Odd Walleye Behavior

Took the night off from studying the other day and headed to the mouth of Trout Run for a little bit of late night walleye action.

I caught two that night. The first was around 1:30 am working a real slow retrieve. At about 3:30 a.m. I threw my lure out and thought that I got it treble hook tangled with my life, so I cranked in as fast as I possibly could. About 30 ft from me, my line got smacked, HARD. Apparently my lure was not tangled after all. I can't figure out why it so hard. Everything I have heard insinuates that slooooooooow action is the ticket. I was fishing quite a way down from the other guy , so I am not sure if the extremely minimal pressure had something to do with it or not. Care to share your thoughts, boys?

On some nights that's the retrieve to use. Been doing it for years,sometimes three quick cranks and pause 5 seconds repeat. ya never know. Hook em and cook em.  

I just always thought they chased slower retrieves. No, Flatfish, unfortunately, I do not. It was a spur of the moment thing with a few classmates. Just grabbed the pole and ran out the door. They were legal, but really nothing awesome.