Willard Sat/Sun 13/14

[finhunter]

Sat: 6:30-Noon

Started off working rapps and bottom bouncer around island. Caught one little catfish. Other boats working the island soon left. Fished the light pole area, middle areas, pig farm, and south west corner. Caught a stinking 15 lb carp in sw on #7 shad rapp (took it in the mouth). Those trash fish never seem to amaze me. Did best at the pig farm. Ended up with 6 cats for the day. 0 wipers, 0 walleye.

Sun: 7-11 Am

Went straight to the pig farm and started trolling toward south east corner. Caught a catfish on a jointed walleye immitation. I then realized I'd screwed up on the fuel situation. I though I had one full tank but it turned out to have just enough to get me back to the marina. I switched tactics and used the electric motor with a bottom bouncer. Ended up catching two more really nice sized cats. Fished for a couple minutes by the "no boats allowed" bouy in the channel and caught a crappie on a jig.

Both days tried varying depths, lures, colors and speeds (2-4 mph). I feel like of got the catfish pegged pretty good. Wish I could figure out the walleye.
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[wiperhunter2]

Thanks for posting your report Finhunter, you sure have put your time in at Willard this summer. How big were these nice size cats you caught? WH2
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[fishwriter]

Your weekend didn't go much better than mine. We hit the bay Friday night and at sundown my daughter once again outfished me and we caught 4 nice walleye and 4 wipers on yo-zuri minnows and rattlin rapalas, trolling fairly slow. I did catch one of the walleye and one wiper. All the fish came from directly west of the north marina about 300 yds. I couldn't get a bite anywhere else in the lake.

Then Sunday we tried all over once again trolling every lure in the box at all speeds and directions. We trolled out from the N marina then accross the middle to the light pole, south from there along the west dike then over to the island, the feedlot and finally Mantua where we caught a bunch of nice little bluegills. It's the first time I have smelled a skunk on Willard this year! PEEEEYEWW

I didn't see a boil at all on Friday or Sunday, just lots of murky water and those #$%!& nats, where the hek did they come from and where did the wipers and walleye go?
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[finhunter]

WH2:
I think the cats were about 3 pounders. I had saturday's catfish fillets in the fridge so the Sunday cats got to go back in the lake to get even bigger.

fishwriter:
Nice fish photos! Sorry about the Sunday skunk. I may need to starting hitting Mantua again. Those blues are fun to catch.
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