# Willard was boiling hot this morning

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**Category:** Utah Fishing General\
**Created:** [August 22, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/willard-was-boiling-hot-this-morning/69498 "2005-08-22T19:25:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![fishwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c6cbf5/32.png) [@fishwriter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fishwriter)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/willard-was-boiling-hot-this-morning/69498/1 "2005-08-22T19:25:17Z")

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Got on the bay around 9:30 and trolled from the N marina to the area N of the feedlot. Got into a major boil at about 10:30 and caught wipers one right after another for about an hour until the wind picked up and blew me off the lake.

Caught the first one trolling a #4 jointed shad rap in a shad color black back silver body. When I saw the boils I started casting and it was “FISH ON” constantly. Caught about a dozen and released them all hoping they will grow up to be like the one caught down in Kansas in that other thread. What a hoot! No walleye however [unsure].

I hope the boils will really get going again like they did a couple weeks ago.

How late in the fall do the wipers and walleye stay active in Willard?

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**Author:** ![HFT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@HFT](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/HFT)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/willard-was-boiling-hot-this-morning/69498/2 "2005-08-22T19:56:27Z")

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How sweet. I thought they might be shut down from the storm,I guess not.

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**Author:** ![Old\_Coot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Old\_Coot](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Old_Coot)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/willard-was-boiling-hot-this-morning/69498/3 "2005-08-22T21:50:27Z")

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I’ve heard that the shad that the wipers chase go in cycles (size cycles). I don’t know how true it is but the guy that was telling me said they go in about 2-week cycles. Every two weeks a new batch of shad the right size emerge. It’s been about two weeks since the last good boils so maybe we are in for a week of “hoot”.

I predict that with the low/changing barometric pressure being replaced with smooth high pressure and the full moon getting smaller, I think we will start seeing more Willard reports like yours.

Boy, if I were back in High School doing a sicence project, I know just what my project woud be … “The Perfect Wiper Formula”.