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Willard is ice free
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One additional problem with the latter year's wiper plants was genetics. The fish in the 90's were obviously the result of a hybrid utilizing a female striper and male white bass. This results in bigger fry and better survival rate, further, the wipers ended up having much much better girth from my empirical observations. Many of the latter wipers seemed to be male striper, and female white bass. Even the coloring was quite distinct, hybrids that were the result of female white bass had less broken lateral stripes whereas the results of female striper parent had numerous broken lateral stripes. I've seen many of the recent ones with few broken stripes, they get big to 22 inches easy but only about 4 and half lbs with a few exceptional fish here and there. The former strain was 4 lbs at 18 to 19 inches. But aside from size, so few are planted I no longer bother to fish willard much from shore. UL is much better for eyes so I stay over there lol.
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Willard is ice free - by wiperhunter2 - 03-01-2014, 07:53 PM
Re: [fishjon] Willard is ice free - by hogstalker - 03-02-2014, 06:32 AM
Re: [TubeDude] Willard is ice free - by Fishrmn - 03-02-2014, 07:45 PM
Re: [Fishrmn] Willard is ice free - by TubeDude - 03-02-2014, 08:23 PM
Re: [TubeDude] Willard is ice free - by Fin-S-Fish - 03-07-2014, 12:50 AM
Re: [fishjon] Willard is ice free - by zman2 - 03-03-2014, 01:35 AM
Re: [reelfast] Willard is ice free - by HYDROFISH - 03-02-2014, 04:02 PM

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