Willard Sat 4/23/05

[mdmaurer]

Sounds like most of you did better than me. I took my son out there for his first ever float tube gig. We waited until evening, as that was when they were biting well last week. That was a mistake. I had been looking forward all week to the beautiful sunny 75 degree day. What happened to that? We arrived about 5:00pm, and by the time we had set up our tubes and waded into the water the big wind blew in. We sat there and watched the whitecaps grow bigger by the minute. It was really howling. So much for my boy's first tubing experience. We ended up hiking down the west dike a ways, storing our tubes in the rocks, and trying to cast from shore for a while. Conditions were tough, and we got no hits. Hopefully we can break in his tube next week.
[walleye]