Absolutely amazing how well the lake has rebounded from the spring survey! 
This is great news for the local businesses though as long as they get good ice. I will be making a couple trips up there this winter mostly targeting perch but wouldn’t hate catching a slot fish. Spring and summer, at least for us, the majority of the walleyes boated were 21-23 though.
I was wondering how it compared to last year, seemed to see a lot more outrage last year.
For me:
Walleyes
-jt gold digger: purpledescent rattlemaster
-Elliot rippineyes: jiggin rap
Panfish
-tucr bullwhip:perch pinhead minnow
-2 cheaper noodle rods:gold and wonderbread jigs+plastic
-Elliot paragon: 1” hyper rattle
Have an evolution series 42” noodle too but that just stays in the box these days, much prefer the 36” bullwhip.
In NYC for opener…… Probably skipping it all together this year though. One of those who’s spot is way up north with just the wolves around.
I’ll be duck hunting as even on the slowest of days the pheasant hunters on opener get the birds moving. Might go for a quick walk when we’re done with the ducks since we’re already there and there’s been a good amount of roosters around.
Good luck to everyone.
Surprisingly there was actually a good push of new birds for the “reopener”. No one else seemed to be hunting though so made it tough to keep the birds moving. I got my 6 including a green head, eclipse pintail, 2 blue wings and 2 green wings. This weeks forecast looks awful again… here’s to hoping for cold and north west winds.
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Western MN. Seems like with the north winds the birds that were there took off and didn’t get replenished.
Today was a grind but got our 2 man and 2 bonus geese. 9 blue wing, a green wing, a very brown Drake mallard, and a redhead. Far fewer ducks and much less movement. praying for some fresh birds for next weekend.
We shot our limits pretty quick so wasted some time waiting for the geese. Listened to the other group of EIGHT in the slough unload on every duck that flew within 60 yards. They must’ve gone thru an entire case. Our bag was 9 blue wings, 1 green wing, 1 Drake woody, a gadwall, and 1 goose. So many spoonbills around but they get a pass for now. High hopes for the morning with a full moon and north winds.
Where is lock port ?
Just north of Winnipeg
Lots of roosters cackling while sitting in the duck blind this weekend. Sounded like quite a few were younger birds. Fingers crossed they make it to late season when I prefer to chase them.
They moved it out of October quite awhile ago now to appease the guys that wanted to shoot teal and hunt in warmer weather but this year is especially early. Hate it. Would love to see it go back to October now that we are doing a teal season.
11 blue wings and 1 green wing today for us, the geese we did see had their own plans. Fun 2 days and looking forward to opener in a few weeks.
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11 blue wings, 1 green wing, 1 goose for my dad and me. Back at it tomorrow. Not a ton of birds around but there’s enough and lots of water.
A 3 man dove limit sounds amazing.
I didn’t realize there were 200 anglers in the Bassmaster Opens. That’s a lot of boats. I know Leech is a big lake but I have to imagine a lot of anglers are condensed into smaller specific areas together.
I cant wait to see a picture of what the party on stony point looks like 
huge bag from Fothergill going for 26-10 and biggest SM was 6-4. Smallies are the real deal out there thats for sure
yea that will be my backup plan
Spent the day on the lake and wish I had used the clicker. Easily over 50 walleyes in the boat and way too many that didn’t bite as well. Every fish was caught on a slip bobber on the flats. Biggest was 27”, smallest was probably around 15”. Majority seemed to be in the 20-22” range. For the life of me I cannot understand the DNR’s assessment of this lake as every fish was extremely healthy and well fed which could not be said 5 years ago… oh well that’s a different thread, fun day.
May be a dumb question but why wouldn’t you get a house mover to come in and move it out of danger. Too much $$$$. Easier for the county to buy you out?
Same for the house. Does insurance cover anything?
What I read said they brought in a contractor to look at the possibility of doing this but the contractor said it was too dangerous for them to attempt.
Did very well on tonka this morning. Water temps were 67 on the garmin. Most females were still holding eggs. 4-6 feet of water. 1/16oz jighead w a Kalins tickletail in jimmys fav color.
I like if you don’t get one this season it just rolls into the last season.
I love that they changed this. Besides, late May can be fantastic hunting and the pressure is still pretty low.
0/2 on trying to post this from my phone so here it goes from the computer:
I got one on fishing opener. It was my third day of hunting after getting close on Thursday evening and on Friday(a hen intercepted him on his way to me). Figured out where the majority were roosting so I snuck in early Saturday to a huge oak flat on top of a ridge. There were multiple birds gobbling from each of the 5 points off this ridge but they all had better plans and disappeared after flydown. Finally struck a lonely tom around 10am and 5 minutes later I was tagged out. Off to WI for a weekend then back to MN to try and help my dad and a friend fill their tags. Fishing starts in June 
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Went out Tuesday to check a spot Ive found them in the past. Nothing. Walked 30 yards to a dying elm I hadn’t noticed before and found a bunch. Picked a handful of the bigger ones for a ribeye that night and will check back next week to see what the little ones turned into. For me at least, finding them is more fun than eating them.
ill start in 8 days
congrats guys!
The usual fishing opener tradition with my dad… going turkey hunting 
dhpricco – for the last 2 years I have a jake, breeding hen and a hen decoy out during first season. Have had birds right up to the decoys both years.
I agree with this, if im running decoys its 2 hens and a jake.
Still seeing quite a few big flocks around town here with an occasional loner hen wandering around but lots of gobbling. Good luck to everyone hunting the first couple seasons, ill be out in May.
I called a couple of weeks ago and the call back time was 2 hours. Sure enough 1 hour 50 minutes later they called back and got the problem solved.
Schlappers face during weigh in said it all, he was pissed. Heck of a day and tournament from Kyoya. 2Ws and 6 top 10s in 10 events is an unreal start to his elites career. Will be interesting to see if anyone can stop Livesay from 3 in a row at Fork.
I intend to go to the range and take a shot or two with the TSS rounds I currently have before turkey season since I did not have time to last year.
If you dont mind, what ranges let you shoot bird shot?
