10-17-2006, 12:01 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Unlike Farmington Bay, a brackish marsh off the great Salt Lake, Willard Bay is entirely fresh water. It is formed by trapping the water from the Weber and Ogden Rivers inside a big manmade dike. Before the lake was filled, they used bulldozers to scoop out the bottom and make a big dirt dike. Then they covered that with big rocks, blasted from the nearby mountains.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It has a maximum depth of about 25 feet during high water and there are quite a few species of freshwater fish for the taking. These include the wipers, walleyes, channel catfish, largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappies, bluegill and yellow perch. The main forage species is the gizzard shad.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It is great fishing all year, including through the ice during those winters when it freezes enough to be safe.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am attaching a couple of fisherman's maps.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It has a maximum depth of about 25 feet during high water and there are quite a few species of freshwater fish for the taking. These include the wipers, walleyes, channel catfish, largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappies, bluegill and yellow perch. The main forage species is the gizzard shad.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It is great fishing all year, including through the ice during those winters when it freezes enough to be safe.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am attaching a couple of fisherman's maps.[/#0000ff]
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