11-28-2011, 01:31 AM
[quote Catcherman.]Thanks for the great reports! I still have never been up to willard. Do people catch alot if wipers threw the ice?[/quote]
[cool][#0000ff]Short answer: NOPE[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Longer answer: They can be caught through the ice and a few guys do catch them. But most that are hooked are never pulled through the hole. They go round and round when hooked and either tangle you up with other anglers or saw your line off on the edge of the hole. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like most fish, wipers will bite when you locate them...if they are active. The big problem in Willard is finding them. It is hard enough in open water, when you have a boat and sonar to hunt them down. Ice fishing you have to be lucky to set up in a spot where they might come through. They move around a lot. And then you also have to watch the sonar to know what depth they are suspending. Fishing on the bottom will pick up a few that are scrounging on the bottom for dead shad. But otherwise they cruise through somewhere between the top and the bottom. They will sometimes rise up to take a bait or lure but will seldom drop down in the water column to take something you are fishing below them.[/#0000ff]
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[cool][#0000ff]Short answer: NOPE[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Longer answer: They can be caught through the ice and a few guys do catch them. But most that are hooked are never pulled through the hole. They go round and round when hooked and either tangle you up with other anglers or saw your line off on the edge of the hole. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like most fish, wipers will bite when you locate them...if they are active. The big problem in Willard is finding them. It is hard enough in open water, when you have a boat and sonar to hunt them down. Ice fishing you have to be lucky to set up in a spot where they might come through. They move around a lot. And then you also have to watch the sonar to know what depth they are suspending. Fishing on the bottom will pick up a few that are scrounging on the bottom for dead shad. But otherwise they cruise through somewhere between the top and the bottom. They will sometimes rise up to take a bait or lure but will seldom drop down in the water column to take something you are fishing below them.[/#0000ff]
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