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Well, it was opening weekend for waterfowl. Personally we saw a lot of ducks and geese early but when the season opened they had mysteriously disappeared. We ended up with one goose and a couple other opportunities for the weekend.

Saturday evening I went over to Koronis to give the walleyes a try for a few hours. I ended up catching 3 eater eyes and a couple of pike. One of the pike was a very nice one measuring 38 inches. All fish are still there as I already have a couple meals in the freezer. There were lots of boats out with the nice day. The fish seemed to start to turn on about the time I had to leave as I had an early morning appointment at the local duck slough. There were lots of shore fisherman and a few I talked to had been having some success.

So how was everyone else's weekend?

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Sartell Angler Mentor

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had a great time out at the cabin in the Belgrade area...my bro and I shot our limit of ducks on Saturday--mixed bag of BWT, GWT, Woodies, and Mallards

Sunday we ended up with 4 birds--a nice drake ringer, a young drake woodie, and 2 mallards (one of which had the full green head and was a giant).

Overall a great weekend to start the season. Can't wait for next weekend! Plan to get out around here once or twice this week also.

SA/wdw

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I finally made it to Koronis on Saturday. My son and I managed to catch 7 keeper walleyes, about 14-15". No big fish, just the nice keepers.

There were alot of boats out there, just a great day to be on the water.

Water temps were 57-58 degrees.

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Fished all day on Sunday.

Started the Day on Rush. Did not get the numbers I had been getting out there, but did catch some quality fish. Water temp about 58, Fish caught in windy areas.

Went home about 1:00, fried up some fish for myself and Mrs. Musk.

Hit the Mississipe from about 2:30 untill sunset. Caught some smallies and a pike. Water temp was 65.5.

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I was out on Lake Sarah on Saturday morning/early afternoon bass fishing. Pretty darn slow! Between my buddy and I we caught 10 largies in 4 hours. Biggest was a 4.5# pig my buddy got. Otherwise the bass were 1-1.5# average.

Beautiful day to be out!

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On Koronis Sat and Sun. There were a lot of boats and fishing was slow, but steady, several nice walleye eaters. Lot of ducks overhead and beautiful weather.

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