night shift on the cong

Place we met it's either matted up with weeds with herring and fish popping or no weeds and devoid of herring and predators. Surface weeds this time of year versus last are a lot higher so conditions have become tough but still battling it out.

Personally in my limited time chasing walleye I think it's as you said a combination of factors starting with a mild winter compounded by an April that felt more like February. It impacted the perch spawn, the crappie spawn and even the bass spawn. Haven't even been up there this year but have read reports the shad run on the Big D hasn't been the best either. Snow and frost alerts in April don't bode well for spring fisheries especially when temperatures in March were more like May's weather. Fish are still there and have to feed so just need to figure it out.

Good luck and keep a close eye out for Eddie!

[Mikey topaz]

Nice night out badger, 👍🎣👍

[NJSquatch]

nice work badger. A 25" rocket ship could tow that canoe around the entire lake twice!

the nighttime wind and floating weeds have been brutal this year! i can't ever remember this much consistent east wind. the lake went from 50 - 70 degrees in 10 days! everything is all messed up and out of sorts. We have had nights with a bunch of surface activity and 2 nights later is was dead. Interesting we tend to do better when there isn't a lot of surface activity. Less bait for them to choose from i guess. be out there this week for sure.

[JDTuna]

Awesome man. Quality fish in tough conditions. 25" is a beast of a hybrid!