04-10-2004, 11:35 PM
I was just recently referred to this site, and have enjoyed the information that I've seen on it during the last two weeks. One of my sons and I went to Willard for a couple of hours on Wednesday, just before the storm. Picked up three wipers, one trolling and then two more in the immediate area on jigs. The first one took a lipless rattlin rapala (blue back), and the other two took white and chartreuse curly tails. One weighed 4.9#s, one was 4.2#s, and we didn't weigh the third one, it was down in the three pound range. All of the fish were much heavier for length than last year, and looked good. Wind, rain, and hail came in, and cut the afternoon short. We were 150 feet off shore near the southwest corner. Launching from the north marina posed no problems, other than no docks. Most of the channel is now nine feet deep except about 50 feet just out from the outer dike where it didn't get dredged. For a short distance there it is still four to five feet deep. I attached a picture of my son and his first ones of the year. Thanks again for sharing all of your good information.
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