Thanks to my good friend Brian Nielson, I had the best day of walleye fishing this season. We fished Potholes last Thursday. The weather couldn’t have been better. It was another clear and calm day, which are going to be more scarce in the coming week. We launched at Mar Don and ran out to where his fish finder is littered with marks from previous trips. We followed what he calls his trapline and the finder was full of good walleye marks most of the way. We had six nice fish in the live well in the first hour, and steadily added to our catch. We were both trolling sparkly green Smile Blades on Slow Death hooks, with two ounce bottom bouncers. He kept our speed at point nine, and we would creep over the rolling dunes, with the depth varying from 15 to 38 feet. The best depths were about 20 to 30 feet. One time a fish crossed our lines, and while Brian was sorting that out I got a bite on the line still out in the water. I felt a bite, jerked, and handlined at nice fish in by hand. We had our limit of 16 fish by 12:30.