Willard 10/30

[sk8heaven]

Headed to Willard early 10/30 - hit the water at 7:15. Thought I would see if we could scare up a walleye and headed to the NE corner and fished a few of the humps. Was just a wee bit brisk out there to say the least - I felt as though I was back in MN fishing the walleye opener! Water temp was 48 - warmed to 51 by the time I left at 2:00. Marked a few fish on the edges of the humps and started dragging crawler harnesses, and minnows on jigs. Had a couple of hits, but they didn't seem to want to do anything other than bump and drop. I had noticed a few fish on the finder between the humps I was fishing hanging out at about 10-12 feet over 19 feet, so we threw on some diving Rapalas and first pass through had a nice 21" wiper. Next pass, a double header - two 19 inchers. Needless to say, the walleyes were forgotten - it was wiper time! Two more passes, two more fish. Then, the wind switched from NE to NW and we were pretty much done catching for the day... sure was glad I had hit it early or I would have missed out on the wipers we did catch. I did hook one more.....?????? at the mouth of the harbor - not sure what it was when I landed it and did not have my camera. It looked like what we used to call "skipjacks" in North Dakota - goldeye I think is their real name. Are these in Willard???
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