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[Nick Kuhn]

Opener was an odd one. I had 47 degrees for a water temp when I started Saturday. When I left a different lake Sunday, I had 64 for a water temp.  Fishing was slow for the most part. Picked up a dozen pike over the weekend, a lone walleye, a pair of bass, and a handful of panfish. Everything seemed to be relating to shoreline, nothing on midlake structure or even dropoffs from shelves that are a ways from shore. There was no rhyme or reason to where the fish were located either, they just seemed to be scattered about.

 

Weeds are non-existent for the moment. I expect fishing to be better next weekend, as pike and walleye would have been just spawned out (I caught more pike on the lake that would have seen spawn earlier). Did spot a pair of muskies shallow still spawning Saturday. Bass were suspiciously absent from the shallows for the most part.