08-18-2003, 07:07 AM
The reason I ask if you had a fish finder was, I wanted to know the depth of the west dike, the area south of the light pole is the deepest part of Willard. Did you get a chance to get a reading from that area?
We tried to launch from the beach area, south of north marina today but it was too far to the water, so we went back to the marina and launched there. There is so much junk out of the water now it is hard to believe. We trolled to the S/E corner and saw over a dozen tires on that side, then we headed to the north dike where we saw what seemed like hundreds of birds diving and over a dozen snowy egrets but no wipers. As we trolled to the north marina we saw two raccoons and half a dozen old christmas trees with tires around them on the shoreline and we ended up catching one wiper about 1/2 mile before the N/E corner. Willard sure isn't like the Willard of Old anymore. Just last year BLM and I were slaying the wipers on the west dike but this year it is hard to even reach the west dike. WH2
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We tried to launch from the beach area, south of north marina today but it was too far to the water, so we went back to the marina and launched there. There is so much junk out of the water now it is hard to believe. We trolled to the S/E corner and saw over a dozen tires on that side, then we headed to the north dike where we saw what seemed like hundreds of birds diving and over a dozen snowy egrets but no wipers. As we trolled to the north marina we saw two raccoons and half a dozen old christmas trees with tires around them on the shoreline and we ended up catching one wiper about 1/2 mile before the N/E corner. Willard sure isn't like the Willard of Old anymore. Just last year BLM and I were slaying the wipers on the west dike but this year it is hard to even reach the west dike. WH2
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