Recent rains brought the River up over five feet recently, tickling ‘action stage’, Like rebuilding the temple in jerusalem–a prodromal sign that the walleye spawn is at hand.

Rising water cooled the surface temp down from 45 to 40 degrees this past week. It was higher, dirtier and one degree colder on April 4 that on April 3.

A great deal of dunnage coming downstream with rising water made pulling 3-ways difficult at best. Switched to pitching purple firecracker Moxie plastics & snap jigging B-Fish-n Tackle B-3 blades, and managed to scratch 4 males and one female in 5 hours.

75% of the males were milting. The 20″ female still had a hard belly–so i’m sticking with the prediction that the ‘eyes will be spawning hot & heavy on April 9.

The USACE 10 day projection calls for stable River levels between now and April 9.

it takes the fish at least a day to adjust to changes like a 5 degree change in water temp or 2+’ change in River level.

Water temp will rise to 45-48 by mid-week . The full moon will rule the night sky on April 12. Stable River levels will help fish focus on the business at hand. Female bellies will soften over the next few days.

The male walleyes? They are like teenage boys–eager to take the fat girl to the prom, drop her off before midnite and head out with the crew for pizza and backroad beers.

With the River stage steady now the big dance will be over rocky-rubble bottom at the slack water/fast water interface away from the faster flow in <12 fow…maybe <4 fow–the places that were dry shoreline two weeks ago.

use considerable caution when motoring under power. A dirty 30 can ruin your day if its a six-inch diameter floating log!