Boom to Bust - Anyone have luck?

[Hillbiehle]

West Metro - Spent Thursday evening bass fishing and doing quite well. After trying some different spots, we soon had them dialed in off the deep weedline and did very well. Saturday morning I anticipated good fishing as the weather had been rather consistent and began fishing the same area starting deep and moving shallow, ultimately moving all over the lake spending the next 11 hours getting my rearend handed to me. Total count was 17 small bass for 3 guys.

Did anyone have similar experience?

[bassfshin24]

I had a similar experience. Fished a metro lake Wednesday evening and did pretty well. Fished a different lake Saturday morning and it was tough to say the least. Fished for 5.5 hours and caught 5 fish. I did get two over 3lbs with biggest being 20" 4.5lbs. Fished yesterday morning on the lake I did well on Wednesday and got my butt kicked...4 hours of fishing and caught 3 dinks. Fished a different lake last night and did well haha. It has been a crazy week of fishing. I did get to call TIP for the first time last night...saw a guy keep a 2.5-3lb bass out of a catch and release bass lake. Not sure if the DNR showed up or not.

[serpent]

Saturday fished a lake I haven't been on for years and fishing was fairly slow. Did catch one that was 20 1/2". Nice and fat. Sunday was awesome. 46 boated, 5 over 20".

[Hillbiehle]

Can't figure out why Saturday was so difficult, particulary with the consistent weather. 3 of managed 17 bass. Most around 12" with maybe a couple around 14-15". Very frustrating as I can't put my finger on what I did wrong.

[Aaron Carrell]

Sunday was a very good frog bite for the 2 of us in my boat. Had a friend give a similar report elsewhere as well. I think the stable weather and overcast skies really turned them on in the shallows.

[basssmasher*]

I posted in another place that i did well both sat and sun. Although the size may not have been huge on sat 2.5lbs max i got 27 in approximately 3 hrs. Was fishing shallows with any type of tube bait, although I did notice less bites on a 4 inch tube than a 3 inch tube. Sun. was just as good, but the size improved also, with several pushing 4 lbs. 25 fish total, same tubes, and did manage 2 on a spro frog as well. But the water I was fishing had a bit of current to it (think inlets n outlets) and no more that 4 ft deep. of course I'm not fishing in the cities either (western Mn), so that may make a difference as well.

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

Saturday---did okay. Caught one at 2lbs 14ounces and another at 3lbs 9ounces. Lost a few big ones and big northerns.

All were caught casting outside of the weedline with a jig.

[kt]

We did very well both saturday and sunday in the alex/fergus area. No monsters though. Hit two lakes on sat. one for smallies and one for largies. Found most smallies still shallow around spawning areas with several still on beds. No pigs but lots in the 2-3 lb range. Ended up with 35 smallies in the morning between the two of us, caught a few off beds but focused more on cruisers. Caught most on jerkbaits, grubs, and swimbaits.

Hit a largemouth lake in the afternoon that had an awesome bite going. Biggest five went 21.5 lbs with the biggest two at 4.73 and 4.78. Caught easily 30 more fish between 3 and 4 lbs. Saw several fish still on beds but didn't really target them at all. Caught the largies on jerkbaits, swim jigs, and various soft plastics.

Sunday we hit a different largemouth lake in the evening and hammered them. Biggest five tipped the scales at 22.5 lbs with the two biggest both at a tad over 4.6 lbs. There were a ton of fish on beds on this lake with several paired up beds which was cool to see (full moon). We caught a couple off beds but again focused more on non spawners. Caught most of our fish on this lake on t-rigged plastics, but got a couple on jerkbaits and swim jigs. We ended up catching between 30 and 40 fish from 4:30 to 8:30 with an average size of right around 3 pounds.

We didn't get any 5's (and haven't yet this year but the numbers of 3-4.75 lbers we have caught the last week has been awesome. It has been a great start to the bass season, hopefully some of those big girls will start showing up in a few days.

[Superduty]

Sounds like KT has some great lakes to fish! It's always fun to see them paired up and doing the nasty

[Juan Grande]

I fished the Alex area the weekend after walleye opener. I was surprised at how few people were on the lakes we fished. I guess the fact that there are a lot of lakes helps spread things out. Must be great bass fishing up there since I'm guessing 90% of anglers are targeting walleye or panfish.

[RumRiverRat]

I had from May 24th to June 3rd off of work.

I fished all but 2 of those days.

Had a great frog bite several days on the same lake. A great Fluke/Senko bite on a small lake with Juan Grande. A frustrating Day on Mille Lacs with Juan Grande. A Frustrating day at the lake my dad lives on. Super Clear water, could see bottom in 20 foot of water when it was calm. Found fish on beds on that lake, work a couple that had fished paired up on them.

Ended the my vacation fishing a Maple Grove area lake Sunday evening and had an incredible 45 minute stretch where I hooked a fish on almost every cast and had fish blowing up multiple times on the rest of the casts. In that 45 minute stretch from 8:30ish to 9:15ish I wore out 2 Yum Money Frogs. Put 35 fish in the boat in 4 hours of fishing. Had at least 6 come unpinned before I could get them in the boat.

Cannot wait to get back on the water Friday Morning.