MN opener reports

[Andrew Erickson]

How did the muskies treat everyone? We hit a metro lake early this morning since I had to be back for a grad party by noon. Fished from 4-11:30 am. found water temps right around 60 but rose pretty quick as the morning went on. Lots of fish up shallow sunning themselves in the sand and it was a challenge finding weeds, but when we did they definitely held fish. I lost 2 small fish, one was from a net man error and the other fish just came unpinned after a couple seconds. Later in the morning I stuck a nice 41.5". She was beat up pretty good but she took off pretty quick. All in all it was a good outing and felt dang good to be back out throwin baits after this long winter/spring

[MuskieFever]

Nice work! Glad to see someone having success this morning.

[archeral566]

lots of follows around 10 foot in the weeds. around 11:30 one hit a jerk bait in about two foot of water but started to roll right once I hooked it and it came off. happy to be chasing skis again though.

[nater]

Nice start to the season. We had a handful of fish up between morning and afternoon, nothing big or aggressive. Trolled open water for about 4 hours mid-day but most of the bait was really deep. Nice to get out!

[Tommy1990]

I went up to the Park Rapids area. Fishing was great! Had a lot of fish follow, with a couple of giants, and stuck this 44.5"

[BIGRED07]

Tommy, I know where that pic is from!!! haha i had a tough opening day there, move to the longville area, and got 3 opening day, lost 2 on leech on the second day, and saw a total of 13 fish including two bigboys, for the weekend