Willard Bay trip #4

[Tin-Can]

I meet you at the ramp this morning, was a nice morning to be out until we motored over to Freeway Bay and got into the jungle of BUGS. We caught 1 wally on the south wall keeping the ole smell out of the boat this morning.

   Yes we did.  Didn't talk long and you either didn't toss me your BFT name or I missed catching it, kind of like missing catching more fish.      Glad you booted your skunk. 

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Hi Forest. 1 kitty beats a skunk any day. I took my toon out to the south marina and was fishing by 8 this mornling. A couple kitties just off the boat ramp as I turned north toward the channel. Found some more after I came out of the marina and headed north. Looks like they're moving onto the rocks to spawn. A couple were almost black and had lots of fresh wounds. After a ways, I turned around and started back towards the marina. Found a couple more dumb ones along with a grundle of SMBs. Once in the channel I caught a final kitty almost next to the single bouy that claims boats aren't allowed. The first two came on cut bait. The rest sucked up a purple Chrystal bugger. Don't tell the governor how much fun catfish are on a flyrod. If he figured that one out he'd slap a sin tax on it.

Man I am glad to hear they are starting to push to the rocks. Sure can be fun for us bank tanglers when they join us on our chairs

  FB
   I thought I saw a toon off in the distance from me at one point,  but unless it's bright red and covered with PVC like TD's tube,  I would not have recognized it.  Glad you did well  with the Cats and Smallies. 

  CBP 
   There were a few rock hoppers on the south wall - west of the marina channel and I think I spotted one or two way out on the west wall near the light pole.  That one Cat I caught was about 30 yards off the south wall, about 200 yards west of the marina channel.  Kinda wish I had gotten in closer to the wall sooner in the day, but the bugs were pretty intense. Not quite so bad while I was out in the open and at least moving.  

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Forest that is fishing.  You never know if the fish are going to cooperate.  You are good about posting your trips, even when you don't catch much. 

A couple of weeks ago I had a skunk at Willard with my family.  Granted it was right after a cold front had moved through and I knew I had a slim chance of catching anything. I didn't even post that trip. The only saving grace from that trip was the trip to Maddox afterwards for chicken at the outside drive up. Yum!

I enjoy your posts. Keep them coming.

   Well, I usually post the bad days as well as the good. Even the bad fishing days can be either learned from, or provide some comic relief.  Especially at Willard when the power squadron is putting on the water.      Plus it adds to my BFT message post total...........      

Yesterday's comic relief:  Coming into the south marina, there was a wake board boat, maybe 3 guys on it, stern way back up against the north bank area in the submerged brush, there was an electric bow mount on the front, and a danforth type anchor hanging just of the bow, but out of the water. Anchor had lots of brush and twigs still stuck in it.  It looked to me like they had maybe gotten their stern drive in too shallow of water and couldn't risk running it, so had maybe been trying to pull out of the shallows with the bow mount, and that had not worked so they may have been throwing their anchor out of the bow and attempting to pull themselves out of the shallows on a hooked anchor.  
As I went by them, I asked if they were "stuck". Would have towed them out, but they all said "no, we're ok" so I went on about my business of getting out and heading home.