How was your MN walleye opener?

How’d you guys do?
A buddy, his son and I shore fished for a couple hours last night on the cannon river. My go-to mister twister wasn’t working in the first five minutes,so I switched to a half worm on a plain hook, and proceeded to catch a bunch of sheepshead. Broke off a medium sized pike and a good walleye this way. Switched back to a pulsar and immediately caught my one and only keeper walleye.
Nothing spectacular, but a good night with good friends. I call it a win.
Hope you guys had a great opening morning! Good luck, tight lines, hope to see you out there!

Few walleyes on Rush this AM for a few hours. Rigging half crawler or a leech,.
Great weather. Great to be out.

Will wrap up fishing for me this weekend. Good luck fellas

We need wind and clouds. Got a few though.
DT

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Picked a limit! Going fishing this evening.

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So far so good. Need more minnows.

I’m thinking of trying the deepest spot in the lake and throw all my fishing related items there. Then take of knitting.

Golf works also

Eelpoutguy wrote:

I’m thinking of trying the deepest spot in the lake and throw all my fishing related items there. Then take of knitting.

Can you DM me coordinates? Walleye opener for me was in March and I have thought about finding a new hobby every other trip since then. One day they will jump in the boat for us! Good luck guys, keep grinding.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

I’m thinking of trying the deepest spot in the lake and throw all my fishing related items there. Then take of knitting.

Are you fishing for pout?

I just got off the river. We had 2 fish to show for 7 hours of fishing. Was terrible. Not sure the difference between today and last Thursday when we did great.
But it happened. Im going home with my head down and re thinking my hobbies

Fished Mille lacs from 1230 to 530 this morning. 35 walleyes most 17-20 inchers. Did catch 5 keepers and kept 2 22inch fish. Biggest was 24.5. Also one 36 inch pike in the dark.

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Yup Morning bite was good sun popped and wind died bite got tough around 1030… should be fishing crappies now.

Not bad. 2 of us took 7 for the pan. Rigging and slip bobbering leeches.

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Beautiful morning!

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Didn’t fish walleyes today, but had fun on the big lake with the boys

(Our website isn’t live yet, waiting on my license from the USCG)

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B-man wrote:

Didn’t fish <em class=”ido-tag-em”>walleyes today, but had fun on the big lake with the boys

(Our website isn’t live yet, waiting on my license from the USCG)

sweet.

I got into a thick mess of slimy pike by accident today. Landed 14 of them total. I kept 2 of them that were just under 22 inches and had a fish fry for dinner. Once you get past the slime and y bones, they are pretty good out of cold water.

Also caught 5 largemouth and a rock bass.

Did anyone notice how low the water levels are? Holy cow, we need a monsoon of rain. The access points are down a foot.

gimruis wrote:

I got into a thick mess of slimy <em class=”ido-tag-em”>pike by accident today. Landed 14 of them total. I kept 2 of them that were just under 22 inches and had a fish fry for dinner. Once you get past the slime and y bones, they are pretty good out of cold water.

Also caught 5 largemouth and a rock bass.

Did anyone notice how low the water levels are? Holy cow, we need a monsoon of rain. The access points are down a foot.

Isn’t that the truth. The river is very low with very little flow. It was a great day on the river though. After running around checking wingdams for a while I ended up finding the eyes on a sand flat out in the current. All fish came from 9-13′ of water running 3-4 mph. The big one for the day was 24″, and a couple took a treble to the gills so they came home with me for a swim in the grease!

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Tough day on the water EP?
B-man those two boys of your look like they would be a hoot to fish with.I hope i can spend a day on the the water with you and the boys when your licensed.
They get to captain the boat of course.

gimruis wrote:

I got into a thick mess of slimy <em class=”ido-tag-em”>pike by accident today. Landed 14 of them total. I kept 2 of them that were just under 22 inches and had a fish fry for dinner. Once you get past the slime and y bones, they are pretty good out of cold water.

Also caught 5 largemouth and a rock bass.

Did anyone notice how low the water levels are? Holy cow, we need a monsoon of rain. The access points are down a foot.

not questioning or arguing about where you fished an water levels there, but when I was up in Itasca county 2 weeks ago the water levels were best I seen in a long time.

glenn57 wrote:

not questioning or arguing about where you fished an water levels there, but when I was up in Itasca county 2 weeks ago the water levels were best I seen in a long time.

Well that’s good, then it’s not down everywhere at least. The general trend has been quite dry though. We could use a good soak.

gimruis wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>glenn57 wrote:</div>
not questioning or arguing about where you fished an water levels there, but when I was up in Itasca county 2 weeks ago the water levels were best I seen in a long time.

Well that’s good, then it’s not down everywhere at least. The general trend has been quite dry though. We could use a good soak.

totally agree!!

Fished Leech all day, dozen walleyes, 1/2 dozen perch,
overall SLOW for as much water we covered…..

It was great! Got on some nice bass and a bonus pike. Weather was great to be out in the boat but once the wind stopped around 9 am it shutoff on the lake I was on.

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I finally caught a pike and told my buddy to get the net. Unfortunately my new custom walleye slip bobber rod built by Rodworks was under his foot.

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24 incher caught just outside emerging weed edge on a jerkbait in 8 fow..

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Eelpoutguy wrote:

I finally caught a pike and told my buddy to get the net. Unfortunately my new custom <em class=”ido-tag-em”>walleye slip bobber rod built by Rodworks was under his foot.

That is really to bad. Happened to me not to long ago as well.
But what’s up with that strange handle?

Got out on Mille Lacs about 7:30PM and fished until 5:30AM this morning. There were an incredible amount of boats on the lake. Most likely the most I have ever seen. The bite was really pretty slow until about 10:30PM. We were pulling live bait rigs with leeches. Most were slip bobbering. I think we only had 5 fish at 10:30. Once enough boats had left we switched to crank baits and the bite was much more productive. No big fish, and we did get a couple smallies and a couple rock bass as well. It was a fun night. 16, 21.5, 21, 16, 15, 16, 17.5, 20, 18, 15, 18, 20, 20.5, 20, 18, 20, 15, 14, 14, 15, 18.5, 17.5, 14, 21, 17, 18, 16, 21.5, 20, 18, 17, 15.

mojogunter wrote:

Once enough boats had left we switched to crank baits and the bite was much more productive.

That’s a good haul Mojo. You put in a lot of time out there. Looks like most of the fish are of similar size. Do you think they’re mostly from the same year class?

Weather made it hard to find fish that wanted to play ball. Spottails coaxed a few in the boat. Hoped the night bite would produce, never really came together. Going into the access, we turned our headlamps on and were greeted by a half dozen large walleyes in knee deep water. Something to think about for next time.