Northern Zone Opener Report

[BDawg23]

Me and a buddy fished Saturday and Sunday in Hayward and had okay luck considering the conditions. Over the 1 1/2 days we fished we caught 15 smallies with a 21" fat pig and a 19 1/2" as the biggest. Water temps ranged from 42-47 and fish were caught mainly on plastics with a couple coming on Sunday on jerk baits. Once I figure out how to post pictures I will get them up there. The bummer of the weekend was somewhere between the lakes we fished in MN (Coon and Green) and LCO in Hayward on Friday my buddies pickup bed was broken into and 6 baitcasters were stolen It was a total bummer and not a good way to start the year. So all in all we did pretty good for only having a couple of spinning rods leftover. How did everyone else do???

[bassfshin24]

Jeeze some people really pi$$ me off! All the hard work put in so you can buy tackle and then all the sudden some punks decide to do something like that. Would love to meet these kind of people face to face But way to get into some smallies though, 21" is an awesome smallie.

[Stick in Mud]

Thanks for creating some excessive jealousy, Bdawg!

[smalliehunter]

fished saturday on the bay out of ashland wi. no luck then fished the pike chain mostly on hart lake and only caught 5 only 1 of which was a smallmouth. first time fishing in wisconsin on the early opener and we got our butts kicked for the entire weekend. fished 68sm and for almost 20 hrs in 2 days for 5 fish.

[Presco]

Thanks for the report, that area is such an awesome fishery. Sorry to hear about the gear. That stuff drives me nuts, thing is, its usually some high school punks that probably don't even fish. Maybe you'll get lucky and find your stuff on [Note-from-admin-Please-don't-send-folks-there] or something. How great would that be? Go to meet the guy in a public place and have the cops "happen" to show up as the deal goes down.

Our neighborhood has been getting some garage break-ins recently. I'm freaked enough that I moved all my gear inside despite the wife's objections. The lawn mower they can have, but I'd be heartbroken if they stole my rods.