What was your 1st fish caught on the 2006 opener?

[The Yeti]

Mine was.. yep.. you guessed it...little snake northern. Those little buggers will eat anything!

[Chad Halvorson]

I actually caught a 14" Eye , but it was a little after midnight so what would you expect! Last year It was a Rock Bass!

[PikeBayCommanche]

19 inch Pike Bay Walleye.

Fat and healthy. Coughed up 2 shiners had barely swallowed yet.

[fishinphilth]

15" walleye. first time in 3 years that I caught one, so man was that a relief.

[deepportage01]

14 inch snot rocket, man he almost had me fooled

[wplatehunter]

rock bass

[traveler]

22" walleye. 1 am on a husky jerk, turned out to be the best fish of the nite...

[eyepatrol]

16.5" walleye at about 7:00am on my secret walleye presentation....jig & minnow.

Was by myself, so only way for me to take a pic was when it was in the net just after landing the fish.

[mille lacs muskie bum]

40" muskie on a lindy rig with a leech.

[harvey lee]

My first fish on Sunday morning was the king of the bottom dwellers-sheephead. Caught numerous ones and only a couple eyes.

[paceman]

about 10 minutes after I dropped the line saturday morning a big fat trophy 6 inch perch hammered my poor defenseless minnow. A sign of things too come.......

[The_Duckslayer]

Your not gonna believe the size of the first fish that I caught! It was a 5 inch walleye! It takes great skill and cunning to hook something like that ya know! I put it back to fight another day! Take care and N Joy the Hunt././Jimbo

[Butternut Point]

24" Walleye at about 2:45 am Saturday Morning off the dock. Jig and twister tail. I hope its a sign of things to come!

J-Hawk

[zepman]

Took about 2 hrs. but the first fish for me was a chunky 22" walleye.

[icehousebob]

Two of my sons were fishing on Tonka with a friend and the friend only caught one fish all day. It was a 46 inch Muskie that scarffed his fathead minnow. It took him over twenty minutes to land it and the fish ripped up my sons hand when he landed it. The kid had taken the reel off one of his ice rods to use and he only had 25 yards of 10lb. test line on it. A couple times he was looking at a bare spool after the fish ran.

[No_Net]

Mine was a nice healthy 16in eye on a lindy rig and shinner. Almost was a northern spit the hook right at the side of the boat.

[bicfish]

mine was a 24" walleye,not huge but was a good start to the year

[mntraveler]

Gissert, you must've been on Rush with me...a snaky little northen was fist fish on my line...the first of dozens for the day...

[Borch]

For me is a big old rock bass. Funny thing is that I wsn't surprised that it was.

[buddha]

Well I fished Big Stone a few weeks ago, and I hooked into a nice Freshwater Drum, and last weekend a Largemouth. I caught eyes at Big Stone, but still skunked closer to home.

[BobT]

Because most comments about the lake I fished seem to suggest it is a better walleye lake than I have found it to be, I will not mention the name. Of course, my fishing prowess might have more to do with my lack of success than the lake itself.

This year it surprised me though. I only got out for a couple hours on Sunday mid-afternoon and landed 2-18" and 1-16" walleye on a sand flat using a jig and minnow combination. These are the first three fish I caught and...well...the only three fish I've caught so far this open water season.

Bob

[Fish Head]

About 5:30am on Saturday. 13" walleye on a jig and minnow at Cass. It was the first and the smallest walleye of the trip.

[Outdoors_guy]

Well my first fish was at 12:40 a.m. and it was a good start to the year with a 24" walleye. Buddy of mine standing next to me caught a 24" also at 12:15 a.m.

[outdoor ran]

My first fish on Sat was a ten pound catfish with a jig and a minnow. Not what i was looking for but it bent the pole pretty good.

[LEECH21]

Saturday morning about 6am I hooked into about a 14 inch walleye at boatside. I set the hook...and it flew into the boat! Didn't even get to feel it fight a little Only fish we caught.