Willard Bay September 11th, 2016

Date / Time: Sunday, September 11th, 2016 5-7pm Location: Willard Bay South Marina The Characters: Kory Weather: Partly sunny, 70s Water Temp: Mid 60s guess Water Level: ? Lower Water Clarity/Quality: Greenish Moon Phase: First quarter two days previous Best Flies: Olive chartreuse eye chenille head sculpin Fishing: After weekend at Cliff Lodge Snowbird, dropped the girls off at Kat’s condo where we area currently living while selling our house and headed up to Willard to get some water time. Have been keeping the pram on the truck so was ready to go. Got to north marina and lots of wakeboard, waterski etc. BS so headed to south marina and it was lighter and people were coming in. I launched the pram and saw a boat anchored on the east dike getting a wiper and fished around that point for a bit and then headed west on Dan’s suggestion. I trolled different flies at two different depths all along parallel to the dike for nada. Realized I forgot my clear glasses and decided to slowly head back and grab them while trolling one rod and casting another on speed 1. As I got near the entrance I had a grab and a brief hookup and lost it. After grabbing the glasses I cast along the inlet heading back out and hooked what appeared to be a good sized wiper as it boiled on the surface and lost that one too. I headed back to where I hooked the first one and eventually felt a fish but it never grabbed it hard or did on the pause and I didn’t feel it but I could tell it was there. Eventually it came tight and I saw it was a good size wiper and was stoked! Finally hooked a good one after half a dozen days over the years never getting one myself. It ripped pretty good in typical striper fashion ripping hard on a bulldog run and then stopping eventually relenting. It was a couple pounds or so and a good fish. I debated keeping it but didn’t have cooler or anything. I kept fishing until dark and the bugs got brutal as the sun disappeared, tons of giant midges that were just annoying but also quite a few mosquitoes. Fun evening session.