01-27-2003, 11:31 PM
[cool]Hey, Tony, it's hard to go wrong with basic white almost any time of the year. I fish mostly plastics...twisters in 3" and 4", and shad in pearl or white about the same size. The one thing I do, if I can't find shad bodies with a blue back, is mark one on them with a permanent marker. That color combo works especially well during the spawn. In the fall, a red line down the back seems to work better.
If you are going to put dots or eyes on your white rigs, make them hot red. That is a deadly color not only in Willard, but elsewhere too.
The white spinners should work very well both during the post spawn and the fall fiesta. I have had some success with small males along the rocks during the true spawn, using slow fluttering small light spoons, in silver with a bit of blue on them. Used some Vibrax silver spinners with blue prism tape strips on the outside of the blades too. The key is to find something with good action at slow speed, that is light enough to stay above the rocks.
One other trick I used to good effect was building a spinning rod from a 9' fly rod blank...I think it was for an 8 weight line. I was able to fish from the rocks and reach out to retrieve the lures at just the right distance from the rocks. Got fewer snags and it was a lot of fun fighting the bigger fish on that rod. It later served as a "bubble chucker" for throwing bubbles and flies clear across Deer Creek and Strawberry.
After the main spawn, think AFTER DARK. Hit the water just at sundown and fish for the next two hours...or get there before daybreak and fish until the sun gets too bright. Of course, whenever the wind is piling waves on shore, fish the muddy water. I used to position my tube about 30 feet out from the shore, near the south marina, and toss 3" yellow twisters with dark red heads during slop and chop conditions. Sometimes the bigger fish would have their noses almost right on the rocks. Got lots of strikes within a couple of seconds of lure splash down.
Rapalas, rattletraps and other hardbaits will all work at times. The Producer Prism Shads have proven effective on walleyes as well as wipers. But, there is one color Rapala I do not think I have ever seen anyone else throw in Utah, and it works well for several species...walleyes included. That is the bright orange model, with a gold stripe and a white belly. Use the size 7 or 5 countdown...in regular or Shad Rap. It works especially well in the low light or discolored water situations. Big browns also find it attractive...both in streams and lakes.
Well, that might not be much, but it's as much as I can dredge out of my feeble rememberies at present. Here's a pic of a couple of average fish, from the "good old days" out of the south marina.
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If you are going to put dots or eyes on your white rigs, make them hot red. That is a deadly color not only in Willard, but elsewhere too.
The white spinners should work very well both during the post spawn and the fall fiesta. I have had some success with small males along the rocks during the true spawn, using slow fluttering small light spoons, in silver with a bit of blue on them. Used some Vibrax silver spinners with blue prism tape strips on the outside of the blades too. The key is to find something with good action at slow speed, that is light enough to stay above the rocks.
One other trick I used to good effect was building a spinning rod from a 9' fly rod blank...I think it was for an 8 weight line. I was able to fish from the rocks and reach out to retrieve the lures at just the right distance from the rocks. Got fewer snags and it was a lot of fun fighting the bigger fish on that rod. It later served as a "bubble chucker" for throwing bubbles and flies clear across Deer Creek and Strawberry.
After the main spawn, think AFTER DARK. Hit the water just at sundown and fish for the next two hours...or get there before daybreak and fish until the sun gets too bright. Of course, whenever the wind is piling waves on shore, fish the muddy water. I used to position my tube about 30 feet out from the shore, near the south marina, and toss 3" yellow twisters with dark red heads during slop and chop conditions. Sometimes the bigger fish would have their noses almost right on the rocks. Got lots of strikes within a couple of seconds of lure splash down.
Rapalas, rattletraps and other hardbaits will all work at times. The Producer Prism Shads have proven effective on walleyes as well as wipers. But, there is one color Rapala I do not think I have ever seen anyone else throw in Utah, and it works well for several species...walleyes included. That is the bright orange model, with a gold stripe and a white belly. Use the size 7 or 5 countdown...in regular or Shad Rap. It works especially well in the low light or discolored water situations. Big browns also find it attractive...both in streams and lakes.
Well, that might not be much, but it's as much as I can dredge out of my feeble rememberies at present. Here's a pic of a couple of average fish, from the "good old days" out of the south marina.
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