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| Fished Inde today. Surface temp started at 64.7 and gained several degrees throughout the day.
There is quite a bloom on the lake. A resident said it has been there for
about two weeks. He also reported that he had talked to 5 boats throughout the day and they
all reported similar results. A few bass, a few northerns, and no muskies.
Several boats were taking out while I was putting in and they reported slow for muskies.
I had a bass and a northern, but no follows. There has been alot of milfoil spraying
so many people were fishing points. There was a walleye contest there
today. I saw one of the winners hold up a walleye in excess of two feet.
There is a bass contest out there tomorrow. If I get out someplace
tomorrow I will report. It fells great to have the season open.
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | I hit Forest along with a small armada of other boats Saturday. It turned into one of my better muskie openers. We saw three fish in the morning. The biggest which made it onto my small black bucktail for a measurement of 43 solid inches. All the fish we saw came right out of the weeds, with a small black bucktail and a white tail on each time for me or my partner. All the fish were seen in very shallow water. 4-6 feet.
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | Fished a small western metro lake Saturday. Lost one on a white tiger Manta had a couple of follows on a black Slowy Sam tipped with a glow tail. Nothing big all fish in the 30's range, a bit of a slow day all in all, but still nice to get out.
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| Hit Alexander (I know it's not exactly a Metro lake) Saturday and Sunday. Had 11 fish up on Saturday including a 40 that tried to eat my Squirrely Jake on a figure 8. Hook pulled out though. Had a real nice fish up on a Stomper later towards evening, and my partner had a 45+ up a minute later on a double tail Stomper. Saw two fish on Sunday, one small fish on a white Rad Dog, and a 40 on a Thunderhead. They could have been a little more cooperative, but it was great to be on the hunt again!
Good Luck to everyone this season,
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Location: Burnsville, MN | Hit a downtown metro lake. We had a great time 32, 35, and a 41 all on jerk baits, sand cat, reef hawg and a brown burt took the 41. 3 other follows on sub 40 fish. All fish came between 6:00am and 9:00am, on the deep weed edges. The water had a bloom as well, does anyone know which lakes were sprayed to kill millfoil? I'm fishing on Tuesday and will give a report. |
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Location: Alexandria, MN | Spent Saturday morning on Tonka, water was 63 in the main lake, some bays were 66 but the fish was very lazy. Pike were active everywhere we went. Like Andy said, we got to try a bunch of new lures, and learn which ones get to make it to the top shelf of the box.
Great day on Tonka -- Very few non-fishing boats.
Sounds like they were slow all over -- congrats to those few that boated a fish on the Opener!
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| White Bear on Sat. a.m. Had 5 follows, including a tanker which followed a Manta all the way to the boat, snapping and flairing at it. No go. Lots of pike. All muskies we saw were on deep breaks, but that's where we focused. Water temp was 64.
Tonka on Sun. p.m., had 3 follows: Bulldawg, Manta, Jackpot. No bites. Saw a large musky chasing baitfish in shallow water, but couldn't get her interested in anything. Water temp was 64ish about everywhere we went. Great evening on the water, though.
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| was out for a grand total of 3hrs on opening weekend saw maybe 10 fish total with 5 that were hard chargers and right on the bait,,,those fish are gonna go with a couple more warm days,,,on sun the weather in my area couldnt make up its mind what it wanted to do so I went to the multiplex and for $5 saw three movies,,2fast-2furious,,,Italian job,,amd Matrix Rloaded,,,"two thumbs up for all of them" |
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| Fished Bald Eagle last night. Geez, I tell you what, every year that goes by that lakes gets to be more of a sewer. There were walls of floating weeds everywhere!
No fish to be seen for me.
White Bear Lake and Forest Lake will get more looks soon since Bald Eagle is such a swamp ! |
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Location: Minnetonka , MN. | Was out on Tonka on Monday as got two fish a 32" and 33" in the same spot. |
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| Out on Forest Sunday. No movement for my boat. A couple dink northerns. Saw another boat stick a high 30/low 40" fish. Also saw 40s fish dying. Got hit by a prop. A walleye fisherman and his kids netted the fish and worked on it for about 20 minutes to no avail. Make sure those fish are ready to be released! Take your time! The walleye fisherman said he saw three good sized muskies die this way last year. |
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Location: Shoreview, MN | Fished BE for a couple hrs Monday afternoon. Surface temp was 75! As MuskyMidget says it's aready quite green and the curly pondweed's already up to the surface - lots of crud floating - even on the mid-lake humps. Lots of dead crappies too foating in the crud too. Smell was real pleasant. There are also weed harvesters out. Had a couple follows and one small one try to eat a spinnerbait in the thick weeds but missed.
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| Fished Tonka today. Water was still 64ish in the main lake and higher
in the smaller bays. 2 follows, but no bites. Being fickle, we shifted to bass
and had a great day on plastic worms and flyrod poppers. They hit the
poppers hard. Tough to find spots with weeds out of the wind. Maybe it
will be better tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who posts, it helps the rest of us
make decisions. I wanted to fish BE tomorrow, but Tonka it is.
