09-15-2025, 12:45 PM
I moved here to Utah in about the same timeframe 1976. Took me several years to start fishing Willard, after I bought my first boat in 79, started catching some of those big cats, trolling the shore line. When Tom Pettingale(sp?) first got the DWR to start planting wipers it was a total blast, we would catch them in the propwash of the trolling motor, not more than 10 ft behind the boat and the boils were hard to believe, how big they were and how long they went on for. My arms and shoulders would be sore after fishing for them back in those days. Sure a lot of changes since then. Good memories Pat, Thanks for sharing.