I noticed last year when fishing Watts (grant it the weather was't the greatest) that the females weren't dropping eggs yet and only a few were coming up above 10ft. I was using minnows and typically only the smaller minnows were getting nabbed. A buddy with me was pretty effective with catching using monkey milk color. Nothing to brag about though and certainly didn't get close to limit. If the winds blowing it's tough to stay on that lake. We were fishing there around late March early April.