Willard Is Not Over Yet

[Paddler]

I only saw a couple of shad balls today, and one tern.  So not done yet.  I remember many years ago now I had both my sons-in-law in the boat, neither of which are fishermen, up on the Bay.  Their idea of fishing was driving around with lots of open containers, which are verboten in my boat.  I saw some terns up ahead diving on bait, so steered my boat right through them.  We hooked up three out of four lines on wipers.  They weren't really prepared to reel in fish as it interfered with their libations.

I was a bit concerned with the weak cold front forecast for yesterday, but decided to chance it.  The water was quite warm, and as I predicted, the fish would chase faster baits.  At one point I was dealing with three fish at one time.  Unfortunately, I had just cut the gill takers on the third fish when it somersaulted out of the splashwell off of the other two fish back into the water.  Bummer.

I ended up catching ten walleye, a 13" perch and a catfish.  A second cat broke me off, too.  Once I figured out they wanted, Hot-N-Tots, I kept a limit plus the perch.  Water temp was 73F rising to 76F in the afternoon.  Not sure if color matters, but Chrtreuse/Silver seemed to be better.  90'-120' off the boards, 50'-60' out to the boards.

Sorry no pictures, as I arranged my fish at the cleaning station and thought I took a photo buy it's not on my phone.