Catfishing WIllard & Bear River

[fishin4life]

Has anyone been catfishing to the Bear or to Willard?[]
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[mikecromaine]

i have fished for cats at willard and have cought some everytime even when i was using lures for wipers. those cats there are very aggressive there.
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[fishin4life]

Where were you at, what time of day, and what depth of water?
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[mikecromaine]

all over on my boat but by the inlet is good on both sides of it as it enters the lake depth well how knows i don't have sonar and i have cought them there in mant defferent ways try worms on the bottom ar anything that comes to mind. never really tried to catch them there has always been on accident fish mostly for the wipers. let me know what works good there for cats maybe i'll spend a day just fishin for them
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[Utcatman]

the cat fishing in willard is almost always good.. and it is usually fast. but the only problem is the size.. dont get me wrong, there are some HUGE cats in there, but most of the cats thot you catch (80%) are under a pound.the bear river also has some huge cats but they can not always be found. i like to fish the bear river bird refuge, there are too many cats in that place, but if you can find them there are monsters lurking in there. someone told me that when wipers, stripers, or any other schooling fish boil the big catfish will lurking under the boil sucking up all of the injured shad or other bait fish.. i was thinking of trying this... just a thought.

JOe
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[wiperhunter2]

You are right about the cats being right below the wiper boils, we always catch a few cats when casting into boils. We have also caught smallmouth and sometime walleye. WH2
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[fishin4life]

I usually fish just up from the bird refuge and have good luck, I was just trying to find a new place.
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