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Deitz Dittrich Grand Master

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depends on what you call spring.. here in MN, Bass season is closed. But once season opens.. I do best on soft plastic jerkbaits... Fishing the inside weed edges. Spinnerbaits reeled over the top of weeds, and flipping tubes in the holes in the weeds... Hmmmm... Weeds!

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Deitz Dittrich Grand Master

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Well, consider this.. not all lakes are created equal. And much of where the bass will be will depend on what is available to them. I have fished some of the bassiest(is that a word?) looking areas that didn't hold bass.. or at least not that day.

Early in the year, fish shallow. Some days, depending on the time of day and weather patterns, they will be in the thick stuff. Othe days, they will find the thin areas, and others yet they will just roam the weedlines.

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I also like to fish inside weedlines in the spring. I like to find a point or a hump with a flat top on it with deep water near by. Spawning is over by the time we hit the water in Minnesota for the most part. But the fish will be in post spawn mode. I like tube, senkos, jigs, Soft jerkbaits and Crankbaits with now rattles (RC 1.5).
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in my little experince fishing in the spring has been boom or bust. We fished way up north one opener and just slammed them. We caught a couple hundred in 3 days and it was really good. i have also had an opener in southern mn where it was cold and coldfronty and we struggled. As far as lures and places go when they were hitting you could catch them on anything you wanted to and it seemed anywhere you wanted to shallow and deep. Really different each year and depends as well on your lattitude north and south in the state. No absolutes that is what makes it fishing. sorry to give such a politicians answer, but that is just my experience. ike

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JP Z Grand Master

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Nice............

The type of year it's been is the real determining factor in what I will fish on opener. For instance 2 years ago they were on the beds or getting ready in the shallows.

Last year they seemed to have already spawned and were on the outer weedlines on the lake I fished..........So it helps if you can get on the water before open and just get a feel. That has helped me, I'll be crappie fishing or piking and then just pay attention to whether or not I see Bass around. If not, then I think to check deeper, etc.

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Thats exactly what I do. I will be targeting shallow Walleyes or Pike and just conciously paying attention to whether or not there are bass around. Typically, any lure a walleye or average Pike will hit a Bass will hit. If there are numbers shallow or a bit deeper... I will adjust from that info when targeting the Largies. I love throwing t-rigged worms, jigs, and shallow cranks, and buzz baits when fishing shallow, and cranks, jigs, and heavy spinnerbaits when fishing deeper weed edges.

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Do any of you guys fish for smallies in the Cannon or Straight Rivers?...I love catching them but Southern MN doesnt have much of a population...I am looking for a place to go on opener, somewhere not far from Mankato, I am guessing that these rivers are the closest smallmouth waters around here, or am I wrong?

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