[icebadger]

I went out on the cong last night to see if the waldos wanted to play nice. got on the water at 8:00pm and started to fish one of the three places that i wanted to fish. the bait was not active last night in any of the spots i fished so topwater was out of the plan. I went to the stickbait and the flicker shad and fished rock piles and weed lines. the weed growth is getting heavy already some places were weeded up so i fished a bit further from shore than i normally do. the first fish was caught at 10:45pm and it was a short at 17" the next fish was also a short at 14" but the third fish i caught at 11:30pm was the big one it crushed the flicker shad and had the lure down by the gill plates and was bleeding so bad that it died later so sadly i could not keep it alive to put it back to fight another day. the walleye was 26" and 8lb11oz a new pb for me beating the walleye i jigged up thru the ice at Swartswood lake that fish was 8lb1oz, i got it back in 2001. the wind has been a bit of a problem for me this year and the colder temps are throwing things off a bit as well. i don't know how long the fish are going to be active at night hopefully till the middle of June. i have been out 6 times at night and the herring are not as active as they were in the past years. the crappie bite died off fast as well by the second week of may the numbers and size were down by quite a bit. i heard of people getting fish at night in the first week of April that is early compared to years past. some photos of the fish as well included.