5/19: Anybody do any good between SBI & KI?

[West Basin]

A lot of reasons people don't catch fish in "packs" of boats. Maybe the bite was on earlier and it had died off when you got there. Maybe you weren't fishing the right lures or the right depths. Maybe there is a decent but not large number of fish there, so the catching is intermittent. Maybe that area was good yesterday so a lot people went back today. Or... maybe, like a fish story I have, one boat stopped to "fun fish" (at that spot for no real reason) and then another stopped then another... until there was a "pack" fishing an area with few to no walleye. A lot of people still do the "look for the pack of boats" fish finding. If you know how to use your fish finder correctly, it rarely lies. It's a great tool - trust it. Unless the fish are right up near the surface and you aren't marking them. Try that zone for awhile to see if that's where they are. Sometimes they will be deeper then move up. That would explain good fishing for awhile then they "shut off". They didn't leave the area. They moved in the water column.