Water Temp Reports

[Coleman]

Has anyone been on the water of areas lakes?  Kinda curious what the water temps are hovering around?  

[Coleman]

I was able to hit the chain on Saturday and cruised around a bit to see if I could find what the walleye were doing. Appears they should be spawning and did find what I think were a couple females just based on the location I found them. 

 

50° on the river and saw as low as 47° on the main lake. 

[DonkeyHodey]

fished the opener.  (we definitely overdressed!  What a day!  unfortunately the fish stories left much to be desired...  1 dinky nort, 1 dinky crappie and lost a medium bass at the edge of the boat...)  Shocked we couldn't get northerns to bite...

The other fisherman on the lake seemed to fare no better/?worse than we did...

Lake was glass;  you could see crappies hanging out in the shallows (~2-3 feet of water) but they would ignore anything we threw towards 'em...   

 

water temp was 57-58 degrees at Beaver Lake (south of St. Cloud).  After Sat and Sun (and the forecast this week), I suspect the area lakes will be well over 60 degrees by this weekend.

Vegetation in the lake still looks like ice out;  there's nothing green yet.  (that'll change now with these warmer nights forecasted...)

[DonkeyHodey]

Fished the weekend--Upper Spunk and Pine Lake. 

Lake looks like a time warp compared to last weekend:  green bullrushes are up/2 feet.  Lilly pads are emerged.  green vegetation everywhere.

water temp was 74 degrees at the access and 69-72 in the body of the lake!--almost 15 degrees in 1 week!  This in an almost unheard of warm up before memorial day. 

(unfortunately, that means we'll all have to deal with more wake boarders and tubers for the long weekend...     On that note **grumpy old man alert**--There was a high-water, "no wake" alert posted at the access;  despite that, some yahoo is out doing circles with his wake boarder for hours... Grrrrrrrrrr.)

 

Crappies and sunnies are REALLY shallow and can also be pulled out of water not even knee deep.   Go easy on those spawn beds please: Crappies are still in the pre-spawn to spawn stage.  Sunnies are staging and getting ready.