Opener a week later

[fishnhuntnboy]

Just found out that walleye opener is a week later this year. Boy this really messed up my plans this year to fish the walleye and early bass opener. Now i dont have an excuse to forget mothers day and better be on top of it this year lol.

[OnAFly]

It worked out really, really well for me. For a week I thought I was going to be in California on business over the opener and got ready to cancel my plans. My day got a lot better today when I checked the dates on the DNR HSOforum and realized it was a week later so I still get to get out.

[buddha]

If this early spring holds up fishing could be really good or the southern part of the state could be on the tail end of good fishing if the weather holds.

[mrfish1991]

I thought this might be an april fools thread, but then I looked it up myself, o well, it will give me more time to put things away from college and get my fishing stuff ready.

[chaffmj]

I think you mean Mother's day is a week early. The fishing opener has always been around the 15th of May.

[matthothand]

You guys know that the season dates are listed in the regulation booklets like a year in advance right? I'm not trying to be funny or rude. Maybe that will help someone plan better for next year's walleye, sauger, pike, largemouth and smallmouth bass-north of 53, inland lake trout, and stream trout in lakes opener.

[fishnhuntnboy]

It dont matter if i even looked and planed this a year ago. I graduate this spring from college and I have to move out the weekend of opener and start work that following monday possibly. Oh well..you cant always fish every opener. Just means i will have to slaughter the fish another day!

[Hoffer]

Wow-

I thought it was an unwritten rule that it was ALWAYS the 2nd saturday in May...guess not!

[Dr Thunder]

The opener is always 2 weeks before Memorial Day.

[PerchJerker]

The opener is always 2 weeks before Memorial Day.

Correct!

[Maverick]

Not knowing what day the walleye opener is, is like forgetting your wife's birthday or aniversary. Totally, unforgiveable.

The fact is that a few years ago they passed a law that always leaves a weekend between opening weekend and Memorial Day weekend. They say it was done to enhance tourism and help out the resorts, but I think they did it to tick off mothers 5 out of 7 years. The opener and Mother's Day will not be on the same weekend when ever Memorial Day (Monday) is the 31st or the 30th.

[fivebucks]

Don't bring up forgetting your wife's birthday. I did that once and will never hear the end of it. In my defense her b-day was 2 days after 9-11 happened and I just plain forgot. Still unforgiveable.

[Pleasant]

I can not win. Mothers Day is many times on opening weekend and wife's birthday is on bass opener weekend this year.

[Maverick]

I can not win. Mothers Day is many times on opening weekend and wife's birthday is on bass opener weekend this year.

Only one solution to that. Buy your wife a new Bass Boat.

[jigginjim]

Make sure you also remmeber to get things before Birthdays, Mothers day and Annivers. I was going to buy gifts for wife in the afternoon, got an ear beating for not doing it early. I still got it as planned but next year it will be early.

[My_Key]

My Mother's Day gift for my mom is getting my dad out of the house on Saturday for the opener. I'm going to actually have to come up with a gift.