Ira and I got out to Willard today and fished with Reelfast. Since he retired he does not like to get out too early, so we meet up, launched and were fishing by 8:15 am. We had our first eye, ten minutes later, then caught another two in just a few minutes, two on the apex lures that Ira and I both have.
That was it for the day for the apex lures, from then on, it was only a crank bite. We have been fishing the same area for over a month now and every week we are seeing more and more shad in the water and their size are getting larger.
![[Image: Willard-shad.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/fJz9HDV2/Willard-shad.jpg)
We must have tried at least 30 different lure today, catching one or two on a lure then nothing for a while, nothing real consistent. By 2 pm we had 12 eyes in the dead well, we stuck it out for another hour but only got one more, so we called it quits around 3 pm. Water temp was 66 when we got there and got to 74 before we stopped for the day. Most eyes were caught off of side planers. We trolled between 1.9 and 2.3 mph. We mainly fished in 10 to 11 fow all day.
![[Image: twolimits.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/ygtFM9cV/twolimits.jpg)
That was it for the day for the apex lures, from then on, it was only a crank bite. We have been fishing the same area for over a month now and every week we are seeing more and more shad in the water and their size are getting larger.
We must have tried at least 30 different lure today, catching one or two on a lure then nothing for a while, nothing real consistent. By 2 pm we had 12 eyes in the dead well, we stuck it out for another hour but only got one more, so we called it quits around 3 pm. Water temp was 66 when we got there and got to 74 before we stopped for the day. Most eyes were caught off of side planers. We trolled between 1.9 and 2.3 mph. We mainly fished in 10 to 11 fow all day.