Dead Cats a Willard?

[Mr. J]

Ira and I fished Willard for the first time in months, we arrived around 7 am and noticed a lot of shad dimpling the surface. We launched and headed out into the Bay. After setting up, we started slow trolling fligs in Freeway bay, our first cats were caught on either pink or green tiger fligs but we started seeing some dead cats.  We finally moved North to the outlet area and we were still seeing dead cats. We also added the orange tigers fligs and kept picking up even more cats, three were 24 to 26". Water temps were 74 to 75 degrees. Has anyone heard about why the cats are dying at Willard? I sent a email to Chris Penne, hopefully he has an idea. Here is our biggest cat of the day.

Don't know anything about dead cats and I don't like to hear about it either. I am hoping to get up there and try to get some eaters as soon as I can get a new leg and learn to use it. Every thing down here is too big.

Good to learn the two of you were able to get into cats. Did you find any other species that wanted to bite?

rj