Newbie Tuber Scores at Willard 9-15-23 (With Video)

[TubeDude]

Way to go, good to hear you both had successful trips. Glad to read your latest addition to the flig arsenal have proven successful yet again Pat. Were you using a piece of crawler or chub for bait on the drop back flig? Pretty amazing how the shad look like a big fish on the finder.

You can use any kind of bait...worms, cut bait or minnows.  I caught perch on worm baited drop-back fligs last week at Rockport...and the week before at Deer Creek.  But on Willard I was using small chub minnows...as in the pic below.  But I know that a small piece of chub cut from a larger chub would work as well.



And yes, that shot of the shad was amazing.  Just happened to look down and see it...and get a shot of it...before it disappeared off the other side.  Never seen anything like that before.  Now if I see one that looks like a big catfish, I'm gonna get off the lake.