Three years ago the lake came up pretty fast with cooler temps and rising water levels. The lake stabilized the middle of May and we had an area that had been packed with fishermen in April all to ourselves and filled the freezer. We found a staging area with post spawn, prespawn and spawning fish all feeding together and had a blast. We had a pretty good time thurs and sat in the rain, shallow and 6 to 10, take your pick. Friday was pretty tough, probably our choice of where to fish that day because of he wind.