Do the same reefs and points reload with new walleye?

Reliably — but for the opposite reason a bass spot reloads. A largemouth dock refills because individual bass claim vacant territory; a walleye reef refills because the structure sits on a travel route and keeps intercepting new groups, the way a good rest stop refills with different cars. This is why famous community spots produce for decades despite absorbing enormous pressure, and why the reload is conditional: the spot only works when the conditions that route fish past it — season, light, wind direction, forage — are on. A reef that reloads nightly in June may be empty water in August, not because it was fished out but because the route moved. Rest spots in hours, judge them in seasons.

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