Willard Report

[slomofo]

Kind of new here, well I don't have any posts, but I've been reading for a few years. I've been actively fishing Willard for the past 3 weeks and shore fishing seems to be doing extremely well. If you go to the eastern most part of the far south levee, action is really heavy in the early morning up until around 2PM using worms & mussels. The water's not very deep, so I've been using heavy weight and walking about 10ft. into the water to cast my lines out. The south levee is a combination of small wipers, large wipers, and channel cats; I've heard reports of crappie but I haven't had any luck there with them. I'd honestly say I was catching fish at least once every 10 minutes from around 6AM to 8AM, then 1-2 per hour after that. I don't know about you guys, but I only eat small wipers because I like to pan fry them whole, so I usually catch my limit within the first half hour, then it's all catch and release from there. If you're looking for bigger fish, you'll probably catch and release about 40 small ones before you land the one you're looking for.

On the north west levee near the light pole I find the action to be really slow. I fish there from 10PM to 8AM. I only stick it out because there are some monsters over there, especially when the wind picks up. We went out this past Wednesday night starting around 2AM trying to catch some crappie after hearing numerous reports of giant crappie in the area. We caught dozens of really good sized wipers, one lone ranger carp, a giant bluegill, and a few channel cats. The highlight of the evening was this 22 incher, though we believe there were larger ones, but our lines kept snapping when they got to the shoreline so we can't know for sure:


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