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Why Okebena v.s. Round? Or Why Round v.s. Okabena? They are the same type of lake, pressure? water clearity ? Number of fish? What?

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Round Lake traditionally is a better opening day lake than Okabena is for whatever reason who knows. It's not because of pressure because without a doubt there will be a lot more boats on Round than Okabena guaranteed. Right now the DNR nets had shown Round with a lot more fish per net lift than Okabena even though Okabena still had good numbers and probably a better size average also. Kind of like saying why is Sarah traditonally better than Shetek? It just is.

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my family buit a cabin on sara back in the early nineties. we ended up moving to duluth when i was in 3rd grade, but i remember fishing on sara for opener and catching nice walleyes...its awesome to see there is still good fishing in the lake, lots of good fishing memories there!

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I'll either be trolling for snot rockets on Lime or jigging for eyes on Sarah.

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Do you want the truth? Anything you do on Sarah will get you a nice marble eye! Casting, jiging, trolling, drifting, slip bobbering, but I guarantee you that a Barbie pole, and a Lighting MacQueen pole will catch more than my pole! wink.gif

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Thanks for the tip! We just picked up a Lightening McQueen pole for my 4yo son. Better make sure I take it along! grin.gif

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I'm wondering and pondering between going to Lac Qui Parle or Shetek... Any suggestions on what may be the better choice this year for opener?

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I'm going to Loon on a hunch, it's time.


what loon lake are you talking about which county is it in?

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Im not going to be there but I agree Loon is due for some good fishing

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    • Bloatlord
      End of April is my guess for lakes along the I90 corridor.
    • leech~~
      Great.  Have to swing by soon to see what they have, then over to Petti Bros for some jerky and sticks!  
    • Dash 1
      Great news. They opened last Wednesday. Sounds like it’s about twice as big. Looking forward to checking it out soon. 
    • Luv2BowHunt
      It was dismissed before court via email correction from enforcement officer Robert Gorecki.
    • Luv2BowHunt
      It was dismissed before court via email correction from enforcement officer Robert Gorecki. 
    • Hookmaster
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    • TomWehler
      Yup. Bullseye on the Ricochet . Bit o simple St Pats humor as that’s how I live n guess this flows thru my fingers.   Always interesting to see how close guesses are here.   where my island is clears out before the bay n large sections of lake so that is fun also. In past a few times last 28 years I hit it right on. Silly icy fun Big Smiles n Keep on Rocken! T            
    • delcecchi
      8 degrees in Rochester this morning.    looking at the 10 day forecast for Cook, not much melting going on out to the end of next week.
    • leech~~
      May 2nd up in Ely?  Not a chance!  May 15th maybe!  
    • chaffmj
      I'll take May 2.  
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