Willard Bay Friday and Sunday 4/30 and 5/2/2021

[Mildog]

Hit Willard a couple days to try for some walleye and wipers.
Fished Friday afternoon by myself with some help from my fishing boat companion “Bella”.
Got on the water about 1pm hoping warming temps would turn the fish on. When I arrived temp was about 60 degrees (which I was hoping for, sort of a magic number) by the time I left at at about 4:45 it was 66 degrees in main lake. Action did not disappoint, I ended up with 4 nice walleye no Wipers. I used   
Lipless and deep diving crank baits trolling at 2 MPH, it took about an hour for first fish then hit another. Both fish on Rat l trap blue chrome. So I changed out the deep runner and put on a Steelshad blade lure in shad color and got 2 more. It was very warm on Friday. The dog was getting hot so I decided to quit with the 4 walleye and drop the dog in for he obligatory swim and retrieve session, then head home.
I’ll take 4 walleye in just over 3 hours for the first trip out anytime. 15 to 16 foot depth was best did not mark a ton of fish, a few marks on the bottom and fewer but I did mark some suspended. Caught ALL of the fish midway in the water column on Steelshad and Rat l Trap, I did see 2 strikes I missed as well.
Decided to run up Sunday since it was pretty good in Friday. Much cooler Sunday when the two of us got on the water, quite different than Friday which made me nervous. Water temp only 54 and only made it up to 59 by the time we left. We managed 1 nice Wiper 4.75 pounds and a chunky walleye. Had a cool breeze and a few rain drops much of the day on Sunday. Crappie action was good on Friday, although I did not fish for them, Sunday with the cooler air and water temps it was slower for the crappie we caught a couple and saw a fair number of other caught but much slower than Friday.







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