Even so, Kendall Kamke, senior fisheries biologist with the Department of Natural Resources at Oshkosh, agreed to go way out on a limb and give it his best shot. Guys could start fishing this weekend.
People always catch fish during the upstream walleye migrations, before the fish spawn.
On the Wolf River at Eureka, fishing was good for about a 10-day period. Those fish are still up in both rivers. The fish are done spawning and their attention turns to eating. Unlike bass or northerns, which strike out of aggression, Kamke explained, walleyes only feed when they are hungry. Kamke believes that the spawning peak, on both the Fox and Wolf rivers, may have taken place sometime last week.