Tough at Willard

[Bubman1]

Last two trips have been really slow for me at the bay. Managed a few small cats last night and that was it saw a few shad breaking the surface but couldn't get anything to bite. I could blame the moon,or the heat, or lots of shad, or low water, but it's just fishing. The least amount of wake boats I've seen in a long time which makes it nice. One of my friends hit bottom coming in the south Marina on the red Bouy side. Not to much damage to his prop. Just beware the depth at the dock was  still at 3 ft.

[wiperhunter2]

Last two trips have been really slow for me at the bay. Managed a few small cats last night and that was it saw a few shad breaking the surface but couldn't get anything to bite. I could blame the moon,or the heat, or lots of shad, or low water, but it's just fishing. The least amount of wake boats I've seen in a long time which makes it nice. One of my friends hit bottom coming in the south Marina on the red Bouy side. Not to much damage to his prop. Just beware the depth at the dock was  still at 3 ft.

Thanks for the report, too bad the catching was so poor for you, what method of fishing were you using while fishing there? Tell your friend not to come into the channel at the South marina on the red buoy, instead come in on the green buoy, that's the center of the channel. Those buoys need to be repositioned.

[Bubman1]

Yea that's what I told him as well we trolled last Sunday and casted cranks and some top water last night worm and a bobber got the cats last night

[wiperhunter2]

Yea that's what I told him as well we trolled last Sunday and casted cranks and some top water last night worm and a bobber got the cats last night

Right now there is so many baby shad in the water that it makes catching any fish tough, what we found was by moving around to areas where there was less shad and in those areas that had some near the bottom, it was easier to catch other fish. We are headed back out there tomorrow to see what we can find, might even check the progress on the new pipe they are installing in the SW corner.

[obifishkenobi]

Last two trips have been really slow for me at the bay. Managed a few small cats last night and that was it saw a few shad breaking the surface but couldn't get anything to bite. I could blame the moon,or the heat, or lots of shad, or low water, but it's just fishing. The least amount of wake boats I've seen in a long time which makes it nice. One of my friends hit bottom coming in the south Marina on the red Bouy side. Not to much damage to his prop. Just beware the depth at the dock was  still at 3 ft.

I fished Willard last Friday and we spent the first couple hours pulling cranks and bottom bouncers from Pelican beach through freeway bay to the feed lot with no success. Then changed tactics to fishing fligs tipped with chub and fairly quickly put two limits of cats in the boat. I’m done pulling cranks and bottom bouncers until next spring and will stick to fligging while keeping an eye out for wiper boils this fall.

[TubeDude]

Last two trips have been really slow for me at the bay. Managed a few small cats last night and that was it saw a few shad breaking the surface but couldn't get anything to bite. I could blame the moon,or the heat, or lots of shad, or low water, but it's just fishing. The least amount of wake boats I've seen in a long time which makes it nice. One of my friends hit bottom coming in the south Marina on the red Bouy side. Not to much damage to his prop. Just beware the depth at the dock was  still at 3 ft.

I fished Willard last Friday and we spent the first couple hours pulling cranks and bottom bouncers from Pelican beach through freeway bay to the feed lot with no success. Then changed tactics to fishing fligs tipped with chub and fairly quickly put two limits of cats in the boat. I’m done pulling cranks and bottom bouncers until next spring and will stick to fligging while keeping an eye out for wiper boils this fall.

Sounds like a fliggin' good day.  Glad they're still treatin' you good.