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | I took the day off and headed out to FL today. Water temps were just under 63 in the morning, and made it up to 65 before I had to head home at 3:30. Picked up one small 30 muskie on a small black bucktail, and a couple small northerns. I thought I would do a little better with less traffic and some nice clouds, but no go.
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| Fished Tonka again today. Thought the conditions would help.
Caught a bunch of small pike and had three follows. It is awesome to
watch a musky when it makes eye contact. Most of the lake was in the 63-64
degree range.
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Location: Eden Prairie & Pine Island | Spent almost 5 hours on Waconia (5-10pm) yesterday and saw only one 'ski. Water temps 65-66 and plenty of healthy weed growth, but nothing moving. |
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Location: Hugo, Mn | My 2 boys were out on WB last evening and saw 5. Nothing big, one was pushing 40" they thought, the others were smaller. No takers just followers.
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| Spent part of the day on White Bear - 8 A.M. to 2 P.M. - but got completely shut out. No muskies, no bass, not even a stinking norton. Plus the boat traffic was insane. Should have known better..
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Location: Burnsville, MN | Was out on metro lakes on Sat, caught 2 sub legal fish on a Big Fork lure called Pulsator and twitchin a shallow raider. I was out at 5:30 but didn't start seeing fish until 9:00am, then we caught the two, had 2 others on and had 7 follows, only 1 was over 40 though. Most seemed slow, should really pick up soon.
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Location: Shoreview, MN | Fished Forest on Sat from 7am-1pm - NADA! My partner had one very slow lazy follow on one of the 1st lake humps - that was it. Weeds up nice and high, surface temps in the mid 70's. 3rd lake had a bit of an algae bloom starting, but not bad.
Fished Baldy Sun from 7-10 pm saw two large fish, one was really hot - slapped it's tail at a Jackpot twice, then tried to eat a creeper but the hooks didn't stick. Fish didn't start moving until after sunset - almost like someone flipped a switch. The skiers/boat traffic have started to cut down some of the thick stuff - amazing how stupid people are plowing right thru the thick stuff - but it's actually a little easier to fish the cabbage now, had a couple strikes in the cabbage but couldn't get 'em out. Biggest problem is there's floaters everywhere - pretty much impossible to fish topwater once it gets dark.
Wanted to try WB Sun night but there was a line 1/4 mile long along Hwy 96 just to get into the parking lot - probably 20-25 trailers in line! worst I've every seen it!
All in all seems like it's an evening bit right now - morning pretty much a waste of time.
Edited by MNSteveH 6/16/2003 9:01 AM
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| Was out on Tonka on Sat. morning. Had 5 follows and 2 that hit from under my boat, lost both fish. Out again on Sunday night (2 hours) had 2 more follows but no fish in the boat. The first follow was a very big fish.
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Location: Burnsville, MN | I was out last night on metro lake, the big girls were starting to move, although very slowly, brought 2 fish over 45 up on a musky candy spinner bait with trailer, but couldn't get them to bite, nothing on top water.
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| out on beaver lake on monday 6-17-03 i caught about 11 pound and a half crappies. huge crappies in this lake. |
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Location: Hugo, Mn | Was on WB last evening. Started fishing around 7:30. Saw 2 in the mid 30's but they weren't takin. My son had a hit on an Awaker after dark. Not sure what it was. Beautiful night to be out on the lake.
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| Was out on Whte Bear from 3:30 to 9:00 p.m. Only saw one fish but it was a beautiful mid 40's fish that came in on a topwater about 8:30, but wouldn't eat. Of course, the fact that I hit the fish with my rod trying to figure 8 it probably didn't help. My buck fever is truly something to behold!!!
The only real bummer of the evening was the flat tire I had on my truck when I pulled my boat out of the water. Made for a much later night than I anticipated. The f*#^#ing mosquitos ate me alive. Thank god for AAA. |
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| My wife and I had seven follows on a metro lake this morning. The only
bites we had were bass and northerns. All the musky follows were subsurface.
Some had flaring gills, but no eaters. The only surface action was two hits
by one fish on a Hawg Wobbler, however I think the fish was a bowfin. Maybe
I will try the night bite.
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Out and about on FL on this warm sunny day. Lots of lookers in the morning and afternoon (12), but only one aggresive fish in the bunch. All the fish were seen between 8-12 feet and followed small bucktails. Water temps were a solid 73.5 all day.
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Location: Minnetonka , MN. | Was out on Tonka on Monday. Had one fish on but it came out of the water and I lost it.Now I have to get ready for CROW.
Edited by TECK 6/24/2003 12:21 PM
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Location: MN | Out on Tonka last night. Had one blow up around 10:30pm. Just missed the bait....Other than that...action has been slow! |
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| I thought the fishing reports board would be overflowing, is the fishing so hot in the metro that everyone is too wore out to brag about it? Fish are moving everyhere in Ramsey and Hennepin county. I've been seeing 10-15 fish a day (mornings) with at least one each time in the high 40s. They are eating too. Spinners, shallow cranks on the deeper weed edges have fish, nothing on topwaters for me. Get your big fish now, get on the water. Capt bigfish |
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