Forum: Open Water

I got up early for some bassin' and the weather looked perfect! I started at auburn lake where I did well last year at this time. I started working the shore cover with a fluke, there was lots of wood cover and the water was high, usually a good combo, but nothing was going at all in the shallows....

I'm headed to Tonka or The Croix to check out some new spots. I won't be fishing but if someone wants to join me to throw for bass or northerns feel free. Leaving in an hour. 651-335-1896 Dan

I decided to head out to Waconia Saturday afternoon becuase I was almost there anyways and did good Wednseday. I started working the docks at the marinas for some crappies with a two inch power minnow. they were biting well, but were quite small, but I was able to sort out enough to bag a couple of...

I heard about this a while back but I thought it was just internet BS, however, I just received an email with a question about it and I started searching, this is what I found. http://www.boatus.com/gov/alert_0308.asp Look's like it's time to contact our Senator's and Reps.!!!!! Anyone...

Take advantage of Take-a-Kid Fishing Weekend June 6-8 Minnesotans who want to catch some quality family time are encouraged to take advantage of Take-A-Kid Fishing weekend, which is June 6-8. Minnesota residents 18 and older can fish for free during these days when they accompany an angler...

I took my Dad and Daughter out for a little pre-Memorial weekend festivities. We fished in 2 to 8 feet feet of water with red and white tubes and pink and white flu flus with wax worms and minnows. For searching I added a spinner to my tube and it made a world of difference in finding them. ...

I finally got out to do some open water fishing on Monday. I went with 2 other guys and outfished them 8-0. I caught 4 large mouths all small no bigger than a pound and a half, a nice sized crappie, a northern, and a small 13 inch walleye. I was surprised to catch the walleye, I was using a...

I was a late starter this year, like two months late! It was worth the wait though as I caught lots of fish. Started out fishing around the docks for some crappie, they bit pretty good, though they were runing kind of small. I went out deeper to see if they would be bigger, they were smaller. I...

Heading up to the pond to fish walleyes. looking for 1-3 guys to join me. I have a 21' Ranger that four can fish from with no trouble. I would like to leave early in the morning and be back at a decent time. If you dont have the gear let me know maybe we can work something out. I am looking for...

10:15 today, Sauk Rapids

Hey all, I was near Virginia MN this past week working at a camp and walleye fishing.. Well lets say the working was way more productive than the walleye fishing... It sucked... Then I just got home a half hour ago from fishing the red cedar and wow was it tough.. A few beds but empty and only got...

Sorry, Lance - I can't keep it a secret anymore.

Its time to get open water pics... Anyone have any good pictures from this year? We could use them for the main page. Kids are always good!

Good luck out there this weekend guys! Put this together last night....hopefully it will get your blood flowing a bit more for the 2008 fishing opener! And remember...."Set the Hook"! YouTube - Minnesota Fishing Video "Set The Hook" Magic

After reading the posts about the good action on pool 2 I remembered that I lost one of my anchors and haven't replaced it. All of the anchors I have tried I haven't been happy with, they don't hold my 17.5 ft Alumacraft very good. I have tried the "river" anchors and some funny looking deal I...

Hopefully this will work... Not being able to get out this weekend left me with a few hours on Monday to go out, got a friend from work who was off and we ended up just off 35w and the Minn river, weather was cloudy but ok till later in the afternoon, so we got a bit of carp fishing in. Seems...

I can't help but notice how bad the local lakes are getting pounded. Thursday I hit a lake that during the week, sometimes will have 2, maybe 3 boats on it and we got the last parking spot in a 25 spot lot. My buddy was putting docks in for a town house at another lake on Friday and in 6 hours,...

Stole a friends boat today and headed out East to find some white bass. Had a blast! I just had to catch one of those pesky eyes also:D.

A pile of friends and I have been able to hit a small lake in the northern metro and have been doing pretty decent on the crappies. here are some pics:

Mr. Herman, wondering how you guys did??? I need to at least live vicariously through someone.....lol Hope yoiur well. JW

Quick report from Round...water temp ranging from 42-47 degrees. It snowed saturday and fishing was slower than we liked. We boated 5 walleyes from 6'-8' of water, all on minnows. Sunday, the sun came out and it was on! 50+ Walleyes in the same depth, same bait. It took the sun 8 hours to warm...

I am planning on chasing some toothy critters in the North Metro on Thursday and I will have room for another if anyone is interested.

I'm looking for some help with suggested prop pitch on a 2001 Yam V Max 150 out board. I recently purchased a 2001 Lund Tyee 1850. After taking it on it's maiden voyage to KY lake crappie fishing, I'm not happy with how long it takes to get on plain. It's a typical Tyee but it does have a Yam...

This will be the first of several updates on the 8th Annual Trout Day. Please use the following information for reference as it will not change. 8th Annual Trout Day Forestville Mystery Cave State Park 8:00am - 3:30pm

We were talking about fishing in 2-3' of water for eyes on opener as an option and it struck me that I've never done this before as it is "out of the box". What other "out of the box" ideas am I missing? Any species...

Let's assume we get ice sometime next week in the northern part of the state. What kind of patterns are guys going to be trying? Where at in the spawn process will the walleyes be?

i like the response that i got on the rod thread, good to hear that people are using close to what i like to get the job done. im going to be lining the revo this week but wanted to get peoples takes on what they use for line. bass = 8-10 walley 6-10 depending on what water i am fishing and...

What is your favorite species to target during open-water?

Does anyone here do any fly fishing? I just bought my first set-up this past weekend and my fishing license today at lunch. I have no idea what flyies to buy for crappies or what to do?!?!? Any help would be great! THANKS!