It's pretty much an all day bite. Talked with a guy today that lives near the mouth of the river, who said he saw several boats out there this morning. Personally, I only fish afternoons and evenings. Seems like the bite is better for me after the wind kicks up.

The fish don't seem to mind what kind of hook you use - as long as there's a wiggler on it. Thread them on the hook like a worm. It doesn't matter if they're dead, and you'll lose less of them to the little bait robbers. I was using perch rigs I tied up with both plain hooks and tear drops. The tear drop rigs did produce a little better. For a while you could catch a fish as fast as you could get a line in the water, and my dad finally went to just one rod with a plain hook under a slip bobber. He didn't catch as many that way, but they seemed to be better quality fish. He also caught all but one of the walleyes on that rig.