07-31-2007, 10:56 AM
[cool][#0000ff]No doubt about it. That was a good sized kitty for Willard these days. It used to be common for me to catch a lot of 5 to 10 pound cats each year, with several over 10. But that 6er was the biggest I have caught from Willard since I moved back to Utah 3 years ago.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Some days, after a big blow, Willard has looked like chocolate milk. Yesterday it was "stained", but still had some visibility. Not enough to encourage wild sight feeding by the wipers, but good enough for slow trolling or for working high visibility colors like chartreuse or fire tiger.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The water level inside the launch area at the south marina is LOWWWWWW. We launched our tubes at the north ramp, and the deepest water we found was only 2' on the way to the channel. And, there are some big rocks only a short ways out from the ramp...right about where your motor would be when you launch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There was one guy there when we showed up. He had about a 14 foot boat...not very big. But, he had big tires on the trailer and he could not back the boat out far enough on any of the three ramps to get the boat to float off the trailer. He finally got launched with the help of another guy who helped him work the boat off, in the deepest spot on the south ramp. Then, they both used their paddles to push pole their boats out to water deep enough to lower their motors. I don't know how they got the boats back on the trailers without the motors.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There were several other rigs that came down while we were fishing, and gave up trying to launch. As you can see in the attached picture, the parking lot was bare of boat trailers when we came in at noon.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Some days, after a big blow, Willard has looked like chocolate milk. Yesterday it was "stained", but still had some visibility. Not enough to encourage wild sight feeding by the wipers, but good enough for slow trolling or for working high visibility colors like chartreuse or fire tiger.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The water level inside the launch area at the south marina is LOWWWWWW. We launched our tubes at the north ramp, and the deepest water we found was only 2' on the way to the channel. And, there are some big rocks only a short ways out from the ramp...right about where your motor would be when you launch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There was one guy there when we showed up. He had about a 14 foot boat...not very big. But, he had big tires on the trailer and he could not back the boat out far enough on any of the three ramps to get the boat to float off the trailer. He finally got launched with the help of another guy who helped him work the boat off, in the deepest spot on the south ramp. Then, they both used their paddles to push pole their boats out to water deep enough to lower their motors. I don't know how they got the boats back on the trailers without the motors.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There were several other rigs that came down while we were fishing, and gave up trying to launch. As you can see in the attached picture, the parking lot was bare of boat trailers when we came in at noon.[/#0000ff]
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