09-21-2024, 02:34 PM
(09-21-2024, 01:25 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: Sorry to hear about your trip and fall Pat, glad there was no serious damage. Sounds like you three did almost as good as Alan, Ira and myself. Funny you did not find any active cats biting there by the North dike but maybe they had sore lips from the beating they took while we were there the day before. Were you using chub minnows or cut up chub?The other "two musketeers" were both using cut pieces from a larger chub. I was using my small (2-3") left-handed blue-eyed chub minnows...whole. Both worked when we found active fish.
As we have all found out, yesterday's success is no guarantee of anything the day after. Always a good plan to start where you had success before...using the same tactics, techniques, bait and/or lures. But...especially in Willard...fish move around and change attitudes quickly and often. So you always gotta be prepared with plans, B, C, D and on and on. Helps to have a lot of background experience over a wide range of conditions to at least suggest a place to start if your first choice doesn't work out. As we have also found...gratefully...there are almost always some kind of fish biting somewhere in Willard...on something. Can't count the number of times I was smelling the striped kitty toward the end of a long day and then suddenly get busy at the last spot I planned to try before heading home with a whimper.