First fish of the open water season.

[The Hammer]

Today was the first day of the open water season. It didn't all of about three minutes to land a 29 1/2" walleye with a 21" girth. What a start to a year.I didn't expect that at all. This will be a replica fish without a doubt.

[Schloogs]

WOW, congrats on the monster.

[DTro]

That there is a beauty!

[harvey lee]

Way to lay the smack down on the pig eye.

[bassNspear]

now that is a toad. Awesome fish hammer

[MarkAlm]

that fish made my heart skip a beat , very nice!! i would like to know if you were pitching jigs, but you don't have to tell.

[backtroller1]

Nice fish... Red wing I assume?

[The Hammer]

Mark

We were vertical jigging. I was using a jig with a blade on it. Pool 2

[upnorth]

WOW, that is one heck of way to start the season.

[Northlander]

NICE FATTY!!!!

[jwhjr]

Nice fish, that's a hog!

[sparcebag]

Thats a fine eye!

[fishn4kids]

WOW!!! Nice fish. Where can I get one of those? Hopefully pool 4 here in about 2 or 3 weeks.

Duane

[Team Otter]

Oink, oink; looks like the Rainy River...

Great looking fish!

[youngie22]

Beautiful girl; hopefully you find her again w/ a few more inches and a few more pounds a couple years from now.

[Jim Almquist]

What a great start to the open water season and it took a couple of minutes to make such a great memory.

[Eric Wettschreck]

Holy wow!!! Nice, very nice!!!

[loejay]

Made my knee's shake just lookin WOW!!!

[hanson]

That's Awesome!! Congrats!!

Gotta love those river 'eyes!

[Andrew Erickson]

what a pig!congrats on the trophy

[Sandmannd]

Awesome fish, that this is a hog!!

[The Hammer]

Thanks

[Lunker]

Nice fish. Where do you go from there?! My first open water fish this year was a 17" smallie, and I thought that was nice...

[H two O]

Beauty!....I would love for my first open water fish to look like that!

[walleyeaddict]

beautiful marble eye!