Not much chat on here about walleye weekend. Two of us decided to beat up on those Spirit Lake eyes Saturday from 6:30am till 11:30pm. Boated roughly 70-80 short fish and a dozen or so legal fish. Kept three for dinner. Biggest fish was 20″. Caught 90% of our fish sock-drifting and probing with Gulp!, minnow grubs and 3/8 ounce heads (didn’t mess with the minnows, as the fish were on fire, and the minnows seemed to hide down in that moss and new weedgrowth to much. Couldn’t get a decent crank bite, spinners did well when the fish were, “up” a bit. Biggest daytime fish for us were in 8 to 10 feet, cigars were in 13 to 18 feet for us. Caught 2 nice smallies off buffalo run in 8 feet, and a pike at the north end in 17 feet, got bit off in the same spot one other time. The night bite at the old footbridge narrows area? at the north end was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. I think those strong southerly winds really stacked water up back in that pond, after the hail came through, the wind calmed down and some good warm current came rushing back out into Spirit. We casted stickbaits in 2 to 8 feet and had fish on almost every cast. The wind picked up and we began trolling, for fear of washing onto the rocks, suckers would hit it right behind the prop on the big motor, probably caught 20 walleyes in about 30 minutes untill we headed out for less crowded areas. High Winds, rocks, shorecastes, other boats, and hundreds of walleyes -Talk about a Chinese fire-drill (fish on! take the wheel, sh$$ I’ve got one! he feels pretty good, watch the rocks! Don’t run over that guys lines! watch out for that shorecaster’s zone, another one! Oop! me too! 
Have a great season up there…
Kolby Kester
iawalleye.com
Gotta love it when those eyes are on suicide runs like that though!