The walleye hit a small jig tipped with a small piece of nightcrawler under a casting bubble. I stocked 50 of them last November in the 5-7" size range, this one was just a little bit under 8" and it was a little thin, but that likely has more to do not having enough small forage fish going into winter and early spring. The 4-6"smallies I stocked last summer really hammered everything under 4" in size last year, I did overstock SMB numbers last summer to get the GSH numbers under control. Right now I have a lot of 4" to 6" GSH which have been competing with both my smallies and walleye for forage, those same GSH pulled off an epic spawn in the last 2-3 weeks and there are fry everywhere you look now. My 4-6" RES were also looking thin a month ago, now they are all fat little pigs. My smallies and walleye should plump up as this year shiner GSH fry grow larger, some of the GSH fry are already 3/4". I haven't seen a GSH hatch like this for quite a few years.
