Willard Bay Wednesday

[Tin-Can]

Been quite awhile since I posted here.  I've been hitting Willard from the south marina about once a week since late April. Total of 8 trips so far. First 5 trips were goose egg skunks. Then trip 6,7,8 have boated at least 1 Catfish. 
My son came up from Sunnyside Tuesday for a visit.  He hadn't been out in the boat with me for more than a year. So we got on Willard at 8 a.m. yesterday (Wednesday)  We dropped our trolling lines over just north-west of the south marina bouy line  heading toward the west wall at a slight agle. Running at 2.2 to 2.5 mph pulling cranks. Mine was a Fire Tiger lipped crank, think his first one was a Silver/Black rat-l-trap. Less than 20 minutes on the water  I got a hard hit and run on my line.  Medium size Wiper, released. Less than 11 minutes later a second hit, another Wiper, a bit smaller also released.  Son changed over to a Fire Tiger and we turned and trolled back thru area of first 2 hits, nada. Ran almost all the way to the west wall, nada, reversed course towards feed lot area, nada trolling.  Switched over to drifting with shrimp. Had several hard hits and bait strips till son got one Cat to stay hooked.  Also released. Good thing we released everything, south marina cleaning station was bagged up, closed for some reason.   Was a nice day on the water and at least no skunks.