NBW at Willard today, well almost

[wiperhunter2]

Good to see you guys on the water again.  Glad you found some willing "baby wipes".  They always punch above their weight class.

Got an email from Chris Penne asking about those wiperettes...sizes, etc.  He is happy that last years bumper plantings are doing well and providing good action.  I told him of the many reports of success...including some boils.  Also told him that a lot of Willardites would prefer year round fishing for wipers to only two months of reliable action for walleyes.  No response to that yet.

He is also wanting to know if anyone is catching any of this year's plantings of small wipers...should be in the 4-5 inch range about now.  I suspect that since not many folks are fishing "small" they are not likely to be getting many of those.  I had some rattle rattle bites and quick hit pecks while dragging fligs yesterday...that could have been some of those wee wipers...or perch...or small cats.  But since none got hooked I can only speculate.

I have heard from two separate people, that some folks are catching wipers that are 6 to 8". We never caught any that small but when we started fishing yesterday, Ira was worried that might be what we caught, glad that didn't turn out to be true, at least for us. When we moved over closer to you yesterday, and then around the island, we were getting a few of those tap tap tap bites that usually means perch or maybe small wipers but we never hooked any of them, so I can only guess what they were.