Lake Maxinkuckee - Indiana

Fished from 11:30-4:00 and ended up with 11 between my partner & I.

Our first few spots were dead. This included a flat w/ rocks and a few humps. We hit depths between 6-24' It wasn't until we hit a flat between 8-12 FOW we began catching them on silver buddy & grubs. Those 11 fish included 2 walleye; 18" & 22" I was almost as excited about those than the bass. 3 fish were short largemouth, while the rest were smallies. 4 of the smallie were between 14-16" What impressed/surprised me most about the fish we caught were their bulging stomachs. They were definitely eating. Many of the fish had the baits deep in their mouth, but others were barely hooked. I examined the throats of the fish we caught and saw nothing, but the walleye that were cleaned later revealed a few small (2-3") perch in the stomachs

There was a stout wind coming out of the southeast and the water temp. was 38 early but ended up between 40.0-40.5 degrees. We were in an area that had warmer water and the fish were definitely relating to the sporadic weed beds. In fact, when were got hung up in weeds, we expected a bite. I felt if we would have stayed out we would have continued to have gotten biten.

It was nice to catch more than a single fish in an outing and I feel with the weather coming, its only going to get better! The season has officially begun!