willard bay bust

[Jazzperch1]

went to willard bay for some ice fishing on sunday. and what a mistake it was, we got there at 7 am and proceeded to fish in 17 ft of water just off the boat ramp. right when i dropped down i got bite but nothing worthy for a hook set. after sitting there for an hour or so i tried a different spot by some boat docks with some structure. we fished there for 2 hours, we had fish coming through every once in a while but they wouldnt take it, just little nibbles like they were smelling are bait or something, really really light bites. the lightest ive ever had ice fishing. dont know whatthey were i assume perch or mmaybe some gills. knowone else out there that was fishing caught a dang thing. one guy had one crappie get off at the hole and he about started to cry cause it was probly the only action he had all day. he was using jigs with crappie nuggets for bait, i on the other hand tried everything in my arsenal tipped with waxie. i wonder if they would like frozen minnows there instead since the abundance of shad. there was an open spot of water in the middle with about 10 dead shad floating in it,strange.
so if your planning on willard my advice would be to stay home, cause even if i would have snagged any fish on those lite bites i would have only iced 4 0r 5 in 6 hours of fishin. not very good.


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