08-14-2010, 01:46 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Almost any diving crankbait works well along the rocky shorelines...for cats, wipers, walleyes, smallies, etc. Everything in Willard eats mudbugs and there are a lot of them during the years of higher water when the water stays up in the rocks. But, there are not many places where there are enough to count on catching a bunch with traps. They stay back in the cover to keep from being on the menu for the predators.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you can find a few crawdads they are definitely worth using for bait. I have found them in the innards of just about every species of fish in the lake.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]But, you don't need to risk losing high dollar hardbaits. Craw colored tubes and grubs work just as well if you put them in the right place and work them right. Count on some snags. Tip them with crawlers (smell like crawdads) and/or shoot on some crawdad scent for extra attraction. Use light heads to reduce the number of snags. In fact, you can even fish tubes and twisters weightless right next to the rocks and rig them Texas style for added snag resistance.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you can find a few crawdads they are definitely worth using for bait. I have found them in the innards of just about every species of fish in the lake.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]But, you don't need to risk losing high dollar hardbaits. Craw colored tubes and grubs work just as well if you put them in the right place and work them right. Count on some snags. Tip them with crawlers (smell like crawdads) and/or shoot on some crawdad scent for extra attraction. Use light heads to reduce the number of snags. In fact, you can even fish tubes and twisters weightless right next to the rocks and rig them Texas style for added snag resistance.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Good luck.[/#0000ff]
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