06-29-2018, 02:31 PM
TubeDude provided a very nice map with his answer. But that is an aerial (satellite) view. So to explain what it looks like from water level..........you know where the feed lot is by the big tower sticking up behind the south-east dike...
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East of that about 200 yards (approx.). is where the Coffer Dam was put in during the dike repair. When the water is low (lower than right now) the weeds are very visible, and there used to be some hazard buoys around it. Have not seen the buoys lately, and the water is up to the point that right now you can see maybe 1 to 2 feet of weeds above the surface.
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The depth varies of course with the water level. Off of that south wall there is a depth change caused by a small ridge line that runs roughly east and west about 150 yards out from the wall. When the water level is medium to high as it is now, that ridge is in approx. 10 to 13 fow. That ridge line may only be 1 to 2 feet higher than the surrounding bottom depth, and it isn't consistent or in a straight line. But from in front of the feed lot to just past the Coffer Dam has always been a fair to good, and sometimes great fish producer.
Had my personal best day in that area on 20 August 2016 - 4 Channel Cats, 12 Wiper, 1 Walleye. All on night crawlers. [
] Had several days before and since that I took a limit of Cats out of that area.
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[inline "(033a) Willard Feed Lot 5 May 16 1355.jpg"]
East of that about 200 yards (approx.). is where the Coffer Dam was put in during the dike repair. When the water is low (lower than right now) the weeds are very visible, and there used to be some hazard buoys around it. Have not seen the buoys lately, and the water is up to the point that right now you can see maybe 1 to 2 feet of weeds above the surface.
[inline "(026) south wall near Coffer Dam.jpg"]
The depth varies of course with the water level. Off of that south wall there is a depth change caused by a small ridge line that runs roughly east and west about 150 yards out from the wall. When the water level is medium to high as it is now, that ridge is in approx. 10 to 13 fow. That ridge line may only be 1 to 2 feet higher than the surrounding bottom depth, and it isn't consistent or in a straight line. But from in front of the feed lot to just past the Coffer Dam has always been a fair to good, and sometimes great fish producer.
Had my personal best day in that area on 20 August 2016 - 4 Channel Cats, 12 Wiper, 1 Walleye. All on night crawlers. [
] Had several days before and since that I took a limit of Cats out of that area.[inline (086).JPG]
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