# Fliging Willard Friday
**URL:** https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982
**Category:** Utah Fishing General
**Created:** [September 10, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982 "2022-09-10T20:40:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982/1 "2022-09-10T21:11:14Z")
\*\*Not hard to figure out why you weren’t killing them. You were fishing from a boat…not a float tube. \*\*
**Seriously, fishing fligs is simple but there are a lot of potential refinements and modifications that can improve the odds. I’ve been playing with them for years and have learned a lot…but still learn new things on almost every trip.**
**If you are up for some auditory abuse (me whining about fishing from a boat) I’d be glad to join you sometime to at least expose you to some of the stuff I think I know.**
**Good to see you score a walleye. They should get more active in shallower water as the temps drop a bit. And they do eat fligs.**
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### Author:  [@2knots](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/2knots)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982/2 "2022-09-11T00:24:17Z")
Well done guys
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### Author:  [@fast\_randy](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fast_randy)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982/3 "2022-09-12T01:16:11Z")
That was the only time I ever was on the only boat on Willard. It was a great day with Shawn. We always have a good time. But a full moon and dead or half dead 1 1/4 inch shad minnows everywhere assured us slow fishing.
Pat, I still haven’t broke my flig virginity. I need help also. I tried every weerily flig color. And just regular fligs. Yours and mine. I tried a white flig with gulp minnows and worms and perch meat. So I hope I can go with you and Shawn for a lesson.
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### Author:  [@obifishkenobi](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/obifishkenobi)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982/4 "2022-09-12T01:59:59Z")
> [@TubeDude](#):
>
> \*\*Not hard to figure out why you weren’t killing them. You were fishing from a boat…not a float tube. \*\*
>
> **Seriously, fishing fligs is simple but there are a lot of potential refinements and modifications that can improve the odds. I’ve been playing with them for years and have learned a lot…but still learn new things on almost every trip.**
>
> **If you are up for some auditory abuse (me whining about fishing from a boat) I’d be glad to join you sometime to at least expose you to some of the stuff I think I know.**
>
> **Good to see you score a walleye. They should get more active in shallower water as the temps drop a bit. And they do eat fligs.**
>
> Any chance your available this Friday to give Randy and I a tutorial?
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### Author:  [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982/5 "2022-09-12T20:48:42Z")
> [@obifishkenobi](#):
>
> > [@TubeDude](#):
> >
>
> \*\*Not hard to figure out why you weren’t killing them. You were fishing from a boat…not a float tube. \*\*
>
> **Seriously, fishing fligs is simple but there are a lot of potential refinements and modifications that can improve the odds. I’ve been playing with them for years and have learned a lot…but still learn new things on almost every trip.**
>
> **If you are up for some auditory abuse (me whining about fishing from a boat) I’d be glad to join you sometime to at least expose you to some of the stuff I think I know.**
>
> **Good to see you score a walleye. They should get more active in shallower water as the temps drop a bit. And they do eat fligs.**
>
> Any chance your available this Friday to give Randy and I a tutorial?
>
> **Yeah, I could be there. But I could almost guarantee a better time if you wait until the following Thursday or Friday. This Friday will be right after a weather system…so the fish will be unsettled and the water will likely be murky from the winds. However, if your schedule only allows for next Friday I can make it happen.**
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### Author:  [@obifishkenobi](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/obifishkenobi)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982/6 "2022-09-14T14:54:16Z")
> [@TubeDude](#):
>
> > [@obifishkenobi](#):
> >
>
> > [@TubeDude](#):
> >
>
> \*\*Not hard to figure out why you weren’t killing them. You were fishing from a boat…not a float tube. \*\*
>
> **Seriously, fishing fligs is simple but there are a lot of potential refinements and modifications that can improve the odds. I’ve been playing with them for years and have learned a lot…but still learn new things on almost every trip.**
>
> **If you are up for some auditory abuse (me whining about fishing from a boat) I’d be glad to join you sometime to at least expose you to some of the stuff I think I know.**
>
> **Good to see you score a walleye. They should get more active in shallower water as the temps drop a bit. And they do eat fligs.**
>
> Any chance your available this Friday to give Randy and I a tutorial?
>
> **Yeah, I could be there. But I could almost guarantee a better time if you wait until the following Thursday or Friday. This Friday will be right after a weather system…so the fish will be unsettled and the water will likely be murky from the winds. However, if your schedule only allows for next Friday I can make it happen.**
>
> Ok ill take your advice and hit you up again in a couple weeks maybe we can make it out in October and the water will be cooler as well waking up the walleyes and wipers. I am really looking forward to fishing with you.
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### Author:  [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982/7 "2022-09-14T15:30:41Z")
> [@obifishkenobi](#):
>
> Ok ill take your advice and hit you up again in a couple weeks maybe we can make it out in October and the water will be cooler as well waking up the walleyes and wipers. I am really looking forward to fishing with you.
>
> **October into the first of December can be great. Once the water cools the predators become more active. And you don’t have to troll at mach 3 to catch them. Slow trolling a wide variety of stuff more slowly…like fligs…can put all the usual species in the boat. I have made some of my best catches of larger walleyes and wipers then. Plus, the big perch will be schooling up by then too. I also am looking forward to us getting together…finally. I may hit it in my tube around the end of next week.**
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> **Here are pictures of a walleye, a wiper and a crappie I caught on the same late fall day one year…right around the entrance to the north marina.**
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> ]([MY MY A WALLEYE — Postimages](https://postimg.cc/m1BbSn26)) [](https://postimg.cc/4YDn9Btj) [](https://postimg.cc/xJRdBQ7S)
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> \*\*
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### Author:  [@obifishkenobi](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/obifishkenobi)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/fliging-willard-friday/457982/8 "2022-09-10T20:40:27Z")
Randy and I had Willard all to our self Friday. We launched from the north marina in the dark and ran over to the feed lot and started dragging various fligs tipped with a variety of baits in about 8’ of water after going more than an hour without a bite we decided to run out to the west but the farther west we went the windier it got, so after fishing a few minutes I consulted my wind app which showed that the east side was flat so we went back close to where we started but a little farther out off the dike. We got our first cat at 9:25 and then picked up 2 more cats the largest 24” and a 22” Waleye over the next couple hours. They where all caught on perch from last winter. Fire tiger and silver blue flig both produced. I have managed to catch a few fliging but have yet to have what I would consider a good day. I think I need to get out with one of you flig pros and figure out what I’m doing wrong.
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