An actual fishing report

[Nick Kuhn]

I know many of you have to wait another few days but I tried my hand over in Wisconsin last weekend, albeit on less than stellar waters due to weather conditions.

I put in about 4 hours each day for muskies. Saturday and today didn't see a thing. Sunday had 2 follows, one in the mid 30's one was mid 40's. The theme seems to be fish hate the weeds right now. On most lakes they are just too new to be holding fish, and a lot of dead plant matter is on the bottom around those new weeds which isn't helping. And it wasn't just muskies that's been the case for, most every species seems to be concentrated elsewhere.

The 2 muskies I found were both on hard bottom features, where a shoreline running parallel to wind direction made a small jut out into the lake. Not really a classic point, just a tiny little bubble out into the wind. The trend was noticed with fish we were marking with the fish finder as well: tons of bait located near hard bottom where the wind was really howling. One fish chased a glidebait and the other chased a crankbait. Both in about 9 feet of water.

[Andrew Erickson]

nice report Nick, I also headed over to Wisconsin for opener and it was the best day I've ever had on the water. We were up at 330 am and were fishing by 545. I ended up putting 6 fish in the boat all on a custom soft tail phantom. Not any size but a good way to shake off the rust for the MN opener. Got a 28,33,33.5,34.5,35.5 and a fat 42 in the 8. Water temps varied from 57-59. All shallow fish coming from 5 feet or less. heck of a day!

[Nick Kuhn]

Maybe the mornings were the time to be out then. I was out in the afternoons. Had to cut the grass on Saturday while it was still dry, Sunday ended up fixing some trailer wiring, and Monday had to fix the pedal for the trolling motor (fished most of Sunday without being able to turn right with the trolling motor).

[pinkfloyd4ever]

Spent my morning on Gervais in E st. Paul, raised a very dis-interested tiger on a small spinner bait in 5 FOW.

Hope others had better success on the grandest opening of all

[Andrew Erickson]

I dumped 2 small fish and stuck a chunky 41.5. not a bad start

[MuskieFever]

Would've loved to know bald eagle was bombed will weed killer before I launched.......Raised one out of 7hours.

[50inchpig]

I'm usually not a big fan of the spray treatments but i don't think it'll have as big of an effect this year since the pondweed isn't up yet. I'm thinking a lot of it will be killed early instead of after it's full grown and won't mess up the water as bad, least I'm hoping.

There was some really nice cabbage in a lot of those areas and the fish were using it although we didn't see anything much bigger than 40" over the weekend.