My, My...A Walleye Willard 6-8-22 (with video)

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Congrats on corralling that eye Pat, a few kitties are also a good add to the days tugs. Did your eye have anything in it’s stomach, the ones we got were pretty much empty with nothing that could be identified

Thanks.  Nope...nuttin' in the digestive tract.  But, as others have commented the fish was healthy and appeared to have been eating well over the winter...or at least during the dying shad glut of late fall. 

I have read with interest the comments about seeing early wiper boils...and some walleyes containing 3-4" shad in their innards.  They would not yet be that large from this year's spawn...even if spawned very early.  But I have witnessed a couple of terns swooping down to pick up something from the surface that appeared to be in that size range.  Wondering if those fish might instead be "spottail shiners".  There is apparently a growing population of them.  I got quite a few in my cast net when doing some sample tosses in both the north and south marinas last year.