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Ice huts are off...but I would guess there is still a bit of ice...weather has been wierd lately...dips to -5 to -10 at night still. Only open water is at creek mouths and the good old "crap plant outlet pipe". I would guess 10" still left.
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Thank you! Keep me updated ok? It looks like it could be a good opening day for walleye this year? I mean the temps are still cold and hopefully the ice is off at the right time and then spawning will be right after the ice goes. It looks like the weather is back to normal, better than last year where the ice was off early and the whole system was out of whack. Looking forward to the season!!!!!
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It wasn't out of whack where we were. Had a boating mis-hap opening night that made us go in skunked (someone marked a "shoal" with about 30 extra feet of strapping tied to a bouy.. where a marker wasn't needed). We still boated 25 'eyes opening weekend.
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We didn't skunk out last year we caught our share of walleye's. I just like it when the timing of the ice and the spawning is right on schedule you know? I loved the weather last year it was great but would prefer just a little colder that's all. Be careful of those marked shoals lol they bite at times lol.
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The colder weather is not conductive to good fishing on opener. On Nip it generally takes a week or two for the 'eyes to get on the bite. They are pretty sluggish after the spawn. I won't even troll early season, and it's my preferred way to fish that area. Last year we had a warm spring and early ice out, so things happened quicker.
I grew up on the lake. I'll run up to 8km's from camp in the dark duck hunting. No flashlight unless to show other boaters... just ruins your night vision. I know every cut, sand bar, and rock along that stretch of water. We were coming up to a set of narrows where another boat was comign through. There is a bit of a shoal on the south side that traditionally never got marked and nobody had connected with until the water went like 3' below normal a few years ago. Last year it would have been under prbably 4 or 5 feet of water.. but somebody remembered that freak low water year and felt complelled to mark it with a little javex jug with the high water of May . My eyes were watching the other boat, we were still fairly close to the middle of the channel when the prop caught their strapping. There was so much of it that the jug must have drifted towards the channel.. or it was in 15ft of water and they didn't have the "shoal" marked at all, 'cause I was concious of the rock and had no idea what had happened. Boat stopped dead, motor came flying out of the water, I got tossed onto the floor and the girlfriend nailed her back against the front of the boat. She has a high tolerance to pain but cried the whole way back to camp and stayed in bed for 24hrs. I wasn't too happy. The javex jug never went back out all summer. Go figure.
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