pre-spawn bass

[bassfshin24]

Nice fish Rum! Looks like the river too me :-)

[RumRiverRat]

Nice fish Rum! Looks like the river too me :-)

Thanks

For the record I made the run to Grey Cloud and none of the pictured fish came from there.

I caught several small fish in Grey Cloud, fished an area I had never fished before and that is where all the pictired fish came from.

Only other boat in this area was a Nitro Z9 with dual power poles and the Hummingbird 360 sonar. 2 guys dressed head to toe in Nitro clothing.

When you stumble on a bunch of fish like that it is not wise to say exactly where you were.

A couple guys from here know where I was since we share info.

[blakjack23]

It was KVD!

[RumRiverRat]

It was KVD!

They were flipping tubes, everyone knows KVD can't flip, heck I am not sure if he owns a flippin stick.

[Craigums]

Soooo RRR wanna go fishing next week

[blakjack23]

They were flipping tubes, everyone knows KVD can't flip, heck I am not sure if he owns a flippin stick.

Thats definitely true.

[RumRiverRat]

Soooo RRR wanna go fishing next week

My days off are Tuesday and Wednesday.

[RumRiverRat]

oooofffff dahhh Tripple R.. any picts?

Funny story about the pics, I had them on my phone. Unfortunately my phone is at the bottom of the river about 3 miles downstream of 494, I thought they would have synced up with my cloud storage before my phone went in the river, but no such luck.

Also for the record I would never have started fishing Pool 2 if I had not fished it first with HSO member Aaron Carrell. His knowledge and insight got me started on the right track.

I have fished and hunted with several people from HSO and am very fortunate to have done so.

Heck my go to lake for Green Bass would not be if Juan Grande had not suggested we try it.

[bassfshin24]

Was out on a very small shallow metro lake last night and already saw beds with bass on them. Water temp was 66-68. It will be interesting to see what the lakes are like on opener.

[Craigums]

wow im shocked water temps were that high. i havent been out since sunday but I was still seeing temps around 53

[bassfshin24]

I was too but the deepest this lake gets is 10ft so I'm sure thats why

[Juan Grande]

RRR, I was out on said lake this morning. Small 100 acre lake and the water temp was 60 degrees. Didn't seem like much was happening up shallow. We crappie fished for a while and then threw some cranks and spinnerbaits for northerns. Caught two northerns and one small bass before the rain chased us off.

Brought my son out and he did great. Didn't chuck anything in the lake and, aside from dumping Chex mix all over the boat, behaved perfectly.

[BTL]

I like the sound of that. I hope I find water still in the 50s this weekend, cause I'll kill em on jerkbaits.

[EBass]

Finally made it out on Sat for a bit. Yup water temps were up in that 64-67 range. Caught some sunnies, crappies, a lil bass and a lil pike. Tried butter worms and they liked them.

[NELS-BELLS]

My son and I took the canoe back into a little secluded back bay on Sat evening in Central Mn. We were sight fishing for Sunnies and crappies. Saw plenty of nice sized bass and a few northerns in addition to the panfish. Most everything we saw was in a foot or less, up close to the bank. Also saw plenty of minnows which is why all those larger fish were in there. The bass were so aggressive that they were hitting our bobbers. We didn't see any beds. Unfortunately I don't know what the water temp was.

Nels