Spring Walleyes - Wolf River

Hit the Wolf River in Freemont three times this spring.  In early April, we were skunked, in end of April we brought home some small walleyes and the two Tim is holding on the left, and on May 2 we brought home 7 walleyes and some white bass.

Each trip was fun (except the skunk).  We are much better while fish are in their post spawn patterns than when they are in prespawn.  Prespawn fish want you to anchor and keep a stationary bait while postspawn fish seem to prefer you to drift.

We had the majority of our success dragging crawlers on 1/8th ounce jigs.  You never know what you are going to catch doing it this way...we ended up with walleyes, sheephead, white bass, catfish, suckers, and in previous years sturgeon.  While we didn't catch any sturgeon this year, we did have a stick on for a couple minutes that when in the current sure felt like one.

Anyway, a couple weeks of good river fishing remain if you thinking of heading out.  In fact, the big white bass are not in the river yet.