Two standard questions for this time of year...

[Scoot]

1) Where you be on the muskie opener?

2) What will you throw first?

I'll give my usual answer: I'll likely be working or doing fatherly duties on the opener. When I get out sometime in the week after opener, I'll probably start out with a glide bait- maybe my new phantom. His name is Raul and he will catch me a fish or two...

[cbrooks]

I will be fishing in the Bemidji area not sure what lake exactly. I'll probably start with a small bucktail, crankbait or regular dawg. Its just a month and a half away, can't wait.

HSO should put the countdown to opener on the top page.

[bemidjibasser]

I will be in the Bemidji area as well, and I will be throwing a jig and twin tail trailer or chunk stylr trailer.

[bronzeback]

1.) Somewhere Good.

2.) flipping an 11" Jimmy- Redhorse/Sucker pattern.

[ole matty]

Somewhere between Iowa and Canada

phantoms or Super appealer.

[nater]

1. Alexandria area

2. The first couple hours will be dedicated to my new chopper.

[Nick Kuhn]

I'll be somewhere in Northwest Wisconsin May 29th. Probably someplace sheltered to keep away from the Memorial Day weekend zoo. Nothing worse than waiting at a launch behind the dozen guys who launch their pontoon once a year...

[JRedig]

Dunno what lake yet, but out at midnight throwing dbl 20's and 2lb'ers....seriously.

[Musky Buck]

Depending on water temps, any stocked muskie lake and screaming a bucktail if the water is close to 70. If the screaming gives me no takers or laziness I'll cut the speed down in half, if that isn't the answer it'll be topwater time no matter what time of the day or weather.

[brad coin]

I will be in the metro and throwing a "phat boy" walk the dog topwater there are ALOT of newly hatched baby ducklings on the metro lakes in June and a little

phat boy bouncing back and forth looks just like a little vulnerable duckling seperated from mama

[thrax]

1. Undecided Bemidji area lake? Won't decide till probably the night before.

2. Shallow with a Husky Black Hawg Wobbler

[MuskieJunkie]

... out at midnight throwing dbl 20's and 2lb'ers....seriously.

(ding) "RUBE CRED"

A - Going out at midnight - rube cred

B - throwing a double 20 - rube cred

C - throwing a 2 pounder - triple rube cred

Don't forget the advil

[Shoot2Kill]

At a wedding! Stupid people. I can go all year long and not be invited to a wedding and then just like that we get an invite for one and it is ALWAYS on some kind of opener.....duh...duck, deer, now this year muskie....just goes to show you that you can't be friends with people that are not die hard outdoor freaks.....outdoor freaks know the rules.

So...because I'll be at a wedding that day I too may join JRedigs thoughts and go out at midnight and throw one of the 3 dozen new baits I've accumulated since ice up.

[muskieboy46]

1) Undecided Metro Lake

2) Depending upon lake, either DCG, mepps, flasher, or bulldawg. Probably a mixture of all of them.

Oh and then my brothers graduation party...

[Esox_Magnum]

My wedding anniversary is May 21, IGL's muskie opener is May 21........guess where I'll be.... West Okoboji tossing baits...

[muskymaniac4ever]

you will be in the dawghouse u sayin

[Esox_Magnum]

She understands my addiction, all is good. Only cost me Memorial weekend to take her to a Twins game. I will say though at the time of the wedding I didn't have this addiction.

[mtreno]

double 20's ehh.....

will be on the pond - most likly in the slop tossin a phantom or a old eagletail

may sneak down to the metro for a midnight run depending on how busy my saturday looks.

[john skarie]

Won't be out for skies on opener.

Taking the daughter to WI to hang out with 2 friends and their little girls. Will be catching sunnies and swimming.

Skies can wait. Opener is a friggin zoo anyway.

JS

[MuskieJunkie]

At a wedding! Stupid people.

Somebody told me once "there's nothing like a wedding to ruin a nice summer weekend". For the record I got married in October.

I'll be on Leech for our annual guys walleye trip, one other guy on that trip fishes 'skies, we'll probalby break off from the group one day. I'll be throwing a Rad Dog spinner bait at rock points and in cabbage beds.

[goblueM]

i'll be in the metro somewhere, and i'll probably throw every new lure i bought this winter

[Cooter]

Is somebody making a double 20 now other than homemades?

I might fish the opener here - would be on a small river to avoid the circus. Will be throwing a med sized homemade bucktail.

[rugbymn]

At a wedding! Stupid people. I can go all year long and not be invited to a wedding and then just like that we get an invite for one and it is ALWAYS on some kind of opener.....duh...duck, deer, now this year muskie....just goes to show you that you can't be friends with people that are not die hard outdoor freaks.....outdoor freaks know the rules.

So...because I'll be at a wedding that day I too may join JRedigs thoughts and go out at midnight and throw one of the 3 dozen new baits I've accumulated since ice up.

I'll be at my bachelor party. The good news is that it's being held on a secluded lake in the Walker area with only 4 or 5 cabins and lots of walleyes. The bad news is that it's not a muskie lake and after the first beer is cracked, no one is allowed to leave. That doesn't mean I can't or won't be tossing bucktails for northerns with the new Calcutta 400TE my fiancee bought me for an engagement gift, though!

[tgruenke]

Rugbymn,

Not a bad gift!

[Fish Head]

I'll be on a plane to Alaska on the opener. 1st time to Alaska. King Salmon on the Kenai River, than Halibut and Rockfish in the ocean out of Homer. I might even do a one day fly-in for Sockeye if they're running while I'm there.

When I get back, I'll be throwing glide baits and buck tails.

Can't wait.