Opener may have been slow for some, but the bite right now is extremely HOT! Everything has started to feed and with a little bit of luck you might still get your mixed bag in the same spot using the same thing. Having the one two punch rigged up a head of time of having a trolling rod and a jigging rod set up can cover most of your bases.
Walleye bite is picking up and on some local lakes are extremely hot right now and if you get on an active pod of fish, you will have no problem getting enough for a fish fry in a short period of time. Just stay mobile and willing to change up presentations. For example, Sunday the bite was jig and a minnow in 9-11 feet but on Monday it was strictly a lindy with a shiner bite in 13-15 feet of water with a lot of marks in 17-25 feet of water but weren’t actively feeding when we found them. I’m starting to see them transition from early season spots to their normal end of May/June spots and a few mid-season spots are already having a few fish starting to appear.
Crappie bite is still active and can be found from the shallows to the edges of the weed line. With the colder weather the weed growth has not been as fast as I would have thought this is causing most crappies staying very tight to new and old weed growth. We found some very active fish on the deep side of the weed line but once we caught a few they took off into shallower water for protection. Start on the deeper side and slowly work your way up into shallower water. We pitched tungsten jigs and plastics with best luck.
Perch is something we don’t often talk about but on a few local lakes the perch are actively feeding, and a few are producing some very nice sized fish. Friends got on a pod of perch and caught 60 between 10 and 12 inches long! Reports I’m hearing are they are aggressive and hitting everything from fatheads to shiners to leeches. People are using their electronics to find them and using spot lock to stay on top of them till they move a few feet away. Joys of perch, they rarely move far away so staying on top of them is usually easy.