](WILLARD LAUNCH — Postimages) Recent experience and reports from others told me the fish would be in 10-12 feet of water. So that’s where I started dragging my fligs. At 9:30 I had covered a whole lotta water with only a couple of feeble pop and drops. And my sonar showed a mostly empty water column in those depths. It was like the great Willard desert. ** ** As other have heard me say (too often)…”Ya cain’t ketch ‘em where they ain’t.” Since water temps had bounced up a couple of degrees I reasoned that the water would be slightly warmer in shallower water than where I had been fishing. So I motored in to as little as 3 feet of water and then started fishing my way back out deeper. ** ** When I got between 5 and 6 feet of depth one of my rods went bendo and I killed the skunk with a chunky kitty. And as soon as I had it off my line and in my basket the other rod bounced and I was fighting another kitty. ** Over the next couple of hours I landed a total of 6 cats…keeping 4 for a couple of meals of kittie krispies. I had an orange tiger flig on one rod and a pink tiger flig on the other. And I caught 3 cats on each. That’s only fair. ** No walleyes or wipers were harmed in the making of this report. And I doubt the boaters did much better. I noticed they were all moving around a lot and not staying in any one area very long. And the couple I talked to back at the ramp confirmed that. Nada. I was outta there and on my way home a bit after noon…for an old man’s nap.LINK TO VIDEO
As usual, great report, pics and video Pat. In the one photo where is shows you holding up the cat and the dike is in the back ground, it sure looks like a long didtance to the dike, so you were that far from the dike and still in 5 to 6 FOW? We did get a couple of cats on a drop off area were the depth went from 8 or 9 Ft to 10 FOW seemed some were hanging right there but most were in 10 to 11 FOW, on the flat areas. After reading a couple of reports from shore anglers, I was thinking they might be in water that was a lot more shallow, glad to read you found them there.
](WILLARD LAUNCH — Postimages) Recent experience and reports from others told me the fish would be in 10-12 feet of water. So that’s where I started dragging my fligs. At 9:30 I had covered a whole lotta water with only a couple of feeble pop and drops. And my sonar showed a mostly empty water column in those depths. It was like the great Willard desert. ** ** As other have heard me say (too often)…”Ya cain’t ketch ‘em where they ain’t.” Since water temps had bounced up a couple of degrees I reasoned that the water would be slightly warmer in shallower water than where I had been fishing. So I motored in to as little as 3 feet of water and then started fishing my way back out deeper. ** ** When I got between 5 and 6 feet of depth one of my rods went bendo and I killed the skunk with a chunky kitty. And as soon as I had it off my line and in my basket the other rod bounced and I was fighting another kitty. ** Over the next couple of hours I landed a total of 6 cats…keeping 4 for a couple of meals of kittie krispies. I had an orange tiger flig on one rod and a pink tiger flig on the other. And I caught 3 cats on each. That’s only fair. ** No walleyes or wipers were harmed in the making of this report. And I doubt the boaters did much better. I noticed they were all moving around a lot and not staying in any one area very long. And the couple I talked to back at the ramp confirmed that. Nada. I was outta there and on my way home a bit after noon…for an old man’s nap.LINK TO VIDEO Enjoyed the movie only missing one thing, where is the deafening, skull cracking hard rock music that everyone likes to crank it up to 10. Other than that Great job. [/quote]
Recent experience and reports from others told me the fish would be in 10-12 feet of water. So that’s where I started dragging my fligs. At 9:30 I had covered a whole lotta water with only a couple of feeble pop and drops. And my sonar showed a mostly empty water column in those depths. It was like the great Willard desert. ** ** As other have heard me say (too often)…”Ya cain’t ketch ‘em where they ain’t.” Since water temps had bounced up a couple of degrees I reasoned that the water would be slightly warmer in shallower water than where I had been fishing. So I motored in to as little as 3 feet of water and then started fishing my way back out deeper. ** ** When I got between 5 and 6 feet of depth one of my rods went bendo and I killed the skunk with a chunky kitty. And as soon as I had it off my line and in my basket the other rod bounced and I was fighting another kitty. ** 
Over the next couple of hours I landed a total of 6 cats…keeping 4 for a couple of meals of kittie krispies. I had an orange tiger flig on one rod and a pink tiger flig on the other. And I caught 3 cats on each. That’s only fair. ** 
No walleyes or wipers were harmed in the making of this report. And I doubt the boaters did much better. I noticed they were all moving around a lot and not staying in any one area very long. And the couple I talked to back at the ramp confirmed that. Nada. I was outta there and on my way home a bit after noon…for an old man’s nap. LINK TO VIDEO