Opener

[Chris Haley]

How was everybody's opener?  My family and I hit the water at around 1pm on Sat.  Took two scoops of spot tails with and ran out of bait at 4.  Put 4 walleyes, 15 perch between 10 - 12", and 2 Northern about 27" in the live well.  Let a 36" Northern go.  Fished no deeper than 6ft.  The walleyes were really biting light as numerous missed bites came back to the boat with the skin of the spot tail peeled down.  Fun 3 hrs with the wife and two 12 year old boys.  Looking forward to some better weather towards the end of the week. 

[InTheNorthwoods]

Sounds like similar luck to our boat.  I think we finished out with 8 walleyes in the box, along with about a dozen nice perch 10" or better.  Struggled to keep the small pike off the line, and experienced a few hook set break offs on what were assumed to be bigger pike.  Also looking forward to some warmer, drier weather.

[cluelessfisherman]

Pretty similar story in my boat.  Put about 5 hours in on Sat.   Ended up with 10 - caught them in 12-20' on shiners.  Caught close to 2 dozen pike as well.  Only got out for a few hours on Sunday in the wind and rain, but the weather seemed to move the fish shallower.  Pulled a limit out in 6-8'.