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Back in the 1970s and 80s DWR tried introducing a variety of potential forage species in Willard...and in a few other spots.  Some survived.  Most did not.  Some, like the spottail shiner, established small reproducing populations but were never plentiful enough to support a major predator base...like wipers.  So the gizzard shad were introduced and the rest is history.  But there are still small numbers of the spottails...and some log perch.


Here's a pic of some spottails I caught and tried for bait on Willard.  (They are legal)  Got one hit on them...no fish.  But went back to my left handed blue eyed chubs and got lots of action on the same day in the same area.  Haven't used them since.