How was your opener?

[grab the net]

We got out early before the hurricane wind started this afternoon. Did well.

[H0LE HOPPER]

Definately on of my better boated about 25 bass and 7 pike missed a ton man my adrenaline is still pumping!!!

[Ufatz]

Did you fellas note the water temperature where you were fishing. We had surface temps of only 61.4 and wind.

What were your temps/conditions??

[thatoneguy]

Didn't get out today, but will be out all day tomorrow.

[HossFisher]

Fishing was decent today as the water warmed up, 58 degrees at the beginning of the day and found water as high as 65 degrees in some of the backwaters. Finding warm water was crucial to finding fish.

[itchmesir]

Waited til afternoon.. got out and caught a couple dinks.. nothing special.. pretty sure the area I was fishing got pounded earlier in the day.. wanted to take the long rod but was very windy.. we'll see how the weather shapes up tomorrow

[bucketmouth64]

Was first at the landing which was surprising since we got their a bit later than usual. First cast wife caught a bass not far from the landing. Fish were hitting for about 2.5 hours then they shutdown/slowed down. We caught about 25 bass/northern in about 4 hours of fishing. Nothing over 2 lbs, water temps. varied from 59-62. Water was a bit more stained than usual probably from all the rain and wind stirring things up.

[RumRiverRat]

Did well.

Found lots of Largemouth on the first breakline at the mouth of bays with shallow weed flats and a sand bottom on the inside weed edge.

Weeds were only a few feet at most above the bottom, fish were holding in the weeds.

Pulled a few off beds. Most of the bass are still in pre spawn mode.

Fished 1 foot to 10 foot deep.

Used KVD 1.5 and 2.5, DT6 and DT 10, Husky Jerk #10 Chatterbaits, Strike King Shim-E-Stik, Ring Fry on a weight EWG, Red Eye Shads.

My dad and I caught 38 in roughly 4 hours fishing this morning.

I fished a couple hours this afternoon and caught 4 more.

[Gardiner14]

Didnt get out, going early all day tomorow to Baby lake. Should be intresting never been there before but love exploring new lakes.

[jac714]

Hit Medicine Lake this morning and had a good day. We boated a bunch of fish, Bass, Pike, Sunnies. Most of the bass were respectable size.

[zzz]

went out to day had tough time water temp 58 degrees got 6 in four hours clear lake

[cherokee]

Caught a fat 21 1/2" full of eggs. Back she went.

[BigGrassBass]

The key for me was slow and super shallow. No monsters but the boy and I put 10 in the boat in 2 hours. Worms and twitching a rapala on the surface were the best things. As long as it was slow you were OK.

[thatoneguy]

Everything was biting on Leech today. Bass, pike, pannies. VERY fun morning. I'm going to go watch the Excel weigh in I think...if a novice like me can put together a bunch of chunky fish, I have to believe there will be some very heavy bags coming in!

[Gekhang]

didnt have as much success with mine. boated 4 in 5 hours. 3 of the 4 in the last hour. had no luck on the spinner bait, sebile magic swimmer or even larry dahlbergs diver frog. Caught 3 with a hand tyed bucktail jig and one on gy fat ika.

[Chris519]

A good day out there today on a west metro lake. My best 5 went 17-11. Biggest was only 3-15 but the average size was nice!

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

Went to Demontreville yesterday from 10-3pm. Caught a few one pounders, one three pounder, and one two pounder. That was all! There were at least 10 boats on that lake. Didnt even make it to olsen. We did find a spot where a bunch of breeding bass were. It was the spot, but the wind blew us all around the area even with the anchor.

We used a variety of baits, but the most sucessfull ones was a black 5inch senko rigged wacky and a 5inch shadalicious.

[Fisherman45]

Between 3 of us we had 67 bass from 6:30am to 3:00pm today 19.5 was the biggest with only 5 being 10" or less. Mostly frogs in pads with a few on some hard top water baits all in 5' or less. Was one of the best openers for a while for us.

[Gardiner14]

Went to Baby today got there at about 7am, beautiful out not a wave on the lake. Didnt catch a thing. Went to Mule at about 1:30pm and caught 3 smallies and one largie. Used every thing on both lakes from spinnerbaits, cranks, senko, jigs u name it we used it. WAter was only 56 still.

[SteeveeD]

As a non boater I tried 3 west metro fishing piers and caught zero bass. Tried a swim jig, fluke style bait, weightless t-rig, shallow crank bait. I didn't see many fish boated even though a lot of people were out. Better luck next time I hope, maybe tomorrow!

[Gekhang]

caught a nice 4lber this evening fishing in heavy vegetation!

[mww24]

fished a small metro lake this morning. Water was 62-64. Didn't see a fish up shallow. Don't know if there done spawning or haven't yet. Only had one on. maybe a 3 pounder. don't know how it got off until i looked at my spinnerbait and realized I hadn't taken the plastic tube off the hook they put on for the store. The fish held onto it for about 30 feet and I watched it the whole time. He really wanted that bait. was fishing in 12 feet when I caught that one. My boy caught about a 100 small sunnies though. So the trip was a major success.

[Irish]

Fished Tonka on opener morning and boy it was tough only got 5 in about 4 hours, biggest being about 3 pounds. Warmest water I could find was 60 which was colder than I expected. I'm not sure where the big females were, I saw a lot of small buck males cruising the shallows and guarding beds that were extremely difficult to catch.

[SledNeck]

Caught 20 bass in 4 hours yesterday.

SledJR didn't do so well!

Left early after I was gonna troll a shoreline out but some dudes with huge mullets in a 1970s bass boat, motor right in infront of the way I was going and they start fishing. I said " you just gonna @$)$&@@ cut infront of me" and they said "were going this way" ..... Unbelieveable.

[TonkaBass]

That's always a bummer sled. If they knew they were messig with a guy who never smiles they would have thought twice! Lol