From 2012 to 2015 I worked for the NPS and each spring I stayed at the government housing just east of the Ash River Visitor center. It was the best three years of my life.
Every night (weather permitting) I would take my personal boat out to fish. It was just a 14′ so I didn’t have a lot of range. What I found was that one of the best places to fish on the east side of Kab was 50′ in front of the ash VC landing. Every night guys would be loading their boats and heading off miles across the lake while some of the best fishing was at the landing. 
Granted – I’m sure it just doesn’t feel right to drive all the way out to the ash river landing, launch your boat, and then go 50′ to fish when you have 50 miles of reservoir. Don’t overcomplicate it.
That time of year fish might still be post-spawn shallow all day. If not they will be shallow in the morning and evening. I like fishing shallow so I would get up at 4 on the weekends (in June its already light out) and have my limit by 6am and never fish deeper than 6′. If you are fishing mid-day go deeper. May-time fish are aggressive and didn’t seem to matter. I fished alot with huskies or other cranks. By June I would switch to blades with a crawler.
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