What does the walleye spawn itself look like — and can I fish it?

It is a night-time broadcast event, nothing like a bass bed: at 6–10 °C (43–50 °F), females escorted by several smaller males release eggs over clean gravel, cobble, and rock rubble in moving or wave-washed water — river rapids, dam tailraces, windswept reefs — usually shallower than 1–3 m (3.3–10 ft), and then leave. No nest, no pairing, no guarding. Whether you can fish it is mostly a legal question: across much of Canada and the northern US the season is simply closed until the spawn is over, and where it is open, spawning females bite poorly anyway while post-spawn males provide the action. The biology answer is: there is no bed to sight-fish and little reason to try; the calendar answer is: read the regulations for your zone, every year.

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