06-17-2003, 03:37 AM
[#ff0000]I took two of my boys that didn't have fishing licenses over to Willard to try the Wipers for the first time Saturday evening. We caught 9 Wipers and 1 Walleye on lipless cranks. We trolled anywhere from 1/2 to ten MPH and seemed to have the most strikes from 1-3. (The Walleye took a producer while we were goofing around surging to 10 MPH!) We tried Producer prisms, a small Rapala about a quarter of the size of a producer, and some Japanese thing with a belly full of BB's. Did about the same on the first two and nothing on the imported BB belly. We tried to find the island but didn't see a buoy, or bottom out, or catch fish or anything where it was supposed to be. I think we found the light pole - you can only see half of the top of it some distance off on the East side, right? We were only catching one about every half hour maybe from a quarter to half mile out from the light pole but they were 20+ inches. I was holding my pole with one of them, with spider wire that caught along my wedding ring, when one of them hit. I don't know which was screaming louder, my drag or me as my finger was about sawn off - note to self.... We followed the crowd across to the West side along the section where I-15 comes closest to the dike and the catching was faster but they were much smaller. Almost every boat around had a fish on at any given time. We kept a few to fillet, will be interesting to see how they fry up. As we were trailering the boat at dusk my 14 year old said, "Dad, trout fishing is stupid!" Thus announcing the birth of another Wiper fanatic. [/#ff0000]
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