06-13-2018, 01:41 AM
Wiperslayer and I got up to Willard this morning, nothing too early because of the cold front moving through yesterday, on the water at 8:30am off a little after 2pm. It was slow to start the day, picking up a smallie and a few cats then the big boy hit but it turned out to be a carp[
], still put up a good fight, that was 3 fish types, kept moving around and finally started to catch some wipers, 4 fish species. We caught more wipers and more wipers and boy were they fighters, ripping the side planers around like they were puppets on a string[crazy]. The wipers seem to have been on a weight loss plan because they are no longer the fat pigs from a month ago or so but they are lean mean fighting machines. Smallest was 18", largest over 21". Kept moving around and finally picked up a couple of eyes, for a 5 species day at the Bay.[cool] The bad news, the baby shad have started moving out into to open water away from the shore where they have been growing for over a month now. We were marking them at 5 ft deep just about everywhere we fished, if we are lucky we will have another month before they get big enough for the bigger fish to start feeding on them and the catching will slow down. I just hope the numbers of baby shad this year are not as high as last year or the Summer catching will be a repeat of last year[]. No pics on this trip, nothing out of the ordinary, except that 10 lb carp but that wasn't worth a pic.[shocked]
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], still put up a good fight, that was 3 fish types, kept moving around and finally started to catch some wipers, 4 fish species. We caught more wipers and more wipers and boy were they fighters, ripping the side planers around like they were puppets on a string[crazy]. The wipers seem to have been on a weight loss plan because they are no longer the fat pigs from a month ago or so but they are lean mean fighting machines. Smallest was 18", largest over 21". Kept moving around and finally picked up a couple of eyes, for a 5 species day at the Bay.[cool] The bad news, the baby shad have started moving out into to open water away from the shore where they have been growing for over a month now. We were marking them at 5 ft deep just about everywhere we fished, if we are lucky we will have another month before they get big enough for the bigger fish to start feeding on them and the catching will slow down. I just hope the numbers of baby shad this year are not as high as last year or the Summer catching will be a repeat of last year[]. No pics on this trip, nothing out of the ordinary, except that 10 lb carp but that wasn't worth a pic.[shocked][signature]