# Catfishing Willard
**URL:** https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752
**Category:** Utah Fishing General
**Created:** [July 27, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752 "2013-07-27T19:23:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@tl23life](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/tl23life)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752/1 "2013-07-27T19:23:47Z")
Hey guys I am planning on going to Willard tonight to do some catfishing has anyone been night fishing for cats lately how’s it going what’s hot ? Any info would be greatly appericited Pms are fine. Also anyone tried catching walleye and wipers from shore at night? I will tell how I do tommrow thanks !
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### Author:  [@78Caddis](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/78Caddis)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752/2 "2013-07-27T23:19:10Z")
I was there Wed morning. Worms will work but cutbait will do too. Fished the southwest end and caught 5 bluegill, 1 wiper, and 1 channel. I didn’t move around like I should have. Reports I have read and heard are good for those with boats. I just used worms. Didn’t catch a carp for bait, oh well! Good luck and don’t forget the bug spray!
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### Author:  [@one8sevenn](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/one8sevenn)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752/3 "2013-07-30T22:41:31Z")
Frozen cheese dogs. I think the boaters occasionally drop some table scraps overboard. I have always had success with cheese dogs. Freeze them, so they stay on the hook better.
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### Author:  [@Tin-Can](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Tin-Can)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752/4 "2013-08-01T04:46:56Z")
I fished Willard last Friday morning (July 26) was trolling in a zig-zag kind-of south-east to north-west north of the island. Within the first 15 minutes on the water at about 6:40 AM hooked up a nice Walleye, then a Cat, then a small Wiper (released), then another Cat, another Walleye, another Wiper (released), then a nice keeper Wiper. Decided to take a break, tossed out the anchor, put up the sun top, baited up a couple lines with night crawlers on bottom rigs, and in less than 30 minutes had 3 more cats. Called it a day. But with the low water level, and the hot days, the cats seem to have moved out to relatively cooler, deeper water. Deepest spot I noticed was 14 feet out in the emptiness area north of the island and just about center between east and west walls. Water temp (surface) was 77 at 6 AM and by 1 PM as 88.
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### Author:  [@Jazzperch1](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Jazzperch1)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752/5 "2013-08-01T14:40:00Z")
slow day at Willard yesterday, 1 cat and 1 big wiper, no other bites.
warm water with less than a foot visibility.
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### Author:  [@tl23life](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/tl23life)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752/6 "2013-08-01T15:10:17Z")
Thanks for info guys I never did make it out well I got there one evening and it was white capping so bad I decided to turn around and go back home but I do feel like some catfishing this weekend so ill be ether at the bear river or Willard (: hope I get in to some
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### Author:  [@wiperhunter2](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/wiperhunter2)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752/7 "2013-08-01T22:50:44Z")
Hey JP1, were you fishing in your float tube or from shore?
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### Author:  [@Jazzperch1](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Jazzperch1)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/catfishing-willard/224752/8 "2013-08-02T12:35:11Z")
I was in a boat, we fished a few areas with a few bites.