Walleye spring to summer transition time so I headed out on the lake from 1 to 4 pm today and worked all the new weed growth as the surface temp was 76 -78 - perfect crankbait temp. The trick was getting the cranks to burn over the tops of the weeds. The fish would come up out of the weeds and crush the cranks.
We went 28 pike, 8 walleye in the short time we where out. All of the walleye where over the 20" mark with a couple coming in at more than 25".
The hot bait for trolling at 2mph was the Bagley Small Fry Shad running far enough behind mini in-line boards to just stay above the weeds. In the image below a 25 cent piece is used to give you an idea of scale.
One of those great days on the water with all the in-line boards going back at the same time and lots of shuffling to net the big fish first. I love it when you have to work your way through all the pike to get to some decent walleye, keeps the day interesting.
-Sheldon
) In the evening they move in very shallow and you have to work the inside pockets of weed-lines which makes trolling very difficult so I switch to pitching jigs with plastics.
Last week went out on Mississippi for a couple of hours mostly after 4pm and within 20 minutes had three in the boat. Went with a customer, one night and at my second spot he got one. We were only out for less than an hour. Classic spots, current breaks while jigging; in fact I jigged one up in front of boat that was trolling. 
Lots of rockies and a couple of crappie. By myself so no photos unfortunately but next time. Good keepers and they tasted great. 
