Fished Tarentum this morning in the rain, the three of us burned through 1.25lbs of fatheads. Lots of super short walleye, a few keeper's too. Caught 2 big cats, and a few smallmouth.

That's sounds like a good day. 👍 CT

Fished Tarentum again on Saturday with an old army buddy. We caught a few decent walley, lost a pretty big pike at the boat. 

Spent 8 hours on pool 4 Freeport today. What a bust! My son had a good day on Friday with a couple of eyeballs, some smallmouths, and a 35" Musky, but it was like bein' on another planet today when I went with him. Couldn't hardly buy a (decent) hit, even though the two of us burnt through nearly a full half pound of fatheads and a quarter pound of shiners. We each brought back a fathead head on our jigs. We jigged, we rigged, we casted, and we slow trolled some cranks, but other than a dink smallie and a rock bass, all I got was sunburned arms and face and a severe case of boat seat aZZ. I almost considered puttin' on a stinger for the short hits, but blind faith made me avoid it.

I got out a few days in the past week to Arthur.  Pre-cold front, the night bite was on with bait everywhere.  Cold front moved in and seemed to have very limited bait movement at night.  Possibly some action late, late, but I wasn't going to wait up that late to find out.  I found them during the day, which I'd rather do anyway.  I couldn't find the crappie to save my life during the cold front.  Guessing similar with the bait, the front made the shallows colder and moved deeper.  But I wouldn't have thought they'd leave spawning beds even if cold?  Maybe spawned already?  I found some clear cut beds and nothing on them.  Possibly already pulled from them.  I focused much more attention to the harder pulling fish though, so could have just been the time spent trying to find them.  Thurs-Sat, saw maybe 1-2 other boats each day.  Guessing next few (dozen) times out, I will be jockeying for position with the kayaks, SUPs and pleasure boaters.  Maybe I should just focus on the cold fronts?  Just kidding, the pleasure boaters, kayaks and SUPs don't bother me.  Just like the anglers, if they have a shred of boating etiquette/common sense, all is fine.

 Left my top water boxes at camp so made up a couple new ones yesterday. Replaced some line on reels from braid to mono and matched them to rods. Asked my son around midnight if he wanted to head out. He said "not really".  Wasn't sure if they would turn on soon after midnight or the 3:00 -- 5:30 thing with the temps ups and down lately. 
 
  Felt like going when I got up at sunrise this morning but that didn't happen either. Lost my drive for fishing the last 5 years or so.
 
 Gonna see if my son wants to head down for a hr. now.

 "Possibly some action late, late, but I wasn't going to wait up that late to find out."
 
 Pork, good thing you didn't wait around. This morning it was the normal (for this time of May) late, late until dawn feeding frenzy for the part of lake I was at.
 
  After a feeding like that the fish lay on the bottom for hours sayin "I ate tooo much"

Don'tcha just hate bringing minnow heads back in? Light biters are hard to figure. Do they have all of it? How long do ya wait to determine if he's got it or is he gonna feel the weight of the jig and drop it? STUPID FISH!!!

 Hated when the Leather Backs would do that on the Allegheny fishing from shore. Couldn't get away from them at times.

crappiefisher
 "Possibly some action late, late, but I wasn't going to wait up that late to find out."
 
 Pork, good thing you didn't wait around. This morning it was the normal (for this time of May) late, late until dawn feeding frenzy for the part of lake I was at.
 
  After a feeding like that the fish lay on the bottom for hours sayin "I ate tooo much"

After it warmed up from the cold front that pushed through Thurs-Sat, I’m sure they had the feed bag on. Those warm ups after fronts seem to draw every baitfish into the shallows and just about everything following. Seems to be the days that I get the mixed bag of anything from slab crappie, smallmouth, eyes and byrds. Like every fish in the lake pulls up to get in the action.

The nights during those fronts, the shallows are rather vacated. I never stay out into the 3-4AM hours during those, so don’t know if they turn on then. Usually too cold and wet to add to the discomfort of being awake then…. I’m pretty sure they move to more comfortable/stable water depths. I usually put on my longer PJs and sleep through those conditions. They seem to bite just fine during the day then, likely from not staying up all night at the all you can eat buffet.