Walleye Spawning Question

Question
Hi,
 I live in upstate NY and was fishing the Mohawk river today(June 28th) for nothing in particular when I caught a real nice size Walleye with a nightcrawler. The odd thing(at least it seemed so to me)was that she was full of eggs. Isn't the last week in June awful late for spawning?
Thank You

Answer
Greetings,

I am no Walleye specialist or biologist, but you are right it is awfully late.

I know our spring in Wisconsin was very late with strange weather patterns. It could be the weather. I've observed that all fish don't spawn at the same time too. Could be this Walleye didn't get the right trigger to spawn and wasn't going to this year. I've heard of fish that just absorb their eggs sometimes.

Thanks for the question,