Indiana fishing reports

Wabash River Surging at 15,300 cfs; Lake Michigan Spring Bite Building

The Wabash River recorded 15,300 cfs at USGS gauge 03335500 on May 2 — a reading that puts the mainstem in high, fast, and almost certainly turbid condition following recent runoff across the watershed. That level typically displaces walleye and sauger from their usual riffle haunts and pushes catfish into slack eddies and flooded backwater timber. Wired 2 Fish reported crappie actively staging for pre-spawn across the Midwest this week, a pattern that fits Indiana reservoirs and river oxbows squarely in their best fishing window of the year — brushpile presentations at 3–6 feet should produce through the weekend. On the Lake Michigan side, we're in the heart of the coho and brown trout trolling window along the Indiana shoreline, with surface temps climbing toward the mid-50s. No buoy data was available for Lake Michigan this cycle. The full moon this weekend compresses productive windows to dawn and dusk, when feeding activity peaks.