03-26-2019, 11:32 PM
Got out to Willard today with Wiperslayer and decided to try a different part of the lake, so we headed to the SW corner. We were fligging it on a slow troll, .5 mph. It took us an hour to find some active fish, little after 8:30 am we found them and it was game on. Ira wanted to get a cat on his new 14' rod and they did not disappoint. Ira got the first 4 cats before I got my first one, after discovering his secret bait, then it was back a forth on who would catch the most for the rest of the day. Before we got off the water around 1pm we caught two that were 24". The predictions were a strong wind would come up around 11 or 12 but it never happened and it turned out to be a very nice day. Saw a number of boats in the area we were fishing but was very surprised when we returned to the South marina and there were over a dozen boats trailers in the parking lot.
DWR have gill nets in the channel before you get to the baffles, undoubtedly trying to catch the eyes before they get to the snag fest at the end. That new parking lot was almost full of cars and trucks trying to get in out "snag a lot" going on there at the end of channel[
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Hopefully the eye bite will turn on in the main part of the lake before long but it likely won't, until the spawn is over. Water temp got up to 48 degrees today around 1pm.
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DWR have gill nets in the channel before you get to the baffles, undoubtedly trying to catch the eyes before they get to the snag fest at the end. That new parking lot was almost full of cars and trucks trying to get in out "snag a lot" going on there at the end of channel[
].Hopefully the eye bite will turn on in the main part of the lake before long but it likely won't, until the spawn is over. Water temp got up to 48 degrees today around 1pm.
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