thinkin about takin the canoe out on saturday and try fishing out of her for the first time. does anybody know what the water temps are like on the chain or rice or koronis and if the walleyes have come up and finished spawning yet?

we opened last weekend in wisconsin and the water temps were between 40 and 43 degress and we didn't touch a walleye all weekend. granted we fish for bass on opener but we still usually pick up a few male walleyes full of milt but i think the water was just too cold and they havent moved up yet. i am assuming the lakes are warmer around here.

Water temps were 49.8-51 or so degrees on the chain on Sunday. I am expecting the temps to be up around 53 or so by the weekend. I figure it should be a decent bite. My presentation of choice will definately be a jig ands minnow combo. Look shallow near bridges,current areas with drawdowns and isolated rock piles.

I'm liking those temps for trolling cranks too!

And if you troll, you'll get a work out paddling around!!

the eyes are bitting good below the 10th street dam
been out for some cats and manneged to get a few eyes in including a few nice ones

Water temps Tuesday evening on Upper Spunk were 46 - 48 on the lake and 54 in the channel.

Nels

Nels, what time were you on the lake? I was out there from 6-8

I was with my son in the blue Crestliner. We left about that time. Was that you putting in when we came off?

Yep, I tried all of the bays but only the one you were in produced. Where are you going for opener?

Not sure yet. Upper Spunk is on the list but I've never had much luck there for eyes on the opener. How about you?

Not sure either. Like you said, Upper is on the list but i havent had much luck on openers either. I have Pelican, Two rivers & Big Swan on the list also.

Water temps are about 52-56 degrees on the chain as of today. Shoud be a good opener I hope!

i'll probably be puting in at the 22 access, were would be a good place to head with the canoe, should i venture up the sauk or go down into beaver or horeshoe? i've only been on the chain once before and it was with someone else and we just headed up the river under the 23 bridge but didn't catch anything.

I fished Two Rivers a few years back, on a cool rainy opener and only caught a Northern. I thought it was strange that there was only one other truck and trailer at the landing when I put in. (Usually not a good sign).

Good luck and maybe we'll cross paths this weekend.

Nels

Crickets on here lately... My pop and I went to Koronis on opener morning, water temps were between 47-52. 49 being the most common. No walleyes although we gave em a pretty good effort, lots of small crappies and one 8-10 pound northern.

Good luck all, and will be interested to see if others had similar luck- although according to the st.cloud times, horseshoe sounded like pretty good luck there.