Willard today with The Slayer

[wiperhunter2]

Ira and I got up to Willard this morning, launching around 7:30 am. We were greeted at the ramp by none other than TubeDude, it was good sharing the water with you today Pat. It started off pretty slow but at 8:30 the switch turned on and we boated 5 cats up to 23" in the next 40 minutes. The pink tiger flig, with chub meat for bait was the hot flig for the day but we also caught a few on the blue/silver flig. Not long after we launched 3 DWR trucks pulled up, they launched a boat and headed over to the West dike area. We did not talked to them but we are guessing they are starting their annual gill netting for walleye, seems a little early, with the water temp being only 42 degrees but that's our best guess. After the catching slowed down we moved over to Freeway bay but over the next hour or two we only picked up 1 more cat, so we moved back over to the area where we started out. We ended up catching two more cats and one jumbo perch before we headed in around 1:30. Pretty nice day out there today and we were happy with the results on our first boat fishing trip in 2022.