Another slow day at Willard

[wiperhunter2]

Inquiring minds wanna know.  Were you not finding fish...or were you finding a lot of fish with lockjaw?  Also, the larger fish you could see on sonar...what seemed to be their preferred cruising depth...on or above the bottom...at in what depths of water?

One thing that has seemed to develop in years past is that the fish will typically be more active at one time of day rather than the others.  Not sure if it is a moon phase (tides), weather patterns, light/dark situation, bait (shad) location and activity or what.  But there are some days when it is an early morning bite...and other days when it is midday or late bite.  And those patterns may remain the same for several days...or not.  Those wascally wipers and walleyes pretty much do whatever they want...according to their own schedules.

I have been trying to get back up there to try out some new goodies I have been playing with.  But Mama Nature keeps having hot flashes and/or hissy fits and my float tube prefers calmer and more comfy conditions.  Maybe next week some day.  Maybe.

Yes, we were finding lots of fish, not quite as many as Monday, they for sure they had lockjaw or our lures were running too deep. Early most of the fish were shallow, in the 3 to 10 ft range. We tried pulling shallow running lures, slow, fast and faster but it did not help. As far as the depth the larger fish were cruising, they were all over the place, depending on the location. Early most were shallow, as I said above, later in the morning, we were finding them at mid depth and in one location we found a lot near the bottom or right on the bottom. We fished all depths depending on where we were seeing the fish. We even tried worm harnesses using some of your hand painted blades, in that area where we were marking fish either on or near the bottom but the cats or what ever they were, didn't even seem interested. 
We were thinking the same thing about the morning vs evening bite thing, so maybe the evening bite could be better.
Hopefully you will do better, if you make it up here next week. We think it was just one of those days.