07-30-2012, 11:52 AM
[cool][#0000ff]You've been catching too many walleyes anyway. You needed a reality check and a bite of humble pie. Willard is never nice to ANYBODY...all the time.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Ya gotta taste the bitter to appreciate the sweet.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Good to hear the shad are showing up well again. The last couple of years it has seemed that they suddenly just filled the lake...and the fishing sorta got tougher about the same time. Might be a correlation there. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]On Willard and other waters I have found that when food is plentiful the feeding patterns change. The fish tend to glut for a short time once or twice a day and then go inactive while they digest their big meals. Gets harder to figure out where and when they will go on the chew and to be there when they do. Very frustrating to show lots of promising marks on the sonar without going bendo.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As the shadlets get bigger the potential for boils gets better. But it seems that only the smaller wipers wanna play on top this year...so far.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Ya gotta taste the bitter to appreciate the sweet.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Good to hear the shad are showing up well again. The last couple of years it has seemed that they suddenly just filled the lake...and the fishing sorta got tougher about the same time. Might be a correlation there. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]On Willard and other waters I have found that when food is plentiful the feeding patterns change. The fish tend to glut for a short time once or twice a day and then go inactive while they digest their big meals. Gets harder to figure out where and when they will go on the chew and to be there when they do. Very frustrating to show lots of promising marks on the sonar without going bendo.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As the shadlets get bigger the potential for boils gets better. But it seems that only the smaller wipers wanna play on top this year...so far.[/#0000ff]
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