2021 Willard Bay trips 29 & 30

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Trip # 29  31 July
  Beautiful day, beat the skunk by just 1 Cat .


   


Trip # 30  4 Aug. 
It would have been another beautiful day if not for the smoke.   Got on the water at 7:45.  Air temp on arrival 73 deg. water temp 78.7 deg.  WB south marina water levels seem to be almost holding. Water being let in at the baffles is almost maintaining what is being lost each day to evaporation.  Still just under 2 fow at bottom of center ramp, 3.4 to 3.7 fow in marina, 3.5 to 5.5 in center of channel, and once past the buoy line about 200 yards it's 6-11 fow depending which direction you go.   The lower water levels are keeping the bigger boats out. On arrival at WB South yesterday there was only 1 other fishing rig in the lot, then as I was launching, one more pulled in.   



 
Very light breeze out of the north east.  Set up out east of the feed lot towers and drifted slowly at .35 mph back towards the south wall. Fishing was slow, but totaled out better than trip # 29 and counted my best catch so far this year.  A little over 2 hours on the water and it went to dead calm and from where I was about half way between feed lot and freeway bay, I could just barely make out the west wall thru the smoke. 

     


Boated and released a total of 6  WBCCC .  Called it quits about 1:30 p.m.  On leaving, air temp was up to 85, water temp to 81.6, and as far as I could see only 4 or 5 other boats on the water, and 3 kayaks that had been hung out just off the rocks at the feed lot for much of the day. 

 
    

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August 4th , launched about 8am and had 8 cats in the livewell in less than an hour - plenty to stock the freezer.  Non-stop action until we left, home before lunch.