Newbie Tuber Scores at Willard 9-15-23 (With Video)

[jjannie]

Way to go, good to hear you both had successful trips. Glad to read your latest addition to the flig arsenal have proven successful yet again Pat. Were you using a piece of crawler or chub for bait on the drop back flig? Pretty amazing how the shad look like a big fish on the finder.

You can use any kind of bait...worms, cut bait or minnows.  I caught perch on worm baited drop-back fligs last week at Rockport...and the week before at Deer Creek.  But on Willard I was using small chub minnows...as in the pic below.  But I know that a small piece of chub cut from a larger chub would work as well.



And yes, that shot of the shad was amazing.  Just happened to look down and see it...and get a shot of it...before it disappeared off the other side.  Never seen anything like that before.  Now if I see one that looks like a big catfish, I'm gonna get off the lake.

 After reviewing the catfish video, we're more motivated to be able to try some of those, eventually. But for dinner tonight we'll stick with the catfish fingers, and we'll pick up some of that shrimp bullion tomorrow while we are in town to use for all our trimmed off pieces.  Almost can't wait to give them a try.

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Way to go, good to hear you both had successful trips. Glad to read your latest addition to the flig arsenal have proven successful yet again Pat. Were you using a piece of crawler or chub for bait on the drop back flig? Pretty amazing how the shad look like a big fish on the finder.

You can use any kind of bait...worms, cut bait or minnows.  I caught perch on worm baited drop-back fligs last week at Rockport...and the week before at Deer Creek.  But on Willard I was using small chub minnows...as in the pic below.  But I know that a small piece of chub cut from a larger chub would work as well.



And yes, that shot of the shad was amazing.  Just happened to look down and see it...and get a shot of it...before it disappeared off the other side.  Never seen anything like that before.  Now if I see one that looks like a big catfish, I'm gonna get off the lake.

Mine we're pretty much evenly baited between the minnows or the crawlers, it just didn't seem to really matter.