# Willard last night

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**Category:** Utah Fishing General\
**Created:** [May 23, 2005, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/willard-last-night/64392 "2005-05-23T12:35:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![icefool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ec9cab/32.png) [@icefool](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/icefool)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/willard-last-night/64392/1 "2005-05-23T12:35:29Z")

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Hit the west dike around 6:30 last night. We managed to get 3 to shore, had a few more hook ups but didn’t get them in. Yes I agree they are acting funny with the lures. We had plenty checking the lures out but not hitting them. We could see them chasing it.

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**Author:** ![wiperhunter2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3d9bf3/32.png) [@wiperhunter2](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/wiperhunter2)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/willard-last-night/64392/2 "2005-05-24T09:31:36Z")

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Thanks for the report Sandy, was there any size to the wipers? How bad was the bugs? WH2

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**Author:** ![icefool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ec9cab/32.png) [@icefool](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/icefool)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/willard-last-night/64392/3 "2005-05-24T12:51:02Z")

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The ones we got were between 18 and 20 inches. The bugs were bad but I have seen them worse. Because the water is so high you are pretty much standing right where they are.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/1/8/180926762da1240f76b2aed5515c2fc9f63c17e0.png) [@system](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/willard-last-night/64392/4 "2005-05-24T14:22:52Z")

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My son and I float tubed Willard last night for the last two hours of daylight. We were in the southeast corner. I had one rod rigged for walleye with a bottom walking sinker and a worm harness with silver spinner blade, and the other rod rigged for wiper with a charteuse Storm wildeye curly tail minnow. I caught one small walleye on the wiper setup, and two small catfish on the walleye setup. My son got a couple of hits but didn’t hook up.

Yes, the bugs were really bad. Midges, not mosquitoes. We thought it would be better once we got out on the water a ways, but I think it was worse out there. We were totally covered with them. It was a nice sunset though, and a beautiful evening on the water.