Not sure what’s going on with these fish? Seems sometimes they bite and sometimes they don’t! Was there Sat. and did’nt see many fish caught. We caught 1 sheepie and a Smallie for our 2 1/2 hours on The river. Was out this morning and caught 1 legal eye on the lower end pulling a fathead on a Lindy. If we used Crawlers, we caught Smallies. Put 4 or 5 of those in the boat also.
Chappy, I was up there this morning also (5/11). Only stayed about an hour and a half. Slow,Slow, where did they go. Caught 1 small eye, about 10 sheephead. Dragging crawlers on Lindy rigs. I’m not sure whats going on, but I’m kinda struggling to find the elusive eyes. Worked in the past 20 years or so, but kinda slow for me so far. 
Headed down river to the Wing dams between Prescott and Diamond Bluff. Hit a few of my favorites, but still came up a little short. 1, 18″ eye more sheephead. I believe I caught more sheephead today on the wing dams than ever before. I still think we need some warmer weather to get them to turn on. Any ideas? Like I said, this method has worked well in the past. Patience, Patience I quess.
I’m quite new to walleye and river fishing. We fished the Hudson area, up to the big power plant (I assume). We got one largemouth and it was raining the whole time. I saw tons of fish on the sonar, many out in the channel in schools. Saw some schools of something (white bass) feeding on top of the water just north of I-94 a bit. There were a bunch of fish under the railroad bridge. We were trolling various cranks, but didn’t get anything besides the bass. Pardon my ignorance, but what speed should I be trolling at? Should we have gotten the cranks down deeper than, say, 12 feet? Any tips for the area would be nice.
From what I’ve been hearing trolling is the thing to do right now.As for speed I’ve heard anywhere from 2.5 down to really slow. Fast for the aggressive fish. I’ve talked to a few people that have been catching in 12-16 feet of water. I personnally hav’nt done it,but soon! I’m just out trying to break in the new motor.I think Engleworm is correct,water’s gotta warm up some. Although I was reading 53 degrees there Monday .Now engleworm, 
Get back to work!!!Oh yeah, Supervisors don’t work! 
As the water warms and even now…don’t be afraid to troll at 3 mph and down to 25 – 30 feet. Keeping the crank on the bottom has worked best in most cases for me…but there are the times when I’m in 25 feet of water the crank has to be at 15 feet.
Good Luck!
Can I get a few ideas on how to get the cranks deeper than 15 feet? I had a 3-way swivel yesterday with a 2 oz. sinker hanging off one piece of the swivel. It got super tangled with my other rod. I’m also thinking of putting a slip sinker on, kinda like a Carolina rig, vs. a Texas rig style…but I’m thinking a TX rig wouldn’t be bad as well. I could downrig, but I don’t want to buy one. Any other ideas? 
I ‘spose there’s many ways of keeping them down. I use differant sizes of floating or at time suspending raps, with about 6 feet of leader. the a bottom bouncer…(the cheap ones, that look like an upside down “L”) Most of the time I use a 3 oz weight, but with less currant switch to 2 or 2 1/2 oz. If I’m searching I’ll use two rods with the rod in the holder set a little higher than the bottom. The rod in my hand is always dragging. I seldom have a tangling issue as I do with bell and the 3 way swivals. Give it a go… 
Are you trolling? Duh, your trolling! Try leadline or Try snap weights up the line a way’s from your raps.
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