Willard ... 6-6-08

[Old_Coot]

[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2][#002850]Had an opportunity fish Willard today with Petty4Life. It has been a while since we have got out together and today it was good to get out on the lake again.

We launched at about 8:30 this morning to a pretty decent “walleye chop”. Fishing was slow but after about an hour, Jason’s first fish of the day was the biggest: [/#002850][/size][/font]
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Then the bite went kind of dead for another hour or so until the wind died down. Once the water smoothed out a bit, and Jason made an adjustment in lures, he started reeling in a few walleyes but no more wipers. One eye was about 21” and should make for some tasty fish fries:[/#002850][/size][/font]
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His first walleye fought hard enough to make him wonder if he didn’t have a wiper on:

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I thought I was going to come home empty handed but I finally managed to scratch up a wiper.

At the cleaning station I took a pic of the stringer about to be filleted. Jason’s wiper was a toad. Compare it to my full sized fillet knife:

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On our way in, we encountered some pretty big waves. Made the trip in slow and concerning. Took about 30 minutes to get from the feed lot to the marina because of large, hard to navigate, side waves.

The fishing was a bit slow today and the water temp was about 61 degrees. I replaced my transducer last night and now I finaly have a water temp reading.

I suspect that the next run of sustained high-pressure will bring some fantastic wiper fishing out on Willard. And you can bet I’ll be there to get in on it. June is one of my two favorite months to do the Willard gig.

Thanks Jason for joining me today and for showing me some tricks and tips on my fish finder. I guess Lowrances arn't so bad after all.[/#002850][/size][/font]
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[lavaman]

Fantastic pics, you two! I need to catch me a Wiper one of these times! Never have. That one is a Toad!
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[mactuna]

Reel nice.
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[Jacksonman]

Sorry for the transducer problem.[] Glad you are still out slayin them. Catch a few for me.
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[FishNCoach]

Nice day for you[cool], Glad you made it in safe I too know what it is like to battle the waves out there[:/], see ya soon.[laugh]
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[Johnr]

Thanks for the great report, I am going to try to get up there on Sunday. I sure hope the water warms up a bit soon, as it seems like June is spring right now. Anyway, I hope you have a great weekend. I am finally out of sales and that dreaded schedule, I now have a normal Mon.-Fri. job and I am really enjoying two days off in a row. Everyone have a great day! Sincerely John R.
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[petty4life]

Thanks for the trip Ralph. thats my first fish of the year at willard.
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[Bait_Caster]

[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000000]Nice report "Coot". WOW Jason, you hooked into a nice pig, for your first Wiper of the yr, [][/#000000][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"] Good on you guys, Oh ya; got to love the Willard white caps!! [:p][/font]
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[MGB]

Nice report guys ! The walleyes are bigger and better fishter this year.

Jason, those look like the same ones I caught last week, its a good thing I released them or maybe you would of got skunked. []
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[bigbow81]

Very nice Ralph!!!!! What were you useing?
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[wiperhunter2]

Nice report guys, lets just hope the weather & catching is a little better next week end[]. Did either one of you measure that big one?
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[Old_Coot]

[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2][#002850]Bigbow81 ... I was using good old Rapala. The two best colors/styles that worked were two that another guy turned me onto and he made me promise not to advertize it. So until I see him telling others on the Internet, I guess I got to keep it on the down low.
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[MRCRESTLINER]

Nice fish, congrats. The wife and I are going to try and make it out tomorrow, our only other trip was a couple weeks ago and we only picked up two wipers with a couple misses. We are headed to Alaska for two weeks the end of the month looking forward to that, it will be our first trip there.[cool]
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[petty4life]

wiper was 21" and biggest walleye was 20"
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[POWMOW1]

bet you had a good time too bad you had to look at jason all day if you see him soon please punch him in the kidneys for me
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[Jig_Jrk]

Hi! old coot, this is jig
Hi! old coot. This is jig_jrk I was very happy to read your report for the sixth on willard.I am bait_caster's buddy Curt Egbert hope to hook up soon.











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