Come on open water!!! Hurry up!!!

[reddog]

Im kind of different than the average angler. My boat gets stored in early June, and gets brought out of storage in Dec.

Its been a long and cold winter if you like to boat fish during the winter.

[tacklejunkie]

Where do you boat fish in the winter if you don't mind me asking?

[Fish Head]

And why whould you put it away in early June?? You don't want to fish the open water in June-Oct???

[reddog]

Missouri river reservoir

Typically Im too busy to fish in the summer time, plus, thats racing season for me.

[mainbutter]

I've got some gift certificates for fishing stuff that I still need to spend but I've been putting it off because I can't have new lures sitting around and not be able to use them. It's driving me crazy!!!

Open water please come soon!

[mozy]

Here's a HSOforum of average ice-out dates on quite a few popular lakes in MN. Looks like we'll be on open water in about a month and a half or less.

http://climate.umn.edu/doc/ice_out/ice_out_historical.htm

[OnAFly]

That's if we have an average winter...which we have not.

So far it seems we are shaping up to have a long winter. I'm ok with this as the late spring makes the fishing better for my Rainy trip in late May

[tacklejunkie]

Here's a HSOforum of average ice-out dates on quite a few popular lakes in MN. Looks like we'll be on open water in about a month and a half or less.

http://climate.umn.edu/doc/ice_out/ice_out_historical.htm

A month and a half is too long!!

To quote Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka, "I want it nowwww!!!"

[fish2morrow]

Just when it seems the ice are starting to melt snow starts falling. OMG the agony of waiting for open water fishing is seriously hitting my hard.

[Dylan33]

Sorry if this is a dumb question...So if we have a long winter, late ice out, and we couple that with a cold and wet spring. Is that going to make bass and musky fishing in early June better or worse?

I'm assuming that it will push the spawn later into spring, and fish will be active in the shallows later in the spring and early summer, but are they actively feeding at the same time as the spawn?

thanks

[EBass]

Good Q - I think they (bass) will be in all phases of the spawn depending on the lake of course. Dunno - we'll see what happens.

[J2M]

Had a blast reorganizing my new tackle box, spooling new line and cleaning all my old reels and purchasing the Spirex combo that was on sale at Cabela's today. Plus my wife fell in love with one of the new Alumacrafts that we looked at today and gave me the go ahead to buy it next spring.

[Stick in Mud]

That's a good day, J2M!!

[Stick in Mud]

About the late spring: I much prefer a late spring to an early spring for both bass and walleye. Not sure if it's only on the lakes I fish, but for bass, I always do best right after opener...only for it to get "regular" as the water warms and the fish move out a bit deeper. Oh if only I could fish in early May!

[pushbutton]

well mike, we will have to get together and fish, since i only can only find fish if we have an early spring. then no matter if it is early or late, at least one of us will know where the fish are

[GlassEyeangler]

putting the boat in at 3:00am...trolling in 4' of water with a spinner and leech...cracking open the first beer...having to grab the net while almost falling over do to too much gear in the boat...watching the sun come up...having six wallys in the live well...taking a nap the rest of the day - yeah, me too - COME ON SPRING!!!

[Brad B]

I got it really bad. I just bought a new 2011 alumacraft and having it sitting there just makes me want to use it. come on spring and open water. it can't come fast enough.

[popriveter]

I spent about an hour casting hopelessly in the mississippi today. I would've bet anything that I wasn't going to catch anything (and I would've been right) but I had to cast and retrieve. Thank you Hodgman for your fine neoprene products.

[tacklejunkie]

They said it was suppose to be in the 40's today but it sure doesn't feel that way

[Gordie]

hopefully getting my new used outboard on the boat this weekend and testing it out at Redwing next sunday and I may have an open seat

[mrklean]

warm weather next week the white stuff is going away each day

[blakjack23]

warm weather next week the white stuff is going away each day

4 more weeks, but it feels like an eternity

[Gordie]

4 more weeks, but it feels like an eternity

there is a lot of open water to hit before 4 weeks gets here boat loads of it pun intended

[mrklean]

the river is calling my name everyday

[Gordie]

mine too mrklean mine too