So much for the conventional wisdom

There was a huge mayfly hatch on Cass Lake last Friday. In my experience, fisherman complain about such hatches because, they say, the fish gorge themselves on mayflies and thus lose their appetite for other offerings.

Well, I spent about an hour at dusk fishing Shallow Water Point in the usual manner and the bite was crazy good. It seemed the hatch turned the fish on.

This image represents the highpoint of the frenzy: two walleyes hit on a single lure on a single cast. Amazingly, neither managed to work his way free.

I've had the two fish/one cast experience once before, with two smallmouth. That was less shocking, though, since smallmouth are such famously aggressive feeders. But two walleyes on a single cast? That's weird.