All but 4 lakes on Long Island are closed for bass fishing from May 1st-June 6th. None of the open lakes are that close to me, so I've been hitting a Walleye lake to fill in until the opener. I connected with my brother and a pal recently at this spot and had an epic night. Started about midnight and went until 5 am. I doubt I'll ever have a day or night like this again. I hit my 1st 14 on a Mann's Baby 1 minus, then a few on a Megabass Magdraft and Hazedong Shad, then 34 on a Z-Man Bucktail Chatterbait. 54 walleye in total plus one pretty big white perch! 15 of the walleye weighed between 4-5 lbs with a few of those just at 5. The biggest all rolled in between 4 and 5 am just as the wind picked up. Bait was exploding within inches of the shore trying to escape. I just chucked the bucktail in near the shore and they exploded on it. Some casts I just let it drop like a wacky worm and they hit it. I could do no wrong. It was nuts. I needed to bend my hook back several times after the first big one bent it out. The headshakes were violent. My grippers got really gnarled up from the teeth on these bad boys. I'm not sure how the Mad Walleye Lipper does it, but I'm not playing that game!

 

Crazy.

 

Those shallow water walleyes do some serious pulling.