WB Fish Cleaning Stations??

[Paddler]

We were up last Friday and the fish cleaning station at the North Marina was closed.  The office up there doesn't answer the phone.  Is the South Marina station open?  Anybody know when the North will open?  Thanks in advance.

South marina cleaning station is closed as well. It depends on the year but they normally don't get them up a running until May, some years as late as Memorial day weekend. How was the catching the day you were there?

Kinda slow.  I got nothing but two small wipers on SR7s.  Nothing on anything else though I tried SR5s, Hot N Tots, Wally Divers, Thunderstick Jrs, etc.  My buddy got three walleye, all on Flicker Minnow 7s in black/silver 100' off the boards, one good, one decent and one small, so three different age classes.  He was using 8# XT instead of 10#, so running a bit deeper than 13'. He also caught a few small wipers.

I didn't deploy my drift socks, so we trolled at ~2.7MPH at 660RPM.  I can get down to 1.4MPH with the socks but I was feeling lazy.  Water temp was ~57F to start, hit 63F by the time we left at 3:00.  Water clarity was very good to excellent.

Shad Raps have always produced well for me, so well I hadn't bought any Flicker Minnows.  But I went to Scheel's the next day and stocked up. .