{"id":238,"date":"2016-03-27T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/?p=238"},"modified":"2016-03-27T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T22:21:40","slug":"early-spring-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Early spring fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wp-1459117217670.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1459117217670\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wp-1459117217670.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have had an exceptional early thaw this year. The river opened one week ago and today I am fishing open water at lunds landing and Lewis and Clark. It would seem the walleye are prespawning on the river and people have been doing really well at the pumphouse.&nbsp; Today I fished for pike on sakakawea.&nbsp; Lunds had really low water, I couldn&#8217;t find a spot deeper than 5 ft. Managed a small pike slow rolling a minnow but was otherwise dead. It may be to shallow to early.&nbsp; Lewis and Clark however was a different matter. There is still ice on the boat ramp where barley 3 weeks before I caught a 40 in fish through the ice.&nbsp; On the inlet though the water was open and the pike were trolling. I got an ok pike and the guy across from me got a beauty of a fish.&nbsp; Oddly I also caught a large catfish in deep water on a minnow. Weather has been in the 40s and wind was light with mostly sunny skies giving way to clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had an exceptional early thaw this year. The river opened one week ago and today I am fishing open water at lunds landing and Lewis and Clark. It would seem the walleye are prespawning on the river and people have been doing really well at the pumphouse.&nbsp; Today I fished for pike on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,7,11,19],"tags":[6,4,16],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-spring","category-lewis-and-clark-state-park","category-pump-house","category-sakakawea","tag-catfish","tag-pike","tag-walleye"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}