Walleye-good bite with jigs and plastics/minnows in 12-18 feet, where we found water that was in the upper 50’s and higher. Some days slowly dragging a minnow on a plain treble under the boat with a 1/2 ounce of weight was the deal.
Smallmouth-slip bobbers and minnows, shallow running crankbaits, and jigs and plastics are all working well. Finding some good sized fish out as far as 20 feet working rocky shorelines.
Pike-Northern bite has backed off a little, especially for bigger fish. Still catching a few on spoons in the shallows, but the better fish may be moving deeper now.
Salmon-Not really a report for them, but an observation that there have been quite a few caught this spring already. From Hell Creek, the Pines, Duck Creek, the dam area, and a little ways down the Dry Arm seem to be a lot of fish in the system this year.
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