10-23-2012, 10:19 AM
[cool][#0000ff]I know you remember the big drawdown when they were working on the dike. That happened about this time of year. I was down by the outlet, taking pics for future reference and met a GOB (good ol' boy) who was wading along the exposed mud shoreline. He had a couple of wipers and two or three nice walleye on a stringer in the water beside him. He was slinging out a 3" white tube jig and just dragging it slowly on the bottom. No action or swimming...just dragging. Claimed that was how he always fished Willard in the fall and that he always caught fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Since then I have worked that into my routine, only I often use a 3" white or pearl Shad Grub from Barlows. And I have caught fish that way. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When the water gets too cold for the wipers to chase warp speed cranks the walleyes seem to get more active...sometimes. I wish there was some kind of chart (or phone app) that would tell us exactly what to use and where to fish under any given set of conditions. But then that would take all the FUN out of being skunked and we would have to give up our memberships in Masochists Anonymous. Oh yeah, that's where masochists go to get drunk together.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Since then I have worked that into my routine, only I often use a 3" white or pearl Shad Grub from Barlows. And I have caught fish that way. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When the water gets too cold for the wipers to chase warp speed cranks the walleyes seem to get more active...sometimes. I wish there was some kind of chart (or phone app) that would tell us exactly what to use and where to fish under any given set of conditions. But then that would take all the FUN out of being skunked and we would have to give up our memberships in Masochists Anonymous. Oh yeah, that's where masochists go to get drunk together.[/#0000ff]
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