07-10-2020, 04:38 PM
The only thing consistent about Willard is inconsistency. Forget what worked last week...or even yesterday. Seems like every trip requires the "biblical system"...seek and ye shall find...maybe.
We Willardites have acquired and perfected a whole range of potential excuses...for "those days". Our bummer days were the result of moon phase, water temps, heavy boat traffic, wind or other weather phenomena, spawn cycles, food overabundance, lack of food, wrong lures, wrong depth, holding mouth wrong, etc. And on some days we can apply just about all of them.
Inquiring minds wanna know. Were you not finding fish...or were you finding a lot of fish with lockjaw? Also, the larger fish you could see on sonar...what seemed to be their preferred cruising depth...on or above the bottom...at in what depths of water?
One thing that has seemed to develop in years past is that the fish will typically be more active at one time of day rather than the others. Not sure if it is a moon phase (tides), weather patterns, light/dark situation, bait (shad) location and activity or what. But there are some days when it is an early morning bite...and other days when it is midday or late bite. And those patterns may remain the same for several days...or not. Those wascally wipers and walleyes pretty much do whatever they want...according to their own schedules.
I have been trying to get back up there to try out some new goodies I have been playing with. But Mama Nature keeps having hot flashes and/or hissy fits and my float tube prefers calmer and more comfy conditions. Maybe next week some day. Maybe.
We Willardites have acquired and perfected a whole range of potential excuses...for "those days". Our bummer days were the result of moon phase, water temps, heavy boat traffic, wind or other weather phenomena, spawn cycles, food overabundance, lack of food, wrong lures, wrong depth, holding mouth wrong, etc. And on some days we can apply just about all of them.
Inquiring minds wanna know. Were you not finding fish...or were you finding a lot of fish with lockjaw? Also, the larger fish you could see on sonar...what seemed to be their preferred cruising depth...on or above the bottom...at in what depths of water?
One thing that has seemed to develop in years past is that the fish will typically be more active at one time of day rather than the others. Not sure if it is a moon phase (tides), weather patterns, light/dark situation, bait (shad) location and activity or what. But there are some days when it is an early morning bite...and other days when it is midday or late bite. And those patterns may remain the same for several days...or not. Those wascally wipers and walleyes pretty much do whatever they want...according to their own schedules.
I have been trying to get back up there to try out some new goodies I have been playing with. But Mama Nature keeps having hot flashes and/or hissy fits and my float tube prefers calmer and more comfy conditions. Maybe next week some day. Maybe.