then the fish got off? we thought until the lure was retrieved and the back hook and part of the body was gone? that's all it took and we had three divers going within half hour we had three more wiper to the boat. a single and double hook up. then I saw some birds going again but no fish rising I trolled the edge of it and I got one on. the other two started reeling in and two more wipers on. first triple of the year. instead of waiting for the net I netted all three.

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Then about eleven the bite died so it was into camp for some late breakfast. After cleaning these.
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Got back on the water around 4:00 after the front had moved threw and it was to windy for any kind of boat control. went in got the boat loaded and went back to camp.
Monday Morning woke to very cold and calm morning. I knew there wasn't going to be much going on and there wasn't not a bite got off the lake around 11:00 and headed for home. fun weekend.
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[muskyhunter]

Good work Tony! Glad at least a couple wanted to play!![]
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[KingTwistedKidd]

[:p] Sounds like you had an enjoyable weekend. Nice job
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[wiperhunter2]

Great report Tony, I'm sure glad to hear the wipers are ****ing[], this year. I was thinking we were going to see a repeat of last year. We were out there on Friday night also but my main motor was down, so we could not move around. We ended up trolling and got one hit but that was it.[frown]
We talked with folks that saw the boils but all we saw were birds diving. Were you in your boat on Friday?
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[fishinfool]

Yes, we where in my boat. Where we where you wouldn't have had to go far, just hang a left and there we where. If you launched from the north marina.
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[fishinfool]

[quote muskyhunter]Good work Tony! Glad at least a couple wanted to play!![][/quote]

and there picky this year? Guess you can't beat the real thing? The shad in there stomach are still pretty small about 3/4 - 1" is all figured they would be eating 2 1/2 incher's by now?
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[fishinfool]

Yes, always have a good time.
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[Old_Coot]

Fantastic report Tony. It is reports like this that give the rest of us hope. Like always, you put in the time, give new lures a chance, change locations, change tactics, and in general work hard several days in a row. Now that's gittin' er dun there guy.

Good on ya.

Have I kissed up enough now to talk you into taking me out for some "training"?
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[fishinfool]

I'm no better at catching wipers than you are Ralph? But both of use should be able to figure out how to catch a few [] Should be back to biting good. I don't know how the heck BassRods got them to bite Sunday afternoon? Maybe they just needed to warm up a little? He seems to be able to catch fish out of a mud puddle.[sly]
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[CoyoteSpinner]

I think Tony is masking his BOILs so people won't go finding my Mantua Blue-gill action!!!!

Nice on Fish-n-fool. Good weekend out - I'd suppose it was pretty busy down there - being a holiday weekend and all. Glad you got after them, and had a chance to try a few approaches. Flea bitty's - not the first time I've hear them talked up. Finniky fish. Damn. I want frenzied feeding fever madness - anything hits! (like their lil' cousins at UL!)
What was the biggest you brought in? Guys on shore hollered something about a 7-lber.

Curt - I think we were more on 'em than we realized Friday - along the freeway-feedlot stretch. We did see the birds, just not the boils. Did you ever hear from Ken with the kind boat! Had a nice smoked Wiper out of their generosity. Spicy and sweet. Hmmmm.
Your post - all the more convinces me - I need more speed to be able to chase a boil, or at least get around a water that size. Lamp post to S. Marina. Good stretch I've heard. Nice to learn about the under-water structure.

Ran across a map, and I don't wonder if some of the "roads" don't actually continue under water - as you were explaining. This feller we met - said he had maps from before Willard was filled, so they show all the bottom structure. THAT might help me find some Walleye!
I'll post it up tomorrow.
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[wiperhunter2]

Yes, Ken signed up as [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/community/community.cgi?do=user_page;pg=user_profile_view.html;username=Paxapunch"][/url]Paxapunch.
I ask him about the pictures of the bay and he said he would try a find them.
Yea, without the big motor to move around quickly we were definitely at a divantage. Lots of area to cover if you're looking for boiling wipers[].
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[CoyoteSpinner]

I do have this "older" map of Willard. I now wonder if the lines that extend from roads into the lake are actually the underwater service roads you were telling me about, and that Paxapunch also referred to.

If weather's not to crappy I may try heading down there tomorrow afternoon. See if I can't track down a friendly Walleye of Crappie. Maybe I'll get lucky and have a **** come up right under me! About the only way I'll "catch" one!

Need to explore some of that underwater structure! Plus I have a feeling there's a fat cat waiting for me. Jiggidy Jig!
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