I was to meet James Lebow and Ryan Harris at Moses Lake at 7 on Thursday morning. Knowing I am always early, they had the boat in the water when I arrived, and we actually landed our first fish at five minutes to 7. So began the best day of walleye fishing we have had this season. The walleye bite was great that morning. We had six rods out and at times we only had one rod in the water. We got four perch that were 12 inches long and one a bit smaller that went into the live well. There were a lot of perch around and we were burning through the crawlers. We got a few catfish, of course, and although the walleye bite would slow occasionally, it would come back on. We tried to keep track on the number of fish we had in the live well, and figured we needed two more fish for our limits—but we were out of worms. We were using pieces of worm and even some fake worms I found in my tackle box, but at eleven o’clock we headed for the dock. Turns out we had 23 walleye, and had released two!