09-09-2009, 03:49 PM
Well, I'll go ahead and post up my latest willard report on here. Against my better judgement, I took my boat out to Willard Monday afternoon for the first time since early June. I knew the power squad would be pretty bad, but it was the worst I seen all year! So as I launched, I had pretty much come to the conclusion that I was going to be lucky to have a pleasureable boat ride, let alone catch some fish.
Well I took off trolling from the North Marina about 4 pm, headed over to freeway bay, hit the southeast corner and headed out on a b-line for the light pole. A little better than half way across, picked up a fair walleye flatlining a crank - 18 incher. Got to the light pole and did a few loop-diddy-loo's, then took off on a b-line for the marina. About a 1/4 of the way there I hit a 20 inch wiper on a crank off the planer board. It was nearly 9 when I finally got back to the marina, and those were the only 2 bites I had. I was pretty happy considering how bad the power squad was, they did finally mellow out around 6:30. Nice little boat ride with the wife and kid, my wife got to reel in her first fishies since starting Bridgerland's nursing program back in July, plus I got beer battered filllets on the way - yipee!
FYI - I was letting the flatlines out about 40 ft, and running my cranks 40 feet off the boards, and kept my troll at about 3.1 mph GPS (+/-). I thought coming off the full moon the fish would have swollen guts, but nothing in the walleye's stomach, and 1 little 1" fish in the wiper that was too digested to identify.
I got a couple pics that I will try to put on later.
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Well I took off trolling from the North Marina about 4 pm, headed over to freeway bay, hit the southeast corner and headed out on a b-line for the light pole. A little better than half way across, picked up a fair walleye flatlining a crank - 18 incher. Got to the light pole and did a few loop-diddy-loo's, then took off on a b-line for the marina. About a 1/4 of the way there I hit a 20 inch wiper on a crank off the planer board. It was nearly 9 when I finally got back to the marina, and those were the only 2 bites I had. I was pretty happy considering how bad the power squad was, they did finally mellow out around 6:30. Nice little boat ride with the wife and kid, my wife got to reel in her first fishies since starting Bridgerland's nursing program back in July, plus I got beer battered filllets on the way - yipee!
FYI - I was letting the flatlines out about 40 ft, and running my cranks 40 feet off the boards, and kept my troll at about 3.1 mph GPS (+/-). I thought coming off the full moon the fish would have swollen guts, but nothing in the walleye's stomach, and 1 little 1" fish in the wiper that was too digested to identify.
I got a couple pics that I will try to put on later.
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