Spent about 4 hours on the Missouri River south of Bismarck, out of Fox Island.

We fished a lot of spots and pitched jigs and ran some cranks.  We caught about a dozen smallies and only one 16″ walleye (although extremely healthy and thick).

What surprised me the most was the amount of gizzard shad we saw along the rocks and sand along shore.  Literally long, big schools that went for 10-15 minutes at a time.  So the food is coming upriver in large numbers, hopefully we’ll see more fish making their way up behind them.