Opener Results?

[RumRiverRat]

How did everyone do?

Did the weather keep you off the water?

Talked to someone who was getting them on Money Frogs this morning before lightning chased him off the lake.

[basssmasher*]

I caught my limit on cranks, unfortunately it was on my WIi .

[walleyeking19]

I didnt get any fishing in today cause of the white caps and rain. Instead I hung some shelving up in a closet and cleaned. It's a long season, so I got time to get out!

[Gordie]

Joey And I boated Several each along with a few pike.

It was tough finding what they wanted but once we did it wasn't to tough to get a few.

They were shallow early in the morning like under the docks but they wouldn't touch worms or tubes but throw a spinner bait by that dock and they would blast out and pound it.

Later in the day they were in the submergent weeds and they wanted the spinner bait just above the weeds

Pike wanted the spinnerbaits along with a spoons

[LegattoAD]

Was out in the morning before the first storm rolled through. Caught a nice 3lber and a hand full of little guys, pike, and crappie. All on a beetle spin.

[Mons]

We got out yesterday after the storms for about 4 hours in the afternoon. Found them out in clumps of weeds in 3-5 feet of water. We caught about 30 total with most being 14 and 15 inchers but we also got a couple nice 17s. We got a few fish on senkos but the vast majority came on swim jigs and spinnerbaits.

[CAMAN]

Out for about 7 hours in the Park Rapids area. Didn't get any rain but it was windy. Many LM and SM. Biggest LM went 18.5 with 3 others breaking 18 and a handfull of 15-17s. Biggest SM went 17.5 and 6 others between 14-16. Also boated a high 20s pike and 18 inch eye.

[ANYFISH2]

Fished from 7:30-1:00 saturday. Caught a ton of fish, between the two of us, 80 Largmouth that ran ran pretty small 13-15" with a 17" being the biggest. We did see some males on beds and what looked like unfinished beds all over the lake. senko's and spinnerbaits where the most effective.

[Pherris]

Was only out on Prior for a couple hours early. Spinnerbait was the most sucessful with a few on texas rigged craw. Was out again today on Prior and again the spinnerbait was top producer. Nothing huge but lot of fish.

Good Fishing!!

PS.

DNR was checking boats and if they arrived at the ramp with the plug in they got a ticket. Also I was amazed at how infested the lake is with zebra muscles. Sometimes we would pull in a weed and there were 10+ attached to on strand.

[mww24]

Hooked boat up at 6AM. got in truck. Drove 5 miles and started having major truck problems. Slowly started my way back home and had to pull over onto the shoulder because my truck was acting so goofy. Finally made it home after limping the 5 miles back at 25mph. backed boat into driveway. Got out to chalk tires and heard hissing coming from right trailer tire. Picked up a huge bolt in my short 10 mile journey. I assume I did it when I pulled off the road. So the truck malfunction saved me from having to change a flat on the road or at the launch. I think the truck has a clogged catalytic converter and I need to get the tire patched and use it for my spare now. So all in all It was a great day. Glad some guys got on fish. The fish gods just didn't see me getting on the water yesterday.

[RumRiverRat]

Fished an Eastern Wright County body of water today.

Fishing was Ok.

Got my butt kicked by the guy in the back of my boat.

The 2 of us put 5 in the boat that were 17 to 19". We had on 5 others that we never saw that came unpinned, all were as good if not better(based on the strong head shakes and drag peeling runs.) than the ones we actually managed to get in the boat.

Started the morning skipping Flukes under trees overhanging the bank.

Juan Grande was the guy in the back of my boat, his bigger fish came on a Senko fished on a Weighted EWG and a Texas Rigged creature bait.

We caught a handful of 12 to 15" fish and called it a day about 11:30.

Would have liked to stayed and fished in the wind since the bigger fish were coming off the outside weedline on the windy side of the lake, but we both had things to do this afternoon.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Sat AM was brutal. The lake I was on was really green, mix that with the front coming through I only fished an hour or so and bailed before the down pour came.

Today, fished about 3 hours with a friend who is somewhat new to fishing but we still did alright with 20-25 fish. He caught his on senkos and I caught mine on jig/pig and spinnerbaits. Two biggest, about 17", came on the jig.

[Craigums]

65-66*F on Prior lots of sunfish beds looks like the spawn is over for the most part. Lots of fish caught on grubs, and cranks. A Few 17'' fish came on a jig.

[thatoneguy]

Yesterday sucked, today sucked until I found a huge herd of hungry largies. After that it was game on for an hour straight - some of the best action I've ever had. So glad I decided to try one more spot before heading in!

[Craigums]

Yesterday sucked, today sucked until I found a huge herd of hungry largies. After that it was game on for an hour straight - some of the best action I've ever had. So glad I decided to try one more spot before heading in!

What kind of spot? all the fish I caught were scattered. Great to be out on mn waters though

[Stick in Mud]

I was up in the BWCA, and we did Ok on topwaters over shallow rubble/basketball-sized boulders....got maybe 20 or so, but it rained the ENTIRE week, so we didn't get out as much as we should've. None of them were the "normal" Crooked Lake monsters, so I'm guessing the females were a bit deeper, but we didn't want to stop fishing the poppers and buzzbaits long enough to look for them.

[walleyeking19]

My fish were scattered too. Ended up getting 12 yesterday afternoon. Lots of small ones, but i had a few 15-16 inchers throwing a crankbait up shallow

[Wayne Ek]

Saturday was great, Sunday was Ok and Monday was Ok. Here are a couple of the better fish from Saturday.

All those fish are post-spawn fish, tails and fins pretty much healed up and the huge bellies are full of small minnows and sunfish.

[bassfshin24]

Hit Mille lacs for opener and did alright considering the weather. A lot of 2.5-3.5lbers....biggest smallies were two at 4.25lbs and one at 4lbs. Caught 7 largemouth today with only two being under 3lbs..biggest was 4.5lbs.

[Stick in Mud]

GREAT pics...sad to have missed the Mille Lacs smallie opener. Spent my "opener" up at Crooked Lake in the BWCA catching them on poppers.

[Prairiefire]

Did your green jacket hit the exhaust on your auger after cutting a few holes? I have a jacket with the exact same burn marks

[bassfshin24]

haha...that's exactly what happened!

[fishingnoob763]

fished sunday from 8-3 at a local lake near me. Boated and release 30 lmb average 14-15 inches. Biggest I had that day was 18.5 inches. All in 4-6 foot of water. Jigs, spinners and cranks. All and all great day and I got to test out my new/used boat. Left the lake right before the sunday evening storm hit the cities.

[funbilly]

Went out on the Bear Sunday found a inside corner that dropped from 6 to 18 fast and good weeds. had to anchor the boat in the wind. So my fishing partner was in great position as the back of the boat was the best place to fish the corner. I couldn't buy a fish, but he caught them on cranks, tubes, and, T-rigged worms. He didn't catch one under two pounds largest being 3lbs. He was a happy camper. I was too. He has spent many of days in the back of my boat watching me have a great day.

[Juan Grande]

Here's the two biggest I got fishing with RumRiverRat on Sunday. Both fish were around 18 inches or so.

On a senko fishing an outside weedline

Got this one on a T-rigged creature bait dragging across a rock pile.