08-07-2021, 05:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-07-2021, 05:58 PM by wiperhunter2.)
(08-07-2021, 05:34 PM)LundLefty Wrote:(08-06-2021, 01:47 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: 8 cats in less than an hour, wow, you must have found the honey hole, mind share some details, like what method you were using, cut bait, trolling, jigging?
Bottom-bouncing at .75/1. mph with bait. Chicken, shrimp, both have been working. We found a small rise in the middle of the "Vast Willard Nothingness" that consistently holds fish - walleye and cats - although the walleye got real scarce once the water hit the high 70s.
We have it marked on the Helix GPS and just criss-cross over our little hump.
We were picking up quite a few cats while trolling cranks for walleye, but it really picked up when we switched to bait (and a catfish with a treble or two in it's mouth is a real PITA to get unbuttoned). Nice size fish, those 8 gave us just over 5# of fillets.
And NOT ONE WIPER this year!!! What's up with that???
I tried bouncing over a week ago, at one of the many little hump I know about at willard, nothing, likely because I was using nightcrawlers, later I started using cut bait and it was game on for the cats, they just did not seem to care for worms.
Yea, the wipers have been in short supply this year, we have caught a few but their numbers are way down.
The DWR are stocking fewer of them the last few years but they are still in the lake.