Shore fishermen are catching nice sized fish using yellow or red baits, such as power bait, salmon eggs, or worms suspended about five feet under a small bobber. Boaters should try trolling small lures such as rooster tails or Panther Martins or small Peacock lady flies. Access roads may open within a week. Shore fishermen should use a bobber and suspend bait three feet above bottom, or try a worm with a marshmallow to float it up from the bottom. For walleye, fish during low light hours, early or late in the day, using sinking Rapala lures near rocky shorelines or ledges.
Reservoirs are full and ice is gone.
Trout fishing is fair to good at Bunch Reservoir using worms and marshmallows from shore, Fishing is fair at Tunnel, try scented baits, worms, and solmon eggs. River reservoir is fair to good. Boaters should try trolling Z-rays, Tapalas, or other lures that imitate crawfish. Access roads may open within a week. Trout fishing is fair